Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is delighted to welcome Professor Mohamad Navid Bazargan to the faculty of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, starting fall 2015. He will hold the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in the area of Persian literature and culture.
Professor Bazargan has been an Assistant Professor of Persian Literature at Tehran Azad University since 2005. During this time, he has served on the academic Boards of The Great Encyclopedia of Islam, The Encyclopedia of the Persian Language, and as editor of Journal of Culture and Literature at Azad University in Roudehen. He was a Visiting Scholar at California State University of Northridge from 2013 to 2014. Dr. Bazargan’s scholarship spans canonical texts such as the Shahnameh and the Masnavi. And, his studies, talents and personal involvement in modern literature, painting and calligraphy greatly enrich his work.
