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The Art of Teaching Persian Literature: From Theory to Practice maps the spread of Persian literature as it has been taught around the world from a thematic, theoretical, historical, and practical point of view.
About the author
Franklin Dean Lewis was Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Rumi: Past and Present, East and West. The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi (2000, 2008), ), Rumi: Swallowing the Sun (2007), and the translator of Things We Left Unsaid (2012).
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab is Professor of Iranian and Persian Studies at Utrecht University. He is the author of Martyrdom, Mysticism and Dissent: The Poetry of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) (2021), Laylī and Majnūn: Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Niẓāmī's Epic Romance (2003), and the editor of Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry (2012).
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is a literary translator and Instructional Professor of Persian at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Translation Metacognitive Strategies (2009) and Processing Compound Verbs in Persian: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Complex Predicates (2014). She has also published several translations, such as The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation (2021).
Contributors
Manizheh Abdollahi, Samad Alavi, Natalia Chalisova, Cameron Cross, Dick Davis, M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Persis Karim, Sooyong Kim, Daniela Meneghini, Jane Mikkelson, Amir Moosavi, Evgeniya Nikitenko, Austin O'Malley, Farideh Pourgiv, Nasrin Rahimieh, Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Farshad Sonboldel, Claudia Yaghoobi, and Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi.
