Poetics; Contemporary Iranian linguistics; Arabic and Persian philology; Studies in rhetoric; Kurdish folklore

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Harvard University
• Master of Philosophy (MPHIL) Harvard University 
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) The College of William and Mary

My academic interest is also my life-long learning process and it is in semiotics and the derivative linguistic nuances and cognitive modus operandi of grammar, word, and mannerism in text. Simply put, I read very slow to see why. 

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• University of Virginia (Assistant Professor/tenure-track)     2008-Present
• University of Colorado at Boulder      2007-2008

• Firdowsi's Shahnama
• Rumi's Mathnavi
• Attar's Dicourse of the Birds
• History of Iranian Literature
• Introduction to Classical Persian Literature
• Classical Persian Prose
• Culture of the Persian Speaking World
• Advanced Conversational Persian: An Oral Textual Exegesis (Fall 2012)
• Hell, Paradise, Angst, and Death in Persian literature: An East-West Perspective (Fall 2012)
• Poetics of Existentialist Persian literature (A linguistics cross-listed course/Spring 2013)