Annahita Farudi is a 2003 alumna of the University of Virginia, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature and linguistics. She received an M.Phil. with overall distinction in theoretical linguistics from the University of Oxford in 2005. Ms. Farudi is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition to her interests in syntactic theory, formal semantics, and the Iranian languages, she is an avid student of classical as well as contemporary Persian literature.

 

Maziar Toosarvandani was graduated in 2003 from the University of Virginia, where he received a Bachelor of Science with highest distinction in linguistics and biology. His undergraduate thesis was entitled Vowel Length in Modern Farsi. Mr. Toosarvandani now attends the University of California, Berkeley, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics. His interests fall largely in the areas syntax (the study of sentence structure) and semantics (the study of meaning). In addition to working on Farsi and Dari, he works on the Mono Lake variety of Northern Paiute, a language of eastern California.