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Maryam Seyedan
Maryam Seyedan is an Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature at the Languages and Linguistics Center of Sharif University of Technology, where she began her academic career as an Assistant Professor in 2012. At Sharif University, she teaches a range of courses, including Introduction to Persian Language and Literature, Persian Academic Writing, Persian Poetic Meter, Contemporary Persian Literature, and Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh.
She received her PhD in Persian Language and Literature from the University of Tehran in 2010. Her doctoral dissertation, titled Fiction Based on Folk Storytelling in the Qajar Era, reflects her broader research interests in Persian literature, particularly Persian fiction and folklore.
Seyedan is the author of An Introduction to Academic and Official Writing (Tehran: Sharif University of Technology). She has contributed several entries to the Encyclopedia of Persian Language and Literature (Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature), including articles on “Naqqali” (traditional Persian storytelling), “Qawwali,” and “Futuwwa and Futuwwa-namas.” In addition, she has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed Persian academic and literary journals. Some of her notable works include “Neurotic and Psychotic Characters in Gholam-Hossein Sa‘edi’s Fiction,” “The First Signs of Novel Writing in Iran: An Analysis of Hekayat-e Pir va Javan by Naser al-Din Shah,” “Parvaneh as a Governmental Term in Persian Literary and Historical Texts,” and “A Writer with a Talent for Satire: In Memory of Iraj Pezeshkzad.”
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Introduction Classical Persian literature, up until the Constitutional era, is predominantly patriarchal, with women primarily objectified as beloved figures or…
