PEER-REVIEWED ESSAYS

2023 | “Fayzi’s Planetary Poetics: A Theory of Poetry”

(Submitted; under review).

2023 | “Expansive Comparison: Thinking across Persian and English Terms and Temporalities”

In The Art of Teaching Persian Literature: From Theory to Practice, eds. Franklin D. Lewis, A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (Leiden: Brill, submitted).

2023 | “Taste as Method: The Arabic Concept of Direct Experience (Dhawq) and Seventeenth-Century English Thought”

In Logomotives: Words that Change the Premodern World, eds. Marjorie Rubright and Stephen Spiess (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; in press).

2023 | “‘Worlds Together Shined’: Bidel, Traherne, and Collaborative Comparison”

Co-authored with Timothy M. Harrison. PMLA 138.5 (Oct. 2023), 1127-1148.

2023 | “The Grounds of Verse; A Geopolitical Turn in Early Modern Persian Literary Criticism”

In The Routledge Handbook on Persian Literature (ed. Kamran Talattof), 503-520.

2022 | “Color’s Fracture: Translating Fugitive Experience in Early Modern Persian Poetry”

In The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation (eds. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Michelle Quay, and Patricia J. Higgins).

2021 | “What Was Early Modern World Literature?”

Co-authored with Timothy M. Harrison. Modern Philology 119.1 (August 2021). Special issue, “Multiplicities: Recasting the Early Modern Global,” edited by Carina Johnson and Ayesha Ramachandran.

2019 | “Flights of Imagination: Avicenna’s Phoenix (‘Anqa) and Bidel’s Figuration for the Lyric Self.”

Journal of South Asian Intellectual History 2 (2019), 28-72. Special issue on selfhood in the poetry and philosophy of Bīdel, edited by Sajjad Rizvi and Prashant Keshavmurthy.

This essay won the Jafar and Shokoh Farzaneh Prize for Best Article on Persian Literature.

2019 | “The Way of Tradition and the Path of Innovation: Aurangzeb and Dara Shukuh Contend for the Mughal Throne.”

In Empires of the Near East and India: Sources for the Study of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Societies. Ed. Hani Khafipour, 240-260. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

2019 | “The Mind Is Its Own Place: Of Lalla’s Comparative Poetics.”

Co-authored with Sonam Kachru. University of Toronto Quarterly 88.2 (2019), 125-141. Special issue on comparative poetics and world poetics, edited by Ming Xie and Jonathan Hart.

2017 | “Of Parrots and Crows: Bidel and Hazin in their Own Words.”

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 37.3 (2017), 510-530. Special issue (“Circulation and Language: Iranians in Early Modern South Asia”), edited by Usman Hamid and Pasha M. Khan.

TRANSLATIONS

2022 |  “Seven Poems by Osip Mandelstam”

Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation (Spring 2022).

2020 |  “Bidel of Delhi: Lyric Poems on Meditation”

Asymptote.

REVIEWS

2023 |  Review of Alan Williams, tr. The Masnavi of Rumi, Book One and Book Two.

Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (2023), in press.

2022 |  Review of Domenico Ingenito, Beholding Beauty: Sa’di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry.

Iranian Studies (2022), 1-3.