
Âzar Renani holds a PhD in French Language Teaching (Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, 2016; PhD recognised by NOVA University Lisbon), a Master’s degree in Language and Subject Teaching, specialising in French as a Foreign, Second and Mother Tongue (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 2017), and a Master’s degree in French Literature (University of Tehran, 2010), after completing a Bachelor’s degree in the same field (2007).
Between 2021 and 2025, she was an Invited Assistant Professor at the Universidade Aberta, an experience that reinforced her research in digital and distance learning. Since 2019, she has been a Lecturer at NOVA FCSH in Lisbon, having previously been a Lecturer at the University of Évora (2017–2018). She is a integrated member of the research group Le@D (Universidade Aberta), participating in the El@n — Online Language Teaching project. Her areas of research include FLE didactics, the use of Francophone literature and culture in language teaching, discourse analysis, semiotics — namely the semiotics of passions — and digital humanities.