Kamran Talattof ( fa, کامران تلطف) is a professor of Persian and
Iranian studies
Iranian studies ( fa, ايرانشناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...
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the University of Arizona
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His focus of research is gender, ideology, culture, and language, with an emphasis on
literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...
(Modern and Classical); contemporary Islamic issues,
Middle East
The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europ ...
ern culture; and the
Persian language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken a ...
. He has translated contemporary debates in Islam from Persian, Arabic, French, and
into English.
In addition to co-authoring the textbook "Modern Persian: Spoken and Written", Kamran Talatoff is a coordinator of the University of Arizona's Online Persian Language Learning Resource Project.
Published works
Talattof is the author or co-author of ''The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature''; ''Modern Persian: Spoken and Written'' with D. Stilo and J. Clinton, He co-edited ''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
Shahrnush Parsipur
Shahrnush Parsipur ( fa, شهرنوش پارسیپور; born 17 February 1946) is an Iranian-born writer and translator.
Biography
Shahrnush Parsipur was born on 17 February 1946; she was born and raised in Tehran. Parsipur received her B.A. ...
, with J. Sharlet and ''
Touba and the Meaning of Night'' by Parsipur, with H. Houshmand.
His most recent book is ''Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist'' (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011), which has won one or two awards.
References
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Living people
University of Arizona faculty
Iranian expatriate academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Iranologists