– Medieval Persian Sufi Poetry
– The concept of pain in Medieval poetry
– Unconventional Love in Medieval poetry
– The concept of beauty in Medieval poetry
– The construction of masculinity and Femininity in poetry
– Postmedievalism
– Modern Middle Eastern women’s literature
– Iranian woman question
– gender and sexuality studies
– Contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern Fiction
– Literary Diaspora and the exiled
– Iranian Cinema
– Medieval English Mystical Literature
– The Theater of the Absurd

Roshan Distinguished Professor of Persian Studies, North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies