Professor Amirkhani obtained her PhD in the History and Philosophy of Modern European Art at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom in 2015, and has published articles and catalogue essays on a diverse range of material including: the British conceptual art group Art & Language; the Serbian art activists Grupa Spomenik; and contemporary art from Iran. Before accepting her current appointment, Jordan held lectureships at Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, as well as curatorial positions at The Royal Academy in London and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. In her spare time, Jordan tries to find comfort in a form of utopian pessimism.