He holds a PhD from the University of Essex, UK. Dr. Zarei’s publications include Edgar Allan Poe: An Archetypal Reading (2013), a translation into Persian of Ramon Llull’s The Book of the Lover and Beloved (2014), Nature and Nostalgia in the Poetry of Nader Naderpour, co-authored with Dr. Roger Sedarat (2017) and papers on English and Persian literature. Dr. Zarei is currently working on a series of books on modern Persian fiction.