Fatemeh Keshavarz holds the Roshan Chair in Persian Studies and directs the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University of Maryland, College Park. Her publications include Lyrics of Life: Sa’di on Love, Cosmopolitanism, and Care of the Self (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), Jasmines and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran (The University of North Carolina Press, 2007), Recite in the Name of the Red Rose: Poetic Sacred Making in Twentieth-Century Iran (The University of South Carolina Press, 2006), and Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (The University of South Carolina Press, 1998). In 2013, Keshavarz was named “poet of the month” by NPR’s Grace Cavalieri, host of The Poet and the Poem.