Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate Dr. Samad Alavi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. In August 2014, he was the second recipient of the Rahim M. Irvani Dissertation Award, which recognizes an exceptional Ph.D. dissertation on Persian literature. He was presented with this distinction at the Tenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Alavi’s dissertation, submitted to UC Berkeley in 2013, was entitled “The Poetics of Commitment in Modern Persian: A Case of Three Revolutionary Poets in Iran.”
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate Dr. Samad Alavi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. In August 2014, he was the second recipient of the Rahim M. Irvani Dissertation Award, which recognizes an exceptional Ph.D. dissertation on Persian literature. He was presented with this distinction at the Tenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Alavi’s dissertation, submitted to UC Berkeley in 2013, was entitled “The Poetics of Commitment in Modern Persian: A Case of Three Revolutionary Poets in Iran.”
In addition to teaching courses in Persian language and literature at the University of Washington, Dr. Alavi also serves as Assistant Editor (Literature and Culture) for the Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies and as Executive Secretary of the American Association of Teachers of Persian.