Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Instructional Professor of Persian at the University of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa (2012) as well as a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Tehran Azad University (2004). She has taught Persian language and linguistics as well as Persian literature and translation at McGill University, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, and Tehran Azad University since 1997. She has published on morphology, psycholinguistics, translation, teaching Persian as a second language, and second language acquisition. She is the author of Processing Compound Verbs in Persian: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Complex Predicates (Leiden and University of Chicago Press, 2014). She has also published four proficiency-based textbooks for Persian, namely The Routledge Introductory Persian Course (1st edition 2010, 2nd edition 2020, with Dominic Brookshaw) and The Routledge Intermediate Persian Course (2012, with Dominic Brookshaw), What the Persian Media Says (Routledge, 2015), and The Routledge Advanced Persian Course (Routledge, 2020). She is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian (2020) and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics (2018, with Anousha Sedighi) and The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation (2022, with Michelle Quay and Patricia Higgins). In addition, she is the translator of The Thousand Families: Commentary on Leading Political Figures of Nineteenth Century Iran, by Ali Shabani (Peter Lang, 2018, with Patricia J. Higgins), Hafez in Love: A Novel by Iraj Pezeshkzad (Syracuse University Press, 2021, with Patricia J. Higgins), and The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation, by Sohrab Sepehri (Brill, 2021, with Prashant Keshavmurthy). She serves as reviewer for International Journal of Iranian Studies, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Sage Open Journal, Frontiers in Psychology, International Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, and LINGUA.

Linguistics

Iranian Studies

Language Acquisition

Middle East/Near East Studies

Pedagogy

Persian

Iran

Islamic World

North America

Bilingualism & Psycholing

Persian Lang & Ling

Second Lang Acquisition

Azeri (intermediate)

English (advanced)

Persian

French (intermediate)