Kamran Talatoff

Kamran Talatoff is a writer and translator of Iranian descent, based in the United States of America. He graduated from the University of Tehran, the Texas A & M University and the University of Michigan. As of 2008, he holds a professorship for Persian Language and Literature and Iranian culture at the University of Arizona.

Bibliography

Talatoff's works focus on Persian literature and culture and on social and cultural factors of Persian literature, as well as on language learning. His publications include:

*The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000; Paperback Edition in 2000. [Siyasat-e Nevisandegi: Tarikhche-ye Adabiyat-e Novin-e Farsi]
*Essays on Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry, edited, introduction, contributions by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and Kamran Talattof. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
*The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric, edited, introduction, and major contributions by K. Talattof and J. Clinton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
*Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and Fundamentalist Thought, edited, introduction, and translated texts by M. Moaddel and K. Talattof. New York: St. Martin Press, 2000. Also published as: Modern and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam: A Reader. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
*Modern Persian: Spoken and Written (Volume I and Volume II), by D. Stilo, K. Talattof, and J. Clinton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
*Modern Persian Audio CD materials. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005, peer-reviewed. This is part of Modern Persian: Spoken and Written, containing audio materials for elementary Persian courses.
*Dialogues in Elementary Modern Persian, A Video/DVD, approximately 40 Minutes of film plus versions with Persian and English Subtitles, Persian script, English script, and accompanied with learning activities. The ten episodes correspond to the first ten lessons in the two volumes of the Modern Persian: Spoken and Written (An Elementary Text), but they can be used independently as well. (peer-reviewed: under negotiation for distribution by Yale University Press).
*Touba: The Meaning of the Night by Shahrnush Parsipur. Co-translated and afterward. New York: Feminist Press projected for 2006.
*Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur, introduction by Kamran Talattof, translated by K. Talattof and J. Sharlet. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998), Also published as Women Without Men with a "translator's afterward" by Kamran Talattof. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2004.

References

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