Education

• Ph.D., Program of Iranian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures (NELC), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2020
• M.A., Program of Iranian Studies, Dept. of NELC, UCLA, 2011
• B.A., Department of English, UCLA, 2008

Research

• Early classical Persian epic poetry
• Women in classical and early modern Persian poetry
• Woman poets of Greater Iran

Honors & Awards

• Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship
• Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship in Arabic
• Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies

Fields of Interest

• Women in premodern Persian literature
• Early-modern and modern women poets of Persian
• Literary translation
• Persian language pedagogy
• Heritage language pedagogy