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Alexander Jabbari
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact

United States
ABOUT
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
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Gender/Women's Studies
Historiography
Iranian Studies
Nationalism
Persian
South Asian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
India
Pakistan
Afghanistan
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
Abstracts
The 'Indian Style' and its Critics: Nationalism and Hegemony between Iran and India The Sexual Aesthetics of Modernity: Homoeroticism, Nation, and the Modern in Persianate Literary Criticism Literary History as Modernization in Iran Flipping the Persianate Script: Urdu in 20th Century Iran More Arab than the Arabs: Shibli Nu‘mani's Critique of Jurji Zaydan The Erotics of Language in 20th Century Iranian Poetry Sa‘di's Gulistan in British India: A Provocation Urdu in Palestine, Hebrew in India: Muslim Philology before 1947