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Paul E. Losensky
Indiana University Bloomington
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (812) 855-9602
Comparative Literature
Indiana University Ballantine Hall 6th floor
Bloomington IN 47405
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Comparative
Iranian Studies
Mughal Studies
Persian
Geographic Areas of Interest
Central Asia
India
Iran
Specialties
Arabic Lit
Comp Lit
Persian Lit
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (native)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Persian (fluent)
Spanish (advanced)
Tajik (advanced)
Education
PhD | 1993 | NE Lang/Civ | U of Chicago
Abstracts
"I Have no Designs on Any Country": Self-Representation in the Cupbearer's Song of Sufi Mazandarani “From the Effulgence of Silences”: Emanation, Creativity, and Aesthetics in the Poetry of Sa'eb Tabrizi A Self-Enclosed Commentary: Metapoetics in the Signature Verse in the Early Modern Persian Ghazal A Master Poet, "in Spite of Being a Turk": Shani Takallu and Literary Culture under Shah 'Abbas Imagination Games: Ten Fantasias on the Beloved’s Features from Zolāli’s Mahmud o Ayaz Can the Ghazal Ever be Read as Autobiography?: Toponyms in the Poetry of Sa'eb Tabrizi