Education

Ph.D: Persian Language and Literature, University of Tehran, Iran, 2002

Thesis: Satire in the Constitutional Revolution Period

M.A: Persian Language and Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, 1994

Dissertation: Social Criticism Attitudes in the Ubeyd Zākāni’s Works

B.A: Persian Language and Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran, 1987 

Responsibilities

• Head of the Department of Persian Language and Literature, from 2016 to present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, (KHU), from 2002 to present
• Director of Kharazmi University Publications, from 2013 to 2015
• Text editor of  Journal of Science (KHU), from 2003 to 2013
• Text editor of  Journal of Engineering Geology (KHU), from 2003 to present
• Member of the editorial board of The Quarterly Naghd-e Ketāb-e Adabiyāt, from 2015 to present

Research Interests 

• Lexicography
• Writing and Editing
• Contemporary Persian Poetry
• Iran’s Constitutional Revolution Period
• Sufism
• Satire
• Fiction
• Cinema

Courses

Teaching at the Kharazmi University from 1993

 Ph.D

• Studies in Sufi Texts

M. A.

• Seminar

• Masnavi (Rumi)

B. A.

• Writing and Editing

• Writing Skills

• Methodology of Research
• Classic Poems: Masnavi (Rumi), Hadiqe (Sanāyi), Manteq-ot-Teyr (Attār), Nāser Khosrow’s Odes
• Classic Proses: Kalile va Demne, Qābus-Nāme, Mersād-ol-’Ebād

• Contemporary Persian Poetry

• Contemporary Narrative Poetry

• Didactic prose

• Allegoric Prose

• An Introduction to Persian Literature (for English literature students)

• An Introduction to Contemporary Persian Literature (for English translation students)

• Editing Workshop

Teaching Persian to International Students 

• Writing
• Conversation
• Contemporary Persian Poetry
• An Introduction to Persian Literature Web Sites
• An Introduction to Persian Source Books
• Calligraphy

Teaching at Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela (2011-2012)