دکتر لیدا متین پارسا

• PhD Assistant Professor in English and American Literature

• University Professor

• Writing and Speaking Mock Examiner

• Supervisor of the IELTS Department at Tehran Institute of Technology

• Mock Examiner Trainer

• IELTS Instructor

• Material Developer

• Presenter of TTC (Teacher Training Courses)

• Researcher in the Fields of English and American Literature, Critical Thinking, Cognitive dissonance, and Social / cultural Traumas

WORK EXPERIENCE

● University

Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University at Karaj. (2008-present)

Assistant Professor, Ershad University of Damavand at Tehran. (2009-present)

Lecturer, Islamic Azad University at Tehran Northern Branch. (2011-2012)

Lecturer, Islamic Azad University at Takestan. (2007-2009)

● Institutes

Afarinesh IELTS House. IELTS Speaking Examiner. IELTS Writing Examiner (Scoring, checking, and commenting). IELTS Examiner Trainer. (2012- Present)

Tehran Institute of Technology Alborz Branch. Supervisor and Mock IELTS Examiner in IELTS Department and General English Department. The head of education, teacher trainer, observer, and material developer. (2016- Present)

Simin Educational Association. Supervisor, the head of education and Teacher trainer for General and IELTS courses. (2016- Present)

Private and Public IELTS Instructor (General & Academic) (2002-Present)

Private English Tutor focusing mainly on single Individual IELTS skills. TOEFL courses (ibt) also taught. (2003-present)

Zomar IELTS Center. T.T.C. Trainer and Teacher Educator. Test Developer and head examiner in IELTS Speaking and Writing. Special workshop educator on Writing, Listening and Reading skills of IELTS. (2002- 2009)

Jahad Daneshgahi of Teacher Education University, counselor to the supervisor, material developer, Head IELTS Examiner, IELTS and Advanced courses Teacher, Test Developer. (2001-2010)

Tohid Language Center. Advanced Courses teacher. Materials taught: Mosaic, Discovering Fiction (2005-2008)

English Language teacher: Various Language Institute in Tehran and Karaj including: Kish, Jahad Daneshgahi, Jame Jam, Safir, Iran Canada , College High Way, Sepehr, Shokouh (2000-

PUBLICATIONS                             

1.  “The Power and Identity of the Post-terror Narrators: 9/11 and the Mental Reconstruction of Trauma in Don Dellilo’s Falling Man”. Critical Language and Literary Studies (Academic/Scholarly Journal of the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University). Accepted on July 31, 2019. Published in Vol. 16, No. 23.  

2. “Cognitive Dissonance and Cognitive Huge Leap in Ian McEwan’s Saturday: A Reconstruction of 9/11 Trauma”. Critical Language and Literary Studies (Academic/Scholarly Journal of the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University). To be published in Fall 2020.