Nasrin Askari completed her Ph.D. in 2012 at the University of Toronto. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching fellow in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. She has conducted research at the Bodleian Library, as a Bahari Visiting Scholar in the Persian Arts of the Book, and has presented papers on the interactions of text and image in the Persian arts of the book at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. Her research papers have appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Iranian Studies and Narrative Culture.