Nasrin Askari is the author of The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes (Brill, 2016), which received the World Award for Book of the Year in Iran.
From 2020 to 2024, Dr. Askari served as Research Fellow and Translator on the Persian segment of the ERC-funded project Global Literary Theory: Caucasus Literatures Compared, led by Professor Rebecca Gould at the University of Birmingham and later at SOAS, University of London. In this role, she also co-edited the volume Arabic, Persian, and Turkic Poetics: Towards a Post-Eurocentric Literary Theory. Proceedings of the British Academy 266 (Oxford University Press, 2024).
Her critical edition of the Mūnis-nāma, a twelfth-century mirror for princes composed particularly for the women of the Atabegid court of Azerbaijan, was published by the Afshar Foundation in 2022.
Dr. Askari’s articles have appeared in journals such as Iranian Studies, Narrative Culture, Persianate Studies, Iran-namag, Licit Magic: GlobalLit Working Papers, and Islamic Art and Architecture.
As a Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (2015–2016), she conducted extensive research on medieval Persian manuscripts, particularly those containing narrative literature. She has also contributed to the Insight Grant-funded project At the Crossroads of Punjabi and Persian: The Traveling Tale of the Lovers, Hīr and Raṅjhā, led by Professor Anne Murphy.
As a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Askari developed UBC’s first curriculum in Iranian Studies, introducing a series of new courses and establishing the field within the institution.
She completed her PhD with full funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her primary research interests include classical Persian literature and the history and culture of late antique and medieval Iran. Her full list of publications is available on her Academia.edu page.
