Ashoka University

Nahid Morshedlou is a scholar of Persian language and literature, specializing in classical Persian poetry, Indo-Persian literary traditions, and comparative literary studies. She received her PhD in Persian Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, in 2016. She taught Persian language and literature to postgraduate students at JNU over several academic years (2010–2011 and 2015–2016), focusing on classical texts, literary interpretation, and textual analysis. She also worked for several years in Iran’s Ministry of Education as a Persian language educator and education quality inspector, contributing to curriculum development and the evaluation of educational standards. Her research interests include the literary history of Persian in the Indian subcontinent, classical Persian literature, Indo-Persian cultural exchanges, and comparative literary studies. She is the editor of Kholasat-ul Ansab (Har-Anand Publications, Delhi, 2024) and has published scholarly articles in academic journals on Persian literary history, Sufism, classical poetry, and comparative literature, including studies of Tarikh-e Bayhaqi, the Shahnameh, Amir Khusrau, and Mirza Ghalib. She is currently a member of the faculty at Ashoka University, where she teaches and pursues research in Persian language and literature.