M. R. Ghanoonparvar

Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar (Persian: محمدرضا قانون‌پرور) is a Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, whose expertise includes the works of Simin Daneshvar, Sadeq Chubak, and Sadeq Hedayat.

Later that year, he received a German Language Proficiency Certificate from the Goethe Institute in Germany and then studied English Literature and Sociology at the University of Heidelberg through 1967.

Coming to the USA later that year, he studied Foreign Language Teaching at Saint Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont.

He also organized and served as program chair of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Association for Iranian Studies.

Ghanoonparvar married Diane L. Wilcox, with whom he has translated or co-published – most importantly, "The Fairies" by Ahmad Shamlu (1980).

Ghanoonparvar comes from Esfahan, Iran , home of the Si-o-se Pol (here, 2011)
Ghanoonparvar has spent most of his career at the University of Texas at Austin (here, Battle Hall circa 2014)