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Mehdy Sedaghat Payam

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Graduate Student, Comparative Literature, English
Graduate Assistant, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Graduate Assistant, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

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Education

Ph.D., English, Victoria University of Wellington

Mehdy Sedaghat Payam received his Ph.D. in experimental print fiction and digital literaturefrom Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand in 2014. While doing his PhD, he learnt about Digital Humanities and was fascinated by new horizons and unique approaches that it offers for literary criticism. In order to introduce digital humanities in the Iranian context, he translated a book about it which was published in 2018 by SAMT publications. When he was
translating that book he realized that he needs to gain more expertise in order to apply quantitative methods for literary analysis of the pre-modern Persian texts. Therefore he decided to come to University of Maryland where world-famous scholars in digital humanities and Persian literature have already started the Persian digital humanities project. Mehdy is a published novelist and his first novel, The Secret of Silence, or Hamlet According to Shakespeare’s Sister was published by Morvarid publications in 2009. He is also an avid tennis fan and play tennis whenever he finds free time.

Publications

"Internet and Digital Textuality: A Deep Reading of 10:01.”

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

English

Author/Lead: Mehdy Sedaghat Payam
Dates:

Ed. Joseph Tabbi. London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2018. (Winner of 2018 Katherine N. Hayles Prize for Critical Writing).

"Digital Editions and Materiality, a Media specific Analysis of the First and the Last Edition of Michael Joyce’s Afternoon"

Advances in Digital Scholarly Editing

English

Author/Lead: Mehdy Sedaghat Payam
Dates:

Eds. Peter Boot et al. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2017

"A Window Toward the Medium: A Media Specific Analysis of Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales"

Journal Article, Digital Studies/Le Champ Numerique

English

Author/Lead: Mehdy Sedaghat Payam
Dates:

Published by Canadian Society of Digital Humanities (2016).

Visible and Invisible Medium; a Comparative Analysis of the Role of Medium in Print Novels”

Journal Article

English

Author/Lead: Mehdy Sedaghat Payam
Dates:

Biannual Interpretive Comparative Journal of Language and Literature (2015)

Secret of Silence; Hamlet According to Shakespeare's Sister (A Novel)

Tehran

English

Author/Lead: Mehdy Sedaghat Payam
Dates:

Morvarid Publications (2009).