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ABOUT
Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian Studies at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (Purdue UP, 2017). She is the co-editor of Sex and Marriage in the Medieval Islamic World: Women, Family, and Love (forthcoming I. B. Tauris 2019). She is also the co-editor of a book series titled, Sex, Marriage, and Family in the Middle East for I. B. Tauris.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnic Groups
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Iranian Studies
Medieval
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Modern
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Persian
Pop Culture
Publishing
Queer/LGBT Studies
Theory
Translation
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
All Middle East
Arabian Peninsula
Armenia
Egypt
Europe
India
Iran
Iraq
Islamic World
Specialties
Comparative Medieval Middle Eastern And European M
Minorities
Literary Diasporas
Languages
Armenian (native)
Persian (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2013
| Comparative Literature
| University of California, Santa Barbara
MA
| 2008
| English
| California State University Los Angeles
Abstracts
A Comparative Study of the Significance of Love in Shaykh San??n’s and Abelard and Heloise’s Religious Transgression
Despised, Yet Desired: Temporary Marriage in Ebrahim Golestan's "'Esmat's Journey"
