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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
Iranian Studies
Medieval
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Persian
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Cinema/Film
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnic Groups
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Modern
Pop Culture
Publishing
Queer/LGBT Studies
Theory
Transnationalism
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Egypt
Europe
Iran
Iraq
All Middle East
Armenia
Afghanistan
India
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"
