Alexander Jabbari is Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is a literary historian working on the literature, history, and philology of the Middle East and South Asia. His first book is "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
Colonialism
Nationalism
Persian
19th-21st Centuries
South Asian Studies
Historiography
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
India
Iran
Pakistan
Specialties
Persian Literary Historiography
Colonialism And Modernity
Persian And Urdu Tazkirah
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (native)
Persian (fluent)
Spanish (fluent)
Turkish (intermediate)
Urdu (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Italian (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2017
| Comparative Literature
| University of California-Irvine
MA
| 2012
| Comparative Literature
| University of California-Irvine
BA
| 2008
| Community Studies
| University of California-Santa Cruz
