Bio/Research
I teach courses on Persian literature and language (classical and modern), medieval Islamic thought and literature, Islamic mysticism, Iranian cinema, and translation history and theory. I currently serve as the Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), and have...
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Bio/Research
I teach courses on Persian literature and language (classical and modern), medieval Islamic thought and literature, Islamic mysticism, Iranian cinema, and translation history and theory. I currently serve as the Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), and have affiliations with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Committee on Medieval Studies; the program in Fundamentals: Issues and Texts,and the Islamic Studies Program at the Divinity School. I studied Near Eastern Studies at Berkeley (with Ira Lapidus, William Brinner, Hasan Javadi, Mahmoud Omidsalar, Jaleh Pirnazar, Joseph Zeidan, Shibley Telhami) and at the University of Chicago (under Heshmat Moayyad, Jaroslav Stetkevych, John Perry and Fazlur Rahman), and taught previously at Emory University’s Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (1997-2005), and also served as president of the American Institute of Iranian Studies (2002-2012).
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