Occupation
Librarian/Info Specialist
Contact
ABOUT
Farshad Sonboldel is the Middle East Librarian and Area Studies Collection Strategist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern languages (Modern Persian poetry) from the University of St. Andrews, UK. He also holds a Master’s and a Bachelor’s Degree in Persian Language and Literature from the University of Tehran, Iran. He is a poet, literary critic, and researcher in modern Persian literature. His books in Persian include two selections of his poems titled Metropolis (2015) and She’r-e Boland-e Sharayet (2019), a research monograph, Gozaresh-e Nahib-e Jonbesh-e Adabi-e Shahin: Tondar Kia (2016), and an edited volume on the current trends of the literary criticism in Persian literature titled Naqd-e Irad (2021). His forthcoming monograph is titled The Rebellion of Poetic Forms: Politics of Poetic Experimentation in Modern Persian Poetry. He is the book review editor for MELA Notes (Journal of the Middle East Librarians' Association).
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Persian
Modern
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Islamic World
Specialties
Modern Persian Literature
Middle East Librarianship
Area Studies Librarianship
Languages
Persian (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2021
| Modern Languages
| University of St Andrews
MA
| 2016
| Persian Language and Literature
| University of Tehran
Abstracts
Staging Persian Poetry: Poetics and Politics of Persian Performance Poetry (The 1990s- Present)
The Good Taste: Exclusion of Modern and Contemporary Materials from the Persian Literature Curricula (the 1920s-1960s)
