Mojdeh Tarighat

Artist-in-Residence, 7x7x7 Interview Series

Mojdeh Tarighat is an emerging writer of literary fiction and a mathematician. As an artist, Mojdeh explores themes of isolation, shame, and boredom against backdrops including the American South and western academia.

Her forthcoming novel is set in Virginia and questions the myths of this region and the disillusionment it breeds.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mojdeh received her undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. She relocated to Charlottesville to earn her doctoral degree in mathematics. At the University of Virginia, she studies algebraic combinatorics under the guidance of Professor Jennifer Morse. She enjoys sharing her research to wider audiences through talks that knit together basic notions of symmetry, countable sets of discrete abstract objects, and geometry.

Bio courtesy of artist.

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