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  • Hessam Dehghani

    Assistant Professor of Teaching | Persian Language and Culture
    hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca 
    (604) 822 – 4619 

    About Hessam: Hessam Dehghani is an educator with dual PhDs: one in Linguistics from Allameh Tabatabai University (2011) and another in Philosophy from Boston College (2019).

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  • Alexandra Hoffmann

    Assistant Professor | Classical Persian Literature and Culture
    alexandra.hoffmann@ubc.ca

    About Alexandra: I am a scholar of Classical Persian Literature interested in gender & sexuality, embodiment, the history of emotions, and race/ethnicity in premodern Persianate literature and Perso-Islamicate culture.

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  • Mostafa Abedinifard

    Assistant Professor | Modern Persian Literature and Culture
    m.abedinifard@ubc.ca
    604 822 4710
    Personal Website

    About Mostafa: : Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard is an Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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  • Hasan Zahid Siddiqui

    Assistant Professor
    hasan.siddiqui@ubc.ca

    About Hasan: : Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history.

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  • Hessam Dehghani

    Assistant Professor of Teaching | Persian Language and Culture
    hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca 
    (604) 822 – 4619 

    About Hessam: Hessam Dehghani is an educator with dual PhDs: one in Linguistics from Allameh Tabatabai University (2011) and another in Philosophy from Boston College (2019).

    Research Area

  • Alexandra Hoffmann

    Assistant Professor | Classical Persian Literature and Culture
    alexandra.hoffmann@ubc.ca

    About Alexandra: I am a scholar of Classical Persian Literature interested in gender & sexuality, embodiment, the history of emotions, and race/ethnicity in premodern Persianate literature and Perso-Islamicate culture.

    Research Area

  • Mostafa Abedinifard

    Assistant Professor | Modern Persian Literature and Culture
    m.abedinifard@ubc.ca
    604 822 4710
    Personal Website

    About Mostafa: : Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard is an Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.

    Research Area

  • Hasan Zahid Siddiqui

    Assistant Professor
    hasan.siddiqui@ubc.ca

    About Hasan: : Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history.

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