Kamran Talattof ( fa, کامران تلطف) is a professor of Persian and
Iranian studies
Iranian studies ( fa, ايرانشناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...
at
the University of Arizona
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.
His focus of research is gender, ideology, culture, and language, with an emphasis on
literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to inclu ...
(Modern and Classical); contemporary Islamic issues,
Middle East
The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europ ...
ern culture; and the
Persian language
Persian (), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of th ...
. He has translated contemporary debates in Islam from Persian, Arabic, French, and
into English.
In addition to co-authoring the textbook "Modern Persian: Spoken and Written", Kamran Talatoff is a coordinator of the University of Arizona's Online Persian Language Learning Resource Project.
Published works
Talattof is the author or co-author of ''The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature''; ''Modern Persian: Spoken and Written'' with D. Stilo and J. Clinton, He co-edited ''Essays on Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry'' with A. Karimi-Hakkak; ''The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric'' with J. Clinton;
and ''Contemporary Debates in Islam: An Anthology of Modernist and Fundamentalist Thought'' with M. Moaddel. He is the co-translator of ''Women without Men'' by
Shahrnush Parsipur, with J. Sharlet and ''
Touba and the Meaning of Night
''Touba and the Meaning of Night'' ( fa, طوبی و معنای شب, italic=yes) is a novel written by the Iranian novelist, Shahrnush Parsipur and originally published in Iran in 1989. Written after the author had spent four years and seven mon ...
'' by Parsipur, with H. Houshmand.
His most recent book is ''Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist'' (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011), which has won one or two awards.
References
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Living people
University of Arizona faculty
Iranian expatriate academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Iranologists