Short Curriculum Vitae
I earned my B.A. in English Language and Translation from Isfahan University, Iran, followed by an M.A. in Corpus Linguistics (with distinction) from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. I later completed my Ph.D. in English Translation Studies at Leipzig University, Germany.
Research Interests
My primary area of interest is Corpus Linguistics, particularly the design and use of corpora to investigate systematic patterns of language in different registers and contexts. I am keen to explore how corpus-based methodologies can contribute to related fields such as Translation Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics, and the study of Discourse Markers. In my work, I employ both large-scale and specialized corpora to examine issues including translation equivalence, discourse organization, stance-taking, and cohesion. I am also interested in combining corpus evidence with perspectives from Critical Discourse Analysis to understand how language both reflects and constructs social realities, while linking these findings to applied domains such as pedagogy, translation practice, and cross-cultural communication.
Teaching Experience
| WS25/26 |
„ History of the English Language, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany “. |
| 2025 to date |
„ English Language Instructor, Gesamtschule mit gymnasialer Oberstufe Woltersdorf der FAWZ, Brandenburg, Germany “. |
| 2023-2025 |
„English for Specific Purposes Teacher, Private Fachschule für Wirtschaft und Soziales, Thüringen, Germany“. |
| 2006-2010 |
„ English Language Instructor, Sedaqat Language Institution, Iran“. |
Publications
Books
| 2025 |
„ New Frontiers in Corpus based Persian Language Studies: Challenges, Innovations and Applications: An Edited Volume Accepted for Publication: Springer nature“. |
| 2024 |
„ Hayek, Mill and Liberal Tradition, translated into Farsi Logos Publications, Iran“. |
| 2023 |
„ Corpora and Translation: Methods, Concepts and Applications (Written in Farsi) Logos Publications, Iran“. |
| 2022 |
„ Writer-reader Interaction by Metadiscourse Features: English-Persian Translation in Legal and Political Texts Frank & Timme, Germany “. |
| 2021 |
„ Doing Corpus Linguistics, translated into Farsi Logos Publications, Iran “. |
| 2019 |
„ English Practical Words, Iran“. |
Book Chapters
| 2025 |
„ How is Interaction Constructed in Academic Discourse: A Corpus-based Study of Metadiscourse Features in English and Persian Languages
Handbook of Persian Discourse Studies (Springer)“. |
| 2025 |
„ Assessing Collocational Errors of Russian Learners of Persian: A Learner Corpus-based Research
New Frontiers in Corpus-based Persian Studies (Springer)“. |
| 2025 |
„ Textual Functions and Underspecification of Metadiscourse Features in Translation: A Parallel Corpus-based Investigation of English and Persian Languages
New Frontiers in Corpus-based Persian Studies (Springer)“. |
| 2023 |
„ Interaction in Translation: A Parallel Corpus-based Investigation of English- Persian Languages
Zukunftsformate Fachkommunikationsforschung (Frank and Timm)“. |
| 2021 |
„ Writer-reader Interaction in Written Discourse: A Comparative Corpus-based Investigation of Metadiscourse Features in English and Persian Academic Written Genre
Perspectives on Academic Persian (Springer)“. |
| 2016 |
„ Validation of Waddington's TQA Model for Assessing Translation Quality of Iranian EFL Learners
Fachkommunikation im Fokus: Paradigmen, Positionen, Perspektiven (Frank & Timm Publications)“. |
Full-length Papers
| 2025 |
„ How Trends and Topics Reflect the Evolution of Translation Studies as an Academic Field of Study, Language Related Research Journal “. |
| 2025 |
„ Translators’ General Health in Relation with Loneliness and Social Disconnectedness: An Overlooked Occupational Concern in Iran: Health Scope Journal “. |
| 2023 |
„ Dynamicity of interaction in academic discourse: Evidence from a corpus-based study: Forum for Linguistic Studies Journal“. |
| 2022 |
„ The Function and Translation of the Thetical “You know”: A Parallel Corpus-based Study of English and Persian Corpora Journal“. |
| 2022 |
„ Gender Identity in Social Media: A Corpus-based Study of Metadiscourse Features: Corpus Linguistics Research“. |
| 2022 |
„ Collaborative Translation or Fruitful Partnership between: Translator and Author: An Overlooked Point International Journal of Language and Translation Research “. |
| 2022 |
„ Unpacking the Function(s) of Discourse Markers in Academic Spoken English: A Corpus-based Study: Australian Journal of Language and Literacy“. |
| 2021 |
„ Social Isolation and Disconnectedness in Translators: An Overlooked Occupational Concern: A Letter: International Journal of Language and Translation Research“. |
| 2021 |
„ Writer-reader Interaction in Written Discourse: A Parallel Corpus based Investigation of English-Persian Translation of Metadiscourse Features in Legal and Political Texts: Ph.D. Abstract New Voices in Translation Studies“. |
| 2021 |
„ Teleworking Translators during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Social and Personal Experiences in Focus: New Voices in Translation Studies“. |
| 2021 |
„ Speaker-Audience Interaction in Spoken Political Discourse: A Contrastive Parallel Corpus-Based Study of English-Persian
Translation of Metadiscourse Features in TED Talks Corpus Pragmatics “. |
| 2021 |
„ Corpora and Translation Studies: Implications and Applications Journal of Language and Translation “. |
| 2020 |
„Translating Metadiscourse Features in TED Political Talks: A Parallel Corpus-based Investigation of Semantic Underspecification in English and Persian: Language & Translation Studies Journal“. |
| 2020 |
„Metadiscourse in Academic Written and Spoken English: A Comparative Corpus-Based Inquiry, Research in Language“. |
| 2019 |
„Teaching Metadiscourse Features and IELTS Writing Performance of Iranian EFL learners: A Learner Corpus-based Perspective: Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education “. |
| 2019 |
„The Impact of Teaching Specialized Terminology on Translation Performance: A Corpus-based Inquiry on Law Texts Translation from English into Persian: Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education “. |
| 2019 |
„ Relationship Between Novice Vs. Experienced EFL Teacher`s Big Five Personality Traits and Their Ambiguity Tolerance and Risk Taking: Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education “. |
| 2019 |
„ Implicit vs. Explicit Reading Comprehension Skills and Translation Quality of Iranian Undergraduate Students: An Experimental Comparative Study: Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education“. |
Book Reviews
| 2025 |
„ Usage in Second Language Acquisition: Critical Reflections and Future Directions, Journal of Researches in Linguistics, Iran “. |
| 2025 |
„ Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis
Discourse and Communication, Sage Publications, The UK “. |
| 2024 |
„ Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age. Recent advances and explorations
Meta Journal of Translation Studies, University of Montréal, Canada “. |
| 2023 |
„ Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change: Theory, Innovations: Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier)“. |
| 2023 |
„ Institutional Translation and Interpreting: Assessing Practices and Managing for Quality, New Voices in Translation Studies Journal“. |
| 2023 |
„ New Perspectives on Corpus Translation Studies New Voices in Translation Studies Journal“. |
| 2023 |
„ Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes Corpus Pragmatics Journal (Springer)“. |
| 2023 |
„ Understanding Corpus Linguistics Corpus Pragmatics Journal (Springer)“. |
| 2023 |
„ Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style: Challenges and Opportunities
Meta Journal of Translation Studies, University of Montréal, Canada“. |
| 2023 |
„ Discourse Markers in Interaction: From Production to Comprehension
Corpus Pragmatics Journal (Springer)“. |
| 2023 |
„ Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and interpreting: Linking Linguistic Approaches with Socio-cultural Interpretation
Discourse & Communication (Sage Publication, The UK)“. |
| 2023 |
„ Corpus Linguistics and Translation Tools for Digital Humanities: Research Methods and Applications
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Oxford University Press, The UK) “. |
| 2023 |
„ Corpora in Applied Linguistics
Corpus Pragmatics Journal (Springer)“. |
| 2022 |
„ Corpus-based Translation and Interpreting Studies in Chinese Context: Present and Future
International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Wiley Publications, The USA)“. |
| 2022 |
„ The Rise of Discourse Markers: Journal of Discourse and Communication (Sage Publications, The UK)“. |
| 2022 |
„ Metadiscourse in Digital Communication: New Research, Approaches and Methodologies
European Journal of Communication (Sage Publications, The UK)“. |
| 2022 |
„ The Qur’an, Translation and the Media: A Narrative Account Narrative Inquiry (John Benjamins Publications, The UK)“. |
| 2022 |
„ Form, Meaning and Function in Collocation: A Corpus Study on Commercial Chinese-to-English Translation
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (Johan Benjamins Publications, The UK)“. |
| 2021 |
„ Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis
International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Wiley Publications, The USA)“. |
| 2021 |
„ Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Wiley Publications, The USA)“. |
| 2021 |
„ Corpus-Assisted Translation Teaching: Issues and Challenges
Babel Journal of Translation“. |
| 2021 |
„ Metadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing
TESOL Journal (Wiley Publications, The USA)“. |
| 2019 |
„ Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary: A guide for Research
Journal of Language & Education“. |
| 2018 |
„ Doing Corpus Linguistics
Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching“. |
Conferences/Symposiums
| 2025 |
„ Constructing the Interaction between Writer- reader Interaction: A Parallel Corpus-based Inquiry of English-Persian Languages
English Digital Linguistics Conference, Chemnitz University; Germany“. |
| 2025 |
„ Artificial Intelligence and Medical Translation: Opportunities for Global Health Communication in Perspective
Conference on Translation, Society and Generative AI, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.“. |
| 2023 |
„ Unveiling the Function(s) and Positions of English Discourse markers Now and its Persian Counterpart Hâlâ: A Contrastive Corpus-based Inquiry
International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University, The UK“. |
| 2023 |
„ Textual Functions and Aspects of Underspecification of Discourse Markers in Translation: A Parallel Corpus-based Investigation of English and Persian
International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University, The UK“. |
| 2023 |
„ Metadiscourse Features in Academic Written and Spoken English: A Comparative Corpus-based Study
8th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań: Pozan University; Poland“. |
| 2021 |
„ Topics and Trends in the Evolution of Translation Studies: A Scientometrics Study
18th International TELLSI Conference: Tarbiat Modares University; Iran“. |
| 2021 |
„ Functions of Extra-clausal Constituents: The Case of Discourse Markers in Academic Spoken English
18th International TELLSI Conference: Tarbiat Modares University; Iran“. |
| 2021 |
„ Interaction in Spoken Discourse: A Corpus-based Inquiry of English-Persian Translation of Metadiscourse Features in TED Political Talks
3th Metadiscourse Across Genres Conference (MAG 2021), Universitat Jaume I de Castelló; Spain“. |
| 2021 |
„ Translating Lexical Bundles in Law and Political Genre: A Parallel Corpus-driven Inquiry of English and Persian Languages
Poznan University; Poland“. |
| 2021 |
„ Determining the functions of the discourse marker “you know” through its Persian translation equivalents
Poznan University; Poland“. |
| 2019 |
„ Metadiscourse in Academic Written and Spoken English: A Comparative Corpus- based Inquiry
1st University of Isfahan's International Conference on English Language Studies“. |
Workshops Held
| 2024 |
„ Learner Corpora and Second Language Teaching and Learning
Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology“. |
| 2024 |
„ Annotations Techniques for Corpus Linguistics
Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology“. |
| 2023 |
„ Corpus Linguistics Summer School; Using Sketch engine software
Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology“. |
Affiliations
| 2025 to date |
„ Editorial Board Member of Language Exploration Journal“. |
| 2023 to date |
„ Executive Assistant of Media and Intercultural Communication: A Multidisciplinary Journal“. |
| 2021 to date |
„ Deputy Editor of International Journal of Language and Translation Research (IJLTR)“. |
| 2022 to 2025 |
„ Editorial Board (reviewer) of the Heliyon Journal “. |
| 2022 to date |
„ Learner Corpus Association“. |
M.A Thesis Supervision
| 2025 |
„ Translating Gender-related Stereotypes in English Animated Films Dubbed into Persian: A Corpus-based Study. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.“. |
Certificate and Scholarship Awarded
| May-July2025 |
„ Preparatory Course for Lateral Entry Teachers “
IBB Weiter Mit Bildung Institution, Germany |
| May-July2025 |
„ Digitized Working World, Learning and Working in a Digital Learning Environment“
IBB Weiter Mit Bildung Institution, Germany |
| 2024 |
„ Deutsch C1 Hochschule Language Certificate (telc), Munich, Germany “ |
| 2021 |
„ Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages CELTA“
University of Cambridge, Berlin School of English |
| 2020-2021 |
„ Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) “. |
Workshops Attended
| 2025 |
„ Visualisation of Linguistic Data with R, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany“ |
| 2021 |
„ Fundamental Foundations in Experimental Research in Audiovisual Translation, Iran“ |
| 2019 |
„ Corpus Linguistics Intensive Course, Paris University 8, France “ |
| 2019 |
„ Scientific Databases in Life Sciences, Leipzig University, Germany“ |
| 2017 |
„ SDL Trados Translation Software, Frankfurt, Germany “. |
| 2016 |
„ Data Analysis in Qualitative Research, Leipzig University, Germany “. |
Professional Service
Committee Member at LCRGrad25 (Learner Corpus Research Graduate 2025): Executive Member,Schedule Planner,Panel Chair– Ask Me Anything: Compiling and Analysing Written Corpora
