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Matthew Thomas Miller
University of Maryland, College Park
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact

DC
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
Persian
Theory
All Time Periods
Colonialism
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
Islamic Thought
Media
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Modernization
Modern
Identity/Representation
Islamic Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Afghanistan
Central Asia
India
Islamic World
Pakistan
Anatolia
Syria
All Middle East
Specialties
Sufism And Sufi Literature
Literary And Cultural Theory
Persian And Arabic Literature (All Periods)
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
English (native)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2016 | Comparative Literature | Washington University in St. Louis
MA | 2009 | Islamic and Near Eastern Studies | Washington University in St. Louis
BA | 2007 | International and Area Studies | Washington University in St. Louis
Abstracts
Aesthetic Homonormativity in Medieval Persian Sufism: A Cultural Poetics of Sufi Homoeroticism in the Biographical Traditions of Fakhr Al-Din ‘Eraqi Reconceptualizing Medieval Poetic Biographical Traditions as Interpretative and Discursive Constructs: A Case Study of the Biographical Tradition of Fakhr al-Din ‘Eraqi Topic Modeling Genre in Medieval Persian Poetry: A Computational Approach to Medieval Thematic Collections of Poetry Imagery as Imaginal Embodiments and Performances of Meaning: A Case Study of a Poem of 'Iraqi (Dis)embodying Sufi Poetry: Theories of Poetic Imagery and the Mistranslation of the Imaginal Body