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Nahid Ahmadian
University of Maryland
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Department of English, 2102 Tawes Hall
College Park MD 20742
United States
ABOUT
Nahid is doing her second Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. She obtained her first Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Tehran where she taught English and world literature for 10 years. Nahid is the author of 15 articles in comparative literature and drama, and the translator of 4 books in western philosophy and drama. She has taught World Literature and Persian Literature in Translation at the University of Maryland. Nahid has served as a researcher in the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, and as a reviewer in a Tehran-based scholarly journal Theatre Quarterly. Passionate about Persian drama, she is focused on dramatic productions of Iran in the 1980s and 1990s for her dissertation.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
Comparative
Persian
Theater
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Specialties
Modern Iranian Theater And Dramatic Literature
Languages
English (fluent)
Persian (native)
Azeri (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2012 | English | University of Tehran
MA | 2007 | English | University of Tehran
BA | 2004 | English | University of Tehran
Abstracts
Method and Formation in Iranian Theater Histories