I am a postdoc member of the ERC Advance Grant project Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam. I work across Persian Studies, Media History, Memory Studies, and Religious Studies, using methodological tools from cultural analysis, media theory, and philology. My research examines the interaction between Muslim mystical and clerical textual practices, media technologies, and media imaginaries, with a focus on secular-religious dynamics in Iran. My research targets lost, neglected, or silent records, such as premodern manuscripts, digitised newspapers and periodicals, and radio and television repositories. I am particularly interested in developing theoretical knowledge grounded in the rich but under-explored Persian and Arabic milieus – from fiction, poetry, and Sufi literature to photography, periodicals, radio broadcasts, and religious performances. My monograph, Irrationalities in Islam and Media in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2022) offers the first media archaeological perspective on the Iranian context. My second monograph is titled Remembering Khayyam: Episodes of Unbelief in the Reception Histories of Persian Quatrains, and will be published by Gruyter in the first quarter of 2025. The book offers new insights into the interplay of religion, literature, and memory in Iran and challenges the still dominant (neo)Orientalist approach to Iranian intellectual history. 

As a lecturer, I contributed to the Research Master's program in Religious Studies from 2022 to 2023, where I taught "Core Themes in the Study of Religions" and have regularly participated as a guest speaker in the joint UU-UvA course on "Theories and Methods" on the history of photography in Iran. I have also created and performed a lecture performance about Iran's 2022 movement titled Knot, About Iran?! and appeared in a KNAW public lecture on Rumi en de religie van de liefde.