Iran's Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi

Her critical monograph A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (Oxford University Press, 2021) is the first comprehensive study of the intersection of poetry and politics in post-revolutionary Iran. She has published articles and book chapters on poetry, patronage, and politics in the Iranian context. Fatemeh is interested in the evolution of poetry and patronage in the Persian literary tradition and the representation and transformation of this relationship in modern Iran. Her academic work focuses on the intersection of literature, politics, and society. Before joining Penn, she has taught Persian language and literature in various academic institutions including University of Oxford, University of SOAS and Courtauld Institute of Art in the United Kingdom.

in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford, Wadham College. Boroujerdi has been President of the Association for Iranian Studies, a fellow of the American Council on Education, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting scholar at UCLA, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute (Washington, D.C.), and a Co-PI of Iran Data Portal.įatemeh Shams is a poet and specialist in Persian literature. Previously he was Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, and before that professor of political science at Syracuse University.īoroujerdi is the author or co-author of four books: Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook (Syracuse University Press, 2018), Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft (Syracuse University Press, 2017) Tarashidam, Parastidam, Shikastam: Guftarhay-i dar Siyasat va Huvyiyat-i Irani (I Carved, Worshiped and Shattered: Essays on Iranian Politics and Identity)(Cambridge, 2022) and Iranian Intellectuals and the West: Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse University Press, 1996). Mehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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Iran's Troubled Modernity by Ali Mirsepassi