Professional Activities

Positions

1999 – present Associate Professor in English Literature, Shahid Beheshti University
2017- present Head of English Department
2016 – 2017 Member of The Board of Graduate Studies in The Faculty of Letters and Humanities
2013 – present Admissions Interview for Ph.D. Candidates at Shahid Beheshti University
2012 Conference Chair, Diaspora in Arts & Literature at Shahid Beheshti University
2008 – 2015 Visiting lecturer, Azad University, Tehran
2007- 2011 Head of English Department
2006 – 2008 Visiting lecturer, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran
2003 – 2008 Member of Research Group on Artistic Imagination at Iranian Academy of Arts

Editorial Boards

2008 – present Editorial Board Member, Critical Language and Literary Studies, Shahid Beheshti University
2017 – present Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies, Kurdistan University

Lectures

Lecture on “Shakespeare and Sadi” in Book City: Cultural Center, April 2018.
Lecture on “Shakespeare’s Poetry” Seminar on the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death in Book City: Cultural Center, May 2016.
Lecture on “Arash Dadgar’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet” in Iranian Academy of Arts, Summer 2014.
Lecture on “Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilych,” Andisheh: Cultural Center, Winter 2016.
Lecture on “Shakespeare and Bakhtin” in Book City: Cultural Center, 2013.
Lecture on “Shakespeare’s Comedies and Woody Allen” in Iranian Artists Forum, Summer 2012.

Academic Research Projects

A Concise Dictionary of Contemporary Critical and Philosophical Terms. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University Publishers 2001.
A Comparative Study of Tazieh and Tragedy. Tehran: Shahid Beheshti University Publishers, 2006.