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

Professor Tabatabai is a scholar of medieval Persian literature. He teaches the first- and second-year Humanities. He is also a writer, poet, translator and editor whose work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Literary Imagination, The Republic of Letters, Seneca 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 licensed coach with the U.S. Amateur Boxing Federation. He likes to swim with the sharks, and was once a brave.