Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar, PhD
Associate Professor, Literacy Education
Location
SEC 516
Phone
(319) 273-2564
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Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar, PhD
Associate Professor, Literacy Education
Dr. Taraneh Matloob Haghanikar is an associate professor of literacy education and children’s literature, and as an author of several picture books. Her academic path—from an undergraduate degree in software engineering and a master’s degree in computer science and a second master in English to a Ph.D. in children’s literature demonstrates her commitment to bridging disciplines. This multidisciplinary background enhances both her creative and scholarly work, allowing her to bring a technologically informed perspectives to our literacy program.
Education
- PhD, Reading: Multicultural Children’s literature, Oakland University, MI
- MA, English: Children’s Literature, Kansas State University, KS
- MSc, Computer Based Learning & Training, University of Southampton, UK
- BSc, Computer Science, Sharif University of Technology
Teaching Interests
- Children’s literature
- Multicultural children’s literature
- Integrating theory to practice
- Designing instructional technology
Research Interests
- Currently, my research is focused on using data visualization and artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze fictional YA novels, their diverse characters and the characters' emotional patterns. This work provides a new perspective on reading, reviewing, and analyzing diverse books and offers methods that can easily be applied to literary texts to reveal emotional patterns, stereotypes, and stories’ deeper meanings.
Professional Accomplishments
- Matloob, T. (2025). Dear new friend (Alida Massari, illus.). Red Comet Press.
- Matloob, T. (in press for publication in 2026). An invisible river to cross (Kristen Balouch, illus.). Red Comet Press.
- Matloob Haghanikar, T., & Filatova, E (2024). Sentiment analysis of African American young adult novels: Detecting emotion patterns. The Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults.
- Matloob Haghanikar, T., & Filatova, E. (2023). What emotions do Jason Reynolds’ young adult novels convey? A sentiment analysis. World Journal of Educational Research.
- Matloob Haghanikar, T. (2022). I, Jill Alexander, American girl revolutionary. World Journal of Educational Research, 9(3), 34-42, http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjer.v9n3p34