Education

1995 – 1999 Ph.D. in English, Leicester University, UK

Research Topic: “Narratives of Eros and Desire in Shakespeare’s Poetryā€¯

1989 – 1992 M.A. in English Literature, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran (Best Student)
1985 – 1989 B.A. in English Language and Literature, Mashad University, Mashad, Iran (Best Student)

Research Interests

Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory, Trauma Theory, Iranian Diasporic Fiction, Contemporary Drama.