Dr. Amir Irani-Tehrani

Dr. Irani-Tehrani directs the Persian Program and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 2008 from New York University after defending his dissertation titled “Persian Figures in German Letters (1700–1900).” He has taught Persian and German at the United States Military Academy since 2012.

He 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.