Fatemeh Keshavarz

Fatemeh Keshavarz Ph.D. () is an Iranian academic, Rumi and Persian studies scholar, and a poet in Persian and English. She is the Roshan Chair of Persian Studies and Director of the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, since 2012. Previously, she served as a professor of Persian Language and Comparative Literature for twenty years and chair of the department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis from 2004 to 2011.

Over the years, she has published several notable books including ''Reading Mystical Lyric: the Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi'' (1998), ''Recite in the Name of the Red Rose'' (2006) and ''Jasmine and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran'' (2007). As an activist for peace and justice, in 2008, she received the Hershel Walker 'Peace and Justice' Award. Provided by Wikipedia