Name: Niyosha Keyzad (Co-Founder) Email: niyosha.keyzad@utoronto.ca
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Bio: Niyosha holds a PhD in English and Diaspora and Transnational Studies from the University of Toronto, and an MA in English from McGill University. Her research focuses on diasporic Iranian life writing, literatures of exile and displacement, and theories of space and identity. She has previously served as the Founding President of the Race and Ethnicity Caucus of the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union, and Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee at Massey College, where she was a Fellow. Her work on Scarborough Studies was recognized by the UofT School of Cities, with a Graduate Fellowship Award. Niyosha is a Research Associate at the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and currently teaches critical writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough.