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Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professorship in Persian and Iranian Studies
Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program
Assistant Teaching Professor
Professor
Director of Modern Hebrew and Israel Studies Program
Latest News
- Farhat G. Ziadeh Distinguished Lectures 2026 Presents Shawkat Toorawa (Yale University) (May 4, 2026)
- A Novel Prize for Persian Translation (August 21, 2023)
- Announcing the Winner of the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize (June 5, 2023)
- Professor Naomi Sokoloff's New Edited Volume, Since 1948 (June 6, 2020)
- On gazel, ethno-geography and desire: Two talks and a short article by Selim S. Kuru (January 6, 2020)
Related Research
- Sex in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul. In: Wiesner-Hanks ME, Kuefler M, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. v. 3. Cambridge University Press; 2024:191-209.
- آریا فانی، خواندن فراسوی مرزها: افغان ها، ایرانی ها و ملی گرایی ادبی، ترجمه علی قاسمی منفرد، نشر شیرازه
- Aria Fani, Kevin L. Schwartz, Samuel Hodgkin, "Pathways to Persotopias," PMLA 139.9 (2024): 299-306.
- "An Uncanny Discourse on Sex and Marriage from the Early Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire," co-written with Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, in Crafting History: Essays on the Ottoman World and Beyond in Honor of Cemal Kafadar edited by Rachel Goshgarian, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, and Ali Yaycıoğlu (Boston: Academic Studies Press 2023)
- "Edebiyatı Dizgeye Getirmek: Köprülü’nün İlk Darbesi Olarak “Türk Edebiyatı Tarihinde Usul" Usulden Yönteme M. Fuad Köprülü'nün Edebiyat Tarihçiliği (İstanbul: VakıfBank KültürYayınları 2023), 17-30.
- Aria Fani and Schwartz, KL. Persianate Pasts; National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century (Special issue), Iranian Studies 55.3 (2022): 603-790.
- Naomi Sokoloff, “The Nazi Beast at the Warsaw Zoo: Animal Studies, The Zookeeper’s Wife and See Under: Love.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, edited by Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner (Palgrave, 2020).
- “The Poet’s Tallit: Prayer Shawls in Poems by Abraham Shlonsky, Yehuda Amichai, Myra Sklarew, and Yehoshua November.” CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly. Winter 2020, pp. 73-89.
- Aguirre- Mandujano, Oscar, "Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court" (2018). PhD Dissertation
- “Israel in Jewish American Literature.” In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Jewish American Literature. Ed. Hannah Wirth. Cambridge University Press, 2015.