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 ...

the University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. Th ...

. 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

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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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.

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