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Hajnalka Kovacs
Harvard University
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Email:
[email protected]
1 Bow Street, Room 325
Cambridge MA 02138
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Mughal Studies
Persian
South Asian Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Central Asia
India
Iran
Specialties
Premod Persian & Urdu Poetry
Sufi Thght & Lit
Works Of Abd Al-Qadir Bedil (1644-1720)
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Hindi (fluent)
Hungarian (native)
Persian (advanced)
Russian (elementary)
Tajik (intermediate)
Urdu (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2013 | South Asian Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago
MA | 2007 | Iranian Stds | Eotvos Lorand U of Sci, Budapest, Hungary
MA | 2003 | Indoeur Ling | Eotvos Lorand U of Sci, Budapest, Hungary
MA | 2002 | Urdu | Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Abstracts
The Betel Roll, the Unity of Being, and the Problem of Speech: Poetic Closure in Bedil's Muhit-i A'zam
The Geography of Knowledge in Shīr Khān Lodī’s Mir'at al-khayāl
Zeniths and Nadirs: The Theme of the Miʿrāj in Bēdil’s Ghazals