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Cameron Cross
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
3155 STB
202 South Thayer St
Ann Arbor MI 48104
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Persian
Arabic
Comparative
Cinema/Film
Translation
13th-18th Centuries
7th-13th Centuries
19th-21st Centuries
Iranian Studies
Folklore/Folklife
Medieval
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Egypt
Mediterranean Countries
Central Asia
Caucasus
Specialties
Comparative Literature
Translation Studies
Prose & Poetry
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2015 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago
MA | 2007 | Center for Middle Eastern Studies | University of Chicago
BA | 2004 | Italian, History | University of Colorado, Boulder
Abstracts
Transcendence and Ruin: The Many Colors of Love in Nizami's Haft Paykar "If Death is Just, What is Injustice?"?: Illicit Rage in "Sohrab and Rostam"? an "The Knight's Tale"? Knowledge, Fair and Foul: The Haft Paykar Interprets Itself Finding Romance: Vis, Varqa, and the Origins of a Genre The Man Inside the Mountain: Architectonics of Power and Kingship in Vis and Ramin Love, death, and conversion in Damascus and Córdoba: The case of Varqa & Golshāh and Floire & Blancheflor “I Know It When I See It”: Towards a Theory of the Romance Genre Translating the Divan-e Shams: Poetics, Politics, and Pedagogy