Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate Dr. Anousha Sedighi on her appointment to the rank of Full Professor of Persian and Head of the Persian program at Portland State University in Oregon. Dr. Sedighi founded the Persian program in 2005 and launched the Persian minor, the only minor in the state of Oregon, in 2011. Dr. Sedighi’s areas of research are Persian linguistics, Persian language pedagogy, and Persian as a heritage language. She has published two books, Agreement Restrictions in Persian (Rozenberg & Purdue, 2008), which was re-published in 2011 by Leiden University and the University of Chicago Press, and Persian in Use: An Elementary Textbook of Language and Culture (Leiden University, 2015) for which she received a Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies in 2010.
Persian in Use is an elementary Persian language and culture textbook designed for first-year Persian language students at the college level. It offers a thematically organized and integrative approach to help students achieve proficiency in Persian language and culture. This publication is organized around high-frequency topics and provides a clear set of communication goals for each lesson.
Persian in Use has been re-published for the fourth time since 2015 due to popular demand and is currently used at more than 20 universities in the U.S. as well as internationally in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Canada.