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Jane Mikkelson
Yale University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
ABOUT
Jane is a PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago, pursuing a joint degree in the departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Her dissertation, "Worlds of the Imagination: Time, Space, and Mind in the Early Modern Indo-Persian Lyric", studies the work of metaphor in the lyric poetry of Bidel Dehlavi, Hazin Lahiji, and other poets of the early modern Persianate world.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Persian
13th-18th Centuries
Cultural Studies
Historiography
History Of Religion
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
Mughal Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
South Asian Studies
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
India
Iran
All Middle East
Central Asia
Islamic World
Specialties
Religion And Literature
Early Modern Persian Literature
Lyric Poetry
Languages
Russian (native)
Persian (fluent)
Urdu (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Hindi (advanced)
French (advanced)
Italian (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD | 2019 | SALC and NELC | University of Chicago
Abstracts
The Sufi Pathology of Love Ardent Mystical Longing, Black Humour, or Searing Social Commentary? Sati in Three Indo-Persian Poems A Style by Any Other Name? Arguments about Lyric Style and Geographical Belonging in Four Early Modern Persian Tazkeres Lyric Performances of Thought: Early Modern Persian Definition Poems Ambition as Expansion of the Self in Odes by Fayżī (d.1595) and Makhfī (d.1702)