Aazam Feiz

Lecturer
Persian Language and literature

Ph.D, University of Florida
Area:
Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Developing Materials for Teaching Persian
Office:
HSSB 3054
Office Hours:
TR 12:00 - 1:00 pm and by appointment
Time Period: Fall 2023
Email:
afeiz@religion.ucsb.edu

About:

Aazam Feiz teaches courses in Persian Language and Literature at UCSB.  She has a Ph.D. in  Linguistics from the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where her dissertation received the Distinguished Threadgill Award. She also obtained a certificate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) from the University of Florida.

Her research focuses on Structures of Persian Language, Psycho-linguistics,  and Second Language Acquisition. Her interest in the field of  Psycho-linguistics is in language processing, eye tracking, and subject-verb agreement. Her current project in Second Language Acquisition is developing a textbook for teaching the Persian language.

Articles:

Object attraction effects during subject-verb agreement in Persian

A Feiz, W Cowles – Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018

Courses Taught:

RGST 57A (Elementary Persian I)

RSST 57B (Elementary Persian II)

RGST 57C (Elementary Persian III)

RGST 58A (Intensive Elementary Persian I)

RGST 58B (Intensive Elementary Persian II)

RGST 58C (Intensive Intermediate Persian I)

RGST 58D (Intensive Intermediate Persian II)

RGST 158E (Intensive Advanced Persian I)

RGST 158F (Intensive Advanced Persian II)

RGST 157 CP (Contemporary Persian Literature & Translation)

RGST 157 PP (Classic Persian Literature & Translation)

RGST 157G (Persian Cinema)

RGST 157I (Persian Media)

RGST 157J (Persian Translation)