大象传媒

Dr. Behrang Nabavi Nejad, Visiting Scholar

Dr. Behrang Nabavi Nejad received her PhD in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria (2017) where she also teaches courses on Islamic art and architecture as a sessional instructor. Her doctoral research examines the illustrations of royal manuscripts of the Persian national epics, the Sha虅hna虅ma through an intertextual analysis of the pre-Islamic written sources and contemporary historiographies. Her research proposes three distinctive iconographic categories for the representations of the mythical bird, the Si虅murgh in Persian painting. Behrang is currently preparing her doctoral thesis for publication. She published the second edition of the , as the editor in chief.