Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Senior Faculty Lecturer in Persian Language and Linguistics and Head of the Persian Language Program at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Ottawa (2012) and a PhD in applied linguistics from Tehran Azad University (2004). She has taught Persian language and linguistics as well as Persian literature and translation at McGill University, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, and Tehran Azad University since 1997. She served as President of the American Association of Teachers of Persian in 2018–2020.