Scholarly Publications

PhD Dissertation

  • Poetic Inquiry: A Responsive Methodology in Research and Education. 2014. View here.

Refereed Articles in Academic Journals

  •  “Poetic Inquiry: A Responsive Methodology of Research.” The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies 13, no. 2 (2015): 1-14. View and purchase here.
  • “Poetic inquiry and its lyrical potential for research.” In Education 20, no. 2 (2014): 12–20. Read here.
  • “Ecologically-oriented social cohesion and integrity through art/poetry.” The International Journal of Arts Theory and History 8, no. 3 (2014): 29–39. View and purchase here.
  • “Poetic Inquiry as Minor Research.” The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies 10, no. 4 (2013): 1–9. View and purchase here.

 Chapters in Books

  •  “The Poetic Gestalt: Expressing Awe towards the Ontological.” In Poetic Inquiry III: Enchantments of Place!, edited by Alexandra Fidyk, Kedrick James, and Carl Leggo, Vernon Press, 2017. View and purchase here.
  • “A Poetic Inquiry into the Possibilities within the Impossible.” In Poetic Inquiries of Reflection and Renewal, edited by Lynn Butler-Kisber, Mary Stewart, and Sean Wiebe, MacIntyre Purcell Publishing, 2016. View and purchase here.
  • “Towards a New Politics of Recognition: Multiculturalism and Assemblage of Iranian-Canadian Identities.” In Precarious International Multicultural Education: Hegemony, Dissent and Rising Alternatives, edited by Handel Kashope Wright, Michael Singh, and Richard Race, 83–103. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2012. View and purchase here.

Paper Presentation at Scholarly Conferences (Selected)

  • “Collective Life Writing and Literary Métissage”. Presented at the 2016 Investigating our Practices Conference, University of Regina, Regina, February 27, 2016.
  • “The Story of My Journey to Become a Bilingual Creative Writer.” Presented at the 2015 Volunteer Tutor Conference: Building Communication, Regina, October 31, 2015.
  • “Meditations on Names of an Immigrant.” Presented at the 5th International Poetic Inquiry Symposium, Vancouver, October 10, 2015.
  • “Self-censorship and the expression of sexual freedom: A comparative study of Iranian and Canadian communities on Facebook.” Presented at the 8th International Gender and Language Association Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 5–7, 2014.
  • “Responsiveness in poetic inquiry.” Presented at the New Direction of Research in Humanities Conference, Madrid, Spain, June 11–13, 2014.
  • “Rescuing Social Cohesion and Integrity through our Lyrical Co-breathing with Mundane in Poetry.” Presented at the Arts in Society Conference, Budapest, Hungary, June 24–27, 2013.
  • “Inviting the Lyrical Back into the Play of our Educational Practices.” Presented at the Investigating our Practices Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 11, 2013.
  • “Poetic Inquiry as Minor Research: A New Direction of Research.” Presented at the New Direction of Research in Humanities, Montreal, July 14–16, 2012.
  • “Poetic Inquiry as Ethical Responsiveness.” Presented at the 3rd International Poetic Inquiry Symposium, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, England, October 20–23, 2011.
  • “Towards a New Politics of Recognition: Multiculturalism and the Assemblage of Persian-Canadian Immigrant Identities.” Presented at the Association of Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, July 3–7, 2008.