Shekoufeh Mohammadi

She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Alicante. She is a researcher at the Hermeneutics Seminar of the Philological Research Institute (IIFL) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a professor at the College of Communication Sciences of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the same university. As a researcher and professor has focused on the applications of semiotics to literature and the arts, with Persian art and culture as her center of study. Her lines of research are literary hermeneutics, hermeneutics of symbols, and cultural hermeneutics. Among her publications are the monographic books: Sintiendo la palabra: contextos lingüísticos y literarios del icono metafórico, Estudio icónico del Shahnamé de Ferdousí: una metáfora de la identidad iraní y Mito, épica e identidad and El presente como metáfora del ayer. She is currently a member of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), the Mexican Society for the Study of Religions (SMER), and the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS).