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Mohsen Ashtiany — Curriculum VitaeEducation EducationUniversity of St. Andrews, Faculty of Arts, Distinction in Medieval History and English Literature; MA (Honors), 1969; English Language and Literature. Oxford University, Wadham College, 1971-77; Graduate Research in Comparative Literature. Recent Academic and Editorial AppointmentsEditor for Publications, The Ilex Foundation. Research Scholar and Associate Editor at the Encyclopædia Iranica at the Encyclopædia Iranica, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University. September 2002-August 2003- Visiting Fellow, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University. Teaching AppointmentsSeptember 1996-June 1997- Yarshater Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; Joint graduate classes at CMES in medieval Persian studies. September 1981-June 1984- Visiting Lecturer in Persian, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester; History of Persian Literature (3 term survey); Lectures on mystical poetry; introductory lectures on Modern Persian History (19th & 20th centuries). September 1978-may 1979- Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles; Courses taught at the Graduate Program in Iranian Studies included Classical Persian Literature and topics in twentieth century Persian intellectual history. October 1971–June 1977- Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University; Courses taught: Advanced Classical Persian Literature: Andarz & Adab Traditions; Introduction to Persian Literature (Classical & Modern); Persian Literature: Source-Criticism. Lectures and Review CommissionsReviewed manuscripts for I.B. Tauris Publishers, London; and the following two academic journals, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and Iranian Studies. Advisor and Examiner for the International Baccalaureate Board while resident in the UK. Invited Lectures“Ferdowsi and the ‘New Medievalism’,” paper prepared for the Second International Conference organized by the Ilex Foundation in Tehran, May-August, 2000. “Focal Scenes and Narrative Poetry,” read at the Third Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, Bethesda, Maryland, May 2000. “Speech performances in Persian poetry,” read at the Conference on the poet Ferdowsi at Harvard University sponsored by the Ilex Foundation, March l999. “Myth and Dialogue in Persian Narrative Poetry,” read at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, April 1997. “Literacy, Orality and the Shahnameh,” read at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, February 1995. “The Shahnameh and its Readership,” read at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University, November 1994. “Report on the Reorganization of Persian Studies,” presented to the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles, February 1979. “Approaches to Medieval Persian Literature,” at the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles, April 1979. “The German Critics Curtius and Auerbach in Relation to Persian Literature,” at the Medieval Group Meeting, Pembroke College, Oxford University, February 1977. PublicationsEditing articles for the Encyclopaedia Iranica. Since joining the editorial board, four further volumes of the Encyclopaedia, each containing over 670 double column pages of articles have been published and a fifth volume is in press. The work involves not only editing articles but also at times contributing original articles under EIr. insignia. Review of Charles Kurzman’s The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran, in Political Science Quarterly, (forthcoming, 2005). Review of Miracle et Karâma: Hagiographies médiévales comparées, ed. Denise Aigle, Turnhout, 2000 in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 37, No. 2, Dec. 2003. English preface to the facsimile edition of The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia manuscript of the Shahnameh, Tehran, 2000. “Persian Literature” (Classical & Modern), in Trevor Mostyn and Albert Hourani, eds., Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge University Press, 1988). Translation of Iradj Afshar, “Some Remarks on the Early History of Photography in Iran,” in C. E. Bosworth & Carole Hillenbrand, eds., Qajar Iran: Political, Social, and Cultural Change, 1800-1925 (Edinburgh University Press, 1983). Review of Louis Massignon, The Passion of Al-Hallaj, tr. Robert Mason, in Art International, 27/IV, 1984. Review of Najm al-Din Razi, The Path of God’s Bondsmen from Origin to Return, tr. Hamid Algar, in the BSOAS, 47, 1984. Review of Sheikh Bighami, Love and War: Adventures from the Firuz Shah Nama, tr. William L. Hanaway, in IJMES, 9, 1978. Work in ProgressA major translation project (funded by NEH) with Professor Edmund C. Bosworth, Emeritus Professor of Arabic at the University of Manchester and General Editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., to publish an annotated complete translation of a major medieval chronicle, Bayhaqi’s Tarikh-e Mas’udi. Forthcoming projectsCommissioned to write the volumes on the poet and Nezami for a new series on “Makers of the Islamic World” for Oneworld Publishers, Oxford, under the general editorship of Professor Patricia Crone. Editor of Dreaming Across Boundaries: Dreams and Dream Manuals in the Middle Ages, Washington and Cambridge, Mass., November, 2005 (forthcoming). Conferences and SeminarsOrganized panel sponsored by the Ilex Foundation on “Dreaming in the Middle Ages” and acted as Discussant, Middle East Studies Association Conference at Anchorage, Alaska, November 2003. Co-chaired a colloquium for the Columbia alumni during the Fall semester 2003 on eight major Persian and Arabic texts with Professor Wm. Theodore de Bary, Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia. Organized panel sponsored by the Ilex Foundation on “The Rhetoric of Biography,” and acted as Discussant, the Fifth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, Bethesda, Maryland, May 2004. Organized panel on “Gift-Giving and Hostage-Taking” and will be the Discussant, Middle East Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, November 2004. |
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