Education

PhD, Iranian Studies, UCLA
MA, Iranian Studies, UCLA
BA, English, UCLA

Research

  • Women in pre-modern Persian epic romance poetry
  • Gender, liminality, and agency in pre-modern Persian epic
  • Women poets of Greater Iran
  • Literary translation
  • Heritage learners’ language acquisition
  • Persian language pedagogy

Publications

Articles

“Literary Imitation in Three Poems Attributed to Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn,” HAWWA: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 21, 2023 [forthcoming].

Honors & Awards

Award for Excellence in Teaching, The University of Oxford’s Reward & Recognition Scheme (2018 and 2019)

Courses

  • Accelerated Elementary Persian for Heritage Students (Iranian-20 ABC)
  • Intermediate Persian (Iranian-102 ABC)
  • Advanced Persian (Iranian-103 ABC)