Other Publications

Book Chapters

“Persian as a Diasporic Language in the United States: A Survey of Heritage Persian Learners at College level”, in Sedighi (ed.), Iranian and Minority Languages at Home and in Diaspora, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022, 361-386.                                                                                                              

Persian as a Heritage Language”, in Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (eds), Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Oxford University Press (2018).

“Teaching Persian to Speakers of other Languages” (co-authored with Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi) in Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (eds), Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics. Oxford University Press (2018).

Articles

“Teaching Persian to Heritage Speakers”. Journal of Iranian Studies. Routledge Publications. 2010. 43: 5, 681-695

“Do Psychological Constructions in Persian Involve Complex Predicates?” Rice Working Papers in Linguistics. 2009, 1: 65-78.

"Psychological Constructions and Super High Applicatives in Persian”. Cahier Linguistic d’Ottawa. 2007, 35: 137-160. 

"Animacy: The Overlooked Feature in Persian”. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association Conference". 2005. 1-12

Invited Edited Articles

On the Persian Wedding Invitation Genre, Maryam Sharif & Lotfollah Yarmohammadi, Sage Open, 2013

Pedagogical Materials

Content Based Instructional Materials (Superior and Advanced levels) created for the CBI Path project of the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University (2015)

Cyrus the Great and the First Declaration of Human Rights

Modernism and Sexuality in Iran

Traditional Iranian Sport

Translation: Histories and Theories

Translation: Histories and Theories II

Content Based Instructional Materials (Superior & Advanced levels) created for the “On-line Modules for Less Commonly Taught Languages (OLMO_LCTL) project of the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Portland State University (2017)

Assessment Tools

Co-designer of the Computerized Assessment of Persian Proficiency as part of the “Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency”. A joint project of the Center for Applied Second Language Studies at University of Oregon and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, (2007-2008)

Translations 

Translation of Forough Farrokhzad’s poem, "The Wind-up Doll" from Persian into English. Oregon Literary Review. Vol. 3, No 2. Summer/Fall 2008.