Alireza Rayat Hassanabadi

Alireza Rayat Hassanabadi is a poet, author, and literary critic, specializing in avant-garde Persian poetry. He holds a Ph.D. in Persian Language and Literature from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran. His doctoral dissertation, focused on analyzing the role of power institutions in the historical trajectory of the Poetry of Volume (shiʿr-i hajm) Manifesto. During his postdoctoral research, in collaboration with Dr. Hassan Zolfaghari, he studied Persian folk plays. 

Rayat Hassanabadi serves as the director of the Future of Dreams (Āyandah-ʾi Rawyā) Research Group in Abbasabad, Damghan, and is a representative of the Persian Language Teaching Center for Non-Persian Speakers at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in the Damghan region. He has taught specialized courses in modern Persian poetry and has acted as an expert reviewer for leading academic journals, including Faslʹnāmah-ʾi Naqd-i Adabī (Literary criticism, Tarbiat Modarres University), Justārʹhā-yi Nuvīn-i Adabī (New literary inquiries, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad), Būstān-i Adab (Shiraz University), and Adabiyyāt-i Pārsī-i Muʿāsir (Contemporary Persian literature, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies). In addition to his literary expertise, he is proficient in applying statistical analysis in literary research. 

His extensive research and publications cover diverse aspects of modern Persian poetry, stylistics, intertextuality, and discourse analysis. Among his numerous articles, notable works include “Naqsh-i rasānah dar hayāt-i tārīkhī-i guftimān-i shiʿr-i hajm” (The role of media in the historical life of the discourse of the poetry of volume), published in Būstān-i Adab, and “Tahlīl-i guftimān-i shiʿr-i hajm va shiʿr-i inqilāb-i islāmī” (Discourse analysis of the poetry of volume and the poetry of the Islamic Revolution), published in Būstān-i Adab. His books include Understanding Volume Poetry (Tehran: Rūzgār, 1403/2024), Rubāꜥī – Frāktāl (Quatrain – Fractal, Tehran: Tajrubah-ʾi Naw, 1391/2012), and Hajmʹgirāʾī va qudrat (Volume-oriented poetry and power, Tehran: Khāmūsh, 1399/2020). 

Contributions

Tāhirah Saffārʹzādah’s Tanīn dar diltā and the Avant-Garde Poetry in Persian Literature

Introduction Tāhirah Saffārʹzādah (1938–2008) stands as a distinctive and transformative figure in modern Persian literature. Known for her revolutionary and…