Elham Etemadi completed her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Art Faculty of Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design (ARUCAD), Cyprus. Her previous affiliations were with the Hunan Normal University in China and Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Iran. Elham’s articles have been published in different academic journals in English, Farsi and Chinese. Her research is positioned at the intersections of Iranian Arts and the early-modern and modern eras, iconology, book illustration, image-text relationships, gender representation and its historical transformation and cultural sociology. She has delivered her work and organized panels at various international conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia.