Mehdy Sedaghat Payam

Mehdy Sedaghat Payam received his Ph.D. in experimental print fiction and digital literaturefrom Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand in 2014. While doing his PhD, he learnt about Digital Humanities and was fascinated by new horizons and unique approaches that it offers for literary criticism. In order to introduce digital humanities in the Iranian context, he translated a book about it which was published in 2018 by SAMT publications. When he was
translating that book he realized that he needs to gain more expertise in order to apply quantitative methods for literary analysis of the pre-modern Persian texts. Therefore he decided to come to University of Maryland where world-famous scholars in digital humanities and Persian literature have already started the Persian digital humanities project. Mehdy is a published novelist and his first novel, The Secret of Silence, or Hamlet According to Shakespeare’s Sister was published by Morvarid publications in 2009. He is also an avid tennis fan and play tennis whenever he finds free time.