Ehsan Ghabool

 Dr. Ehsan Ghabool is an Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature and has been a faculty member at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad since 2011. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of comparative literature and Persian language and literature education. He has authored ten volumes on innovative approaches to Persian language instruction and has published over fifty scholarly articles in his areas of expertise. His series Modern Persian Language Instruction was recognized in 2023 by Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology as one of the leading contributions to Persian language education.

From 2009 to 2021, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Al-Dirasat al-Adabiyya, a long-standing and well-regarded academic journal published by the Lebanese University. Between 2008 and 2012, he was a visiting professor in Lebanon, where he taught at the Lebanese University, Saint Joseph University, and the University of Kaslik. Upon returning to Iran in 2013, he founded the Persian Language Teaching Center for Non-Persian Speakers at Ferdowsi University and served as its director until 2018. From 2018 to 2022, he held the position of Director of International Academic Collaboration at Ferdowsi University. During this period, he organized five international conferences on comparative literature and Persian language and literature education. He currently serves as the head of the Persian Language and Literature Education Committee at the Society for the Promotion of Persian Language and Literature (Iran) and also oversees its international affairs.

Since 2020, Dr. Ghabool has been a visiting professor at Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. In 2021, he also taught Persian online at the University of Oxford. He has supervised and advised more than fifty MA and PhD theses and regularly teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral-level courses at Ferdowsi University. His international engagements include organizing workshops and presenting at academic conferences in countries such as Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Russia, India, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Oman, and Tunisia.

Contributions

Nayyirah Saʿīdī, a Poet in Search of Women’s Rights

Introduction One significant outcome of Iran’s encounter with Western thought, beginning in the early 14th/20th century, was the emergence and…