Kamran Talattof

Kamran Talattof is the professor of Persian and Iranian studies at the University of Arizona and the author, co-author, or co-editor of "The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature"; "Modern Persian: Spoken and Written" with D. Stilo and J. Clinton; "Essays on Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry" with A. Karimi-Hakkak; "The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric" with J. Clinton; and "Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and Fundamentalist Thought" with M. Moaddel. He is the co-translator of "Women without Men" by Shahrnoosh Parsipur, with J. Sharlet and "Touba: The Meaning of the Night" by Parsipur, with H. Houshmand. Many of his articles focus on gender, ideology, culture, and language. His research activities and publications may be divided into three broad categories: Literature (Modern and Classical); Contemporary Islamic Issues and Middle Eastern Culture; and the Persian Language. He has translated several items for the purpose of the studies of contemporary debates in Islam from Persian, Arabic, French, and Urdu into English.