Dr. Amir Irani-Tehrani, Ph.D.

Dr. Amir Irani-Tehrani is an assistant professor and director of the Persian program in the Department of English & World Languages at the United States Military Academy, where he has taught since 2012. He previously taught German courses.

He and earned his doctorate in 2008 from New York University after defending his dissertation titled “Persian Figures in German Letters (1700-1900).” Dr. Irani-Tehrani has published on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s reception in modern Iran; the ghazal as a crossover poetic form from Persian to German; and the life of Bavarian poet August von Platen (1796-1835) as a cadet, officer, veteran, poet, and Persian student. His most recent publication explores the Greek primordial elements in Platen’s Venetian Sonnets, and he continues to work on an English-language monograph about him.

Dr. Irani-Tehrani has served as officer in charge of the International Cadets of West Point Club and continues to act as officer representative for the academy’s Persian Forum and women’s soccer team. He is also a supporter of Liverpool Football Club.