Syeda Maryam Fatima Taqvi is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at the University of California, Riverside, where she pursues an interdisciplinary study of Greek and Arabic literature, with an emphasis on Creative Writing. Her research engages the notion of spiritual exercise investigating how grief and mourning practices facilitate one’s self-cultivation and spiritual transformation across Greek, Arab-Islamic and Persian traditions, with a particular focus on the Twelver Shi’i practices.

Rizvi, Syed Maisam Haider Ali., and Fatima, Syeda Maryam. “Text as a Site of Hermeneutical ‘Possibility’: An Attempt to Explore the Gradational Referentiality and Various Modalities of Hakim Sanai’s Concept of ‘Ishq.” International Journal of Persian Literature. (Accepted for Publication)

Fatima, Syeda Maryam. “Gadamer, Ibn Sina, and Aesthetics of Self-Transformation” Journal of Islamic Philosophy (Under 2nd Phase of Peer-Review Process, 2023)

Fatima, Syeda Maryam et al. “Neural Style Transfer Based Voice Mimicking for Personalized Audio Stories.” Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on AI for Smart TV Content Production, Access, and Delivery (2020).