Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi

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Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi's research focuses on second language acquisition and pedagogy, as well as psycholinguistics and Persian literary translation. She teaches Persian language and culture at all proficiency levels as well as Persian media and Persian literary translation. Before joining the University of Chicago, she taught Persian language and linguistics and Persian literature and translation at McGill University (2006‒2021), the University of Oxford (2014‒2015), and Tehran Azad University (1997‒2004). Shabani-Jadidi is an Instructional Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago.