About Us

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History

Faculty of Language and Literature is the oldest unit in the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. In 1972, the Iranian Cultural Foundation founded the Research Centre for Iranian Culture in order to train researchers in linguistics, literature, and cultural history. In 1981, a department named Persian Language and Literature was formed in substitution, which continued the researches done by the Iranian Cultural Foundation and afterwards this department changed to a faculty which is now called the faculty of Language and Literature.

This faculty currently has 3 research departments, namely “Interdisciplinary Studies, Theories and Critiques”, “Literary Researches (theoretical, practical, strategic)” and “Translation and Social Applications”.

 

Objective

◈The maintaining ancient texts and preventing their destruction by correcting and adding marginal notes;

◈The preserving ancient Persian language and vocabulary (and their correct use) by compiling dictionaries of ancient and contemporary Persian;

◈The conducting fundamental research in various fields of literature in cooperation with other centres and faculties of literature inside and outside the country;

◈The conducting comprehensive research on contemporary literature namely fiction, drama, humour, poetry, etc.

◈Conducting comprehensive research on standard Persian language to improve and organize the language of mass media;

◈The training experts in above-mentioned fields;

 

Academic research and educational activities

  • The carrying out research projects: 116 completed projects and 16 ongoing projects
  • Lectures: Holding over 67 lectures
  • Workshops and academic sessions: Holding over 108 workshops and sessions
  • Conferences: Holding 67 national and international conferences
  • Book Critique: Holding over 12 sessions of book critiques
  • Poetry reading: holding 7 sessions of poetry reading with students, poets and invited professors
  • Book publishing: Publishing 108 books
  • Articles: 577 articles
  • The holding the PhD course of “Persian language and literature”
  • The publishing journals of “contemporary Persian literature”, “ancient Persian literature”, Afaq Al-Hezarah Al- Islamyah and “interdisciplinary literature and researches”.
Last Update At : 04 December 2023