Expertise:

Nineteenth-century English literature; Medieval Persian poetry; Empire and colonialism; Iranian Studies; Translation studies

Language(s) spoken:

English, Persian (Farsi)

Professional associations:

PhD

My research centres on Anglo-Iranian literary exchanges, with a particular focus on how medieval Persian poetry was received and reinterpreted by nineteenth-century British writers. I work at the intersection of comparative literature, translation studies, and postcolonial studies to understand how literary meaning and form travelled across cultures.

My first book, The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), offers a comprehensive framework for understanding how historical, intellectual, and political entanglements shaped British engagements with Persian literary traditions. I am currently completing my second book, a critical edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Bird-Parliament, his translation of Attar’s Mantiq ul-Teyr, for Oxford University Press. My next book project is a study of the global circulation of the Rubáiyát in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, exploring the book’s impact across Oriental scholarship, translation practices, and fin-de-siècle literary culture.

I have written on literary and historical figures such as Firdausi, Khayyam, Attar, Jami, as well as Edward FitzGerald, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, and Edward Byles Cowell, and engaged with broader contexts of Anglo-Iranian relations, the cultural politics of empire, and evolving forms of literary Orientalism. My articles have appeared in Essays in Criticism, The Review of English Studies, Translation and Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, Iranian Studies, and elsewhere.

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