I am a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Studies with a concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies at McGill University. I hold a master’s degree in the History of Iran from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. My research lies at the intersection of education, storytelling, and imagination in the premodern Islamicate world. Currently, I focus on educational folktales in nineteenth-century Iran, a period marked by profound transformations in gender roles and sexual sensibilities.

My academic interests include the history of nineteenth-century Iran; the history of education in the Islamicate world; the history and theories of imagination; gender and sexuality studies; folktales and storytelling traditions; educational texts; and anthropological approaches to imagination and folktales.