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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
13th-18th Centuries
19th-21st Centuries
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Cinema/Film
Comparative
Folklore/Folklife
Iranian Studies
Medieval
Persian
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Caucasus
Central Asia
Egypt
Iran
Mediterranean Countries
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