Sassan Tabatabai
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Boston University

Sassan Tabatabai is a scholar of medieval Persian literature. He teaches the first and second year humanities at the Core Curriculum. Professor Tabatabai is also a writer, poet, translator and editor whose work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Literary Imagination, The Republic of Letters, Senecca Review and Leviathan Quarterly. He is Senior Editor of The Republic of Letters and for the past two years has acted as the faculty advisor for the Core Journal, the annual literary journal of the Core Curriculum. Other than his interest in academia, professor Tabatabai is an avid scuba diver who has experience diving with sharks. Also a former amateur boxer, he is currently a licenced coach with the U.S. Amature Boxing Federation. Click here to view a photo from his youth.

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