Simin Zargaran

Simin Zargaran is a PhD candidate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. Her research explores feminist pedagogy, diasporic memory, and Iranian cultural history through arts-based and multimodal methods. Her dissertation, Reimagining Kanoon, examines the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on feminist care, cultural production, and children’s art education. Simin’s creative-research projects—including The Body Library of Seeds and Narrating Motherhood in Diaspora: Art as Resistance, Memory, and Feminist Pedagogy—interweave personal narrative, maternal ecology, and visual storytelling. Her work reflects her background as a writer, translator, and artist with more than ten published books in Iran. At Penn State, she teaches and assists courses in art education grounded in feminist and culturally responsive pedagogies. Her scholarship has been presented in national conferences and is part of collaborative digital platforms on transdisciplinary creativity and eco-social justice art.