Michael Craig Hillmann (born May 5, 1940) is professor of
Persian Studies
Persian studies ( Persian: مطالعات فارسی) is the study of the Persian language and its literature specifically. It is differentiated from Iranian studies which is a broader, more interdisciplinary subject that focuses more on the hist ...
at the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
and President of Persepolis Institute, Inc. He has published widely on
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 ...
and
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 ...
and specializes in lyric Persian verse, Persian prose fiction from the 1920s through the 1970s, and literary autobiography. Since the late 1990s, he has focused on Persian instructional materials development, resulting in, among other things, a new Persian language learning syllabus in four volumes called "Persian for America(ns)."
He has published two autobiographical books titled ''From Durham to Tehran'' (1991) and ''From Classroom to Courtroom'' (2008). In ''From Classroom to Courtroom'', he tells the story of how academics at the Middle Eastern Studies department became involved in cross-cultural conflicts which resulted in official complaints, allegations of abuse, discrimination, harassment, racism, and a lawsuit against the university. Hillmann is at work on a third and final autobiographical essay called ''To and From a Maine Village'' and a new Persian dictionary for Hippocrene Books.
Selected publications
* ''From Classroom to Courtroom'' (AuthorHouse 2008)
* ''Tajiki Textbook and Reader: Second Edition'' (Dunwoody Press
2003
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* ''Basic Tajik(i) Word List'' (Dunwoody Press
2003
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* ''Persian Vocabulary Acquisition'', 2nd ed. (Dunwoody Press
2003
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* ''Reading Iran Reading Iranians'', 2nd ed. rev. (Dunwoody Press
2002
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* ''Persian Listening'' (Dunwoody Press,
2008
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External links
Michael C. Hillmann's personal websiteFaculty Profile, Department of Middle East StudiesPersepolis Institute
1940 births
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
College of the Holy Cross alumni
Iranologists
Loyola University Maryland alumni
University of Chicago alumni
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