About Me

I am a social media scholar and actor, and blogger based in Miami, blogging about my life as an immigrant, graduate school, art, language, and culture. While always finding it tough to find a home discipline or one single job title to stick to, I am currently enjoying my kind of freelance style of career life, doing my Ph.D. in Cultural, Literary, and Linguistic Studies while also acting project-based and writing part-time.

 

My research examines social media from a new media and performance studies perspective. Through the use of digital humanities tools, I explore #metoo in theory and with data from Twitter. As a researcher for Instagram poetry, instapoetry, I study new performative and literary creations born of pop culture on the platform.

 

Do not get surprised! You might scroll down and notice that I have my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical and Process engineering. True! I'm a former engineer and glad to bring my mathematical logic and technical skills, such as coding, to Arts and Humanities.

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As a language freak, I was born and raised in Iran, studied and worked in Europe, mostly in Italy, and I'm currently based in the U.S. as a teaching assistant at the University of Miami, teaching French, Italian and Persian language.

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I am the co-founder of Instasociety, an open-access resource exploring how social media is changing popular culture. For all social media nerds, this is heaven on earth- so check it out by clicking here.