Sheiba Kian Kaufman

Sheiba Kian Kaufman

Contact Information

English Instructor
skiankaufman@saddleback.edu
Office Location
BGS 207
School / Office / Department
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Program / Division
English

Biography

Dr. Sheiba Kian Kaufman is a Professor of English at Saddleback College. She is passionate about working with students develop their capacities to grow and communicate as compassionate writers and thinkers in the world. She teaches writing courses on hope and resilience around the world, Shakespeare, and Ethnic Voices in Literature.

Formal Education

  • BA in English from UCLA
  • MST in English from Oxford University, UK
  • Ph.D. in English from UC Irvine

Recent Publications/Presentations

  • "Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama: Hospitable Globalities" (forthcoming with Oxford University Press)
  • "Persian Virtues in the Age of Shakespeare," in Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook, University of Cambridge Press (2023)
  • “Care” in Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, Performance, University of Toronto Press (2022)
  • “Her father loved me, oft invited me”: Staging Shakespeare’s Hidden Hospitality in The Travels of the Three English Brothers in Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange, Routledge Studies in Shakespeare Series (2016)

Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Learning Materials

Professor Sheiba Kian Kaufman's courses utilize zero textbook cost learning materials. This means that the textbooks used are free to students.