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Persian literature, Persianate, philology, Indo-Iranian
United States

Biography

I'm a literary historian working at the intersections of literature, history, and philology in the Islamicate world. My first book, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India," was published with Cambridge University Press.

Activities

Employment (2)

University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN, US

2023 to present | Assistant Professor (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
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Alexander Jabbari

The University of Oklahoma: Norman, OK, US

2017 to 2022 | Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature (International and Area Studies)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of California Irvine: Irvine, CA, US

2010 to 2017 | PhD (Comparative Literature; graduate emphasis in Feminist Studies)
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University of California Irvine: Irvine, CA, US

2010 to 2012 | Master of Arts (Comparative Literature)
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University of California Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz, CA, US

2006 to 2008 | Bachelor of Arts with Honors (Community Studies)
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Works (11)

Persianate Dialectics

Comparative Literature Studies
2024-11-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexander Jabbari
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Remembering the Persianate in the Modern Novel

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
2024-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0030-8129
Part of ISSN: 1938-1530
Contributors: Alexander Jabbari
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The Late Persianate World: Transregional Connections and the Question of Language

Philological Encounters
2023-10-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Maryam Fatima; Alexander Jabbari; Mehtap Ozdemir
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The Sound of Persianate Modernity: Gendered Soundscapes in Modern Iran

Philological Encounters
2023-08-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexander Jabbari
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The Introduction to Mohammad-Taqi Bahār’s Sabkshenāsi: A Translation

Journal of Persianate Studies
2023-04-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexander Jabbari
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The Making of Persianate Modernity

Cambridge University Press
2023-03-31 | Book
Contributors: Alexander Jabbari
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Kevin L. Schwartz. <i>Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700–1900</i>

International Journal of Persian Literature
2022-09-02 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 2376-5755
Part of ISSN: 2376-5739
Contributors: Alexander Jabbari
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From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan

Iranian Studies
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexander Jabbari
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Sinicizing Islam: Translating the Gulistan of Saʿdi in Modern China

International Journal of Islam in Asia
2020-12-17 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2589-9988
Part of ISSN: 2589-9996
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Alexander Jabbari

Hamid Rezaei Yazdi and Arshavez Mozafari (eds): Persian Literature and Modernity: Production and Reception. (Iranian Studies.) viii, 248 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. £120. ISBN 978 1 138 58533 1.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
2020-06 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 0041-977X
Part of ISSN: 1474-0699
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Alexander Jabbari

The Making of Modernity in Persianate Literary History

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
2016-12-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1089-201X
Part of ISSN: 1548-226X
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