Persian

People

Purnima Dhavan

Adjunct Associate in NELC, Associate Professor, Department of History
Aria Fani

Assistant to the Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Assistant Professor
Arzoo Osanloo

Adjunct in NELC, Associate Professor, Department of Law, Societies, and Justice
Shahrzad Shams

Lecturer
Joel Walker

Adjunct in NELC, Associate Professor, Department of History

NELC Language Students Accepted to Graduate Programs (June 10, 2020)
NELC Major Piper Coyner Awarded UW President's Medal (May 26, 2020)
The Allure of Untranslatability (May 17, 2020)
UW-NELC Online: Language Teaching During the Lockdown (May 7, 2020)
Nowruz 2020: A Message from NELC - PISP (March 20, 2020)
NELC Major Noah Gruenert Broadcasts in Persian on Radio Iranshahr (January 14, 2020)
NEW Assistant Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies: Aria Fani (September 5, 2019)
Nowruz at UW (April 30, 2019)
Ancient Iran Day 2018 (April 21, 2019)
Afrassiabi Lecture 2019: Lior Sternfield on Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Centry (April 21, 2019)
May 12-13: Writing the Iranian Revolution: Memory, Testimony, Time (April 13, 2017)
Afrassiabi Endowed Lecture Feb. 11th - Books From Bombay (January 11, 2017)
Samad Alavi Reviews Born Upon the Dark Spear: Selected Poems of Ahmad Shamlu (January 3, 2017)

Aria Fani, "The Allure of Untranslatability: Shafi'i-Kadkani and (Not) Translating Persian Poetry.” Iranian Studies, 2020. Learn more
Aria Fani and John L. Hayes, "Basmala: Translating an Iconic Phrase.” TRANS: Revista de Traductología, 21, 2017, pp. 213-219 Learn more
Aria Fani, "A Silent Conversation with Literary History: Re- theorizing Modernism in the Poetry of Bizhan Jalāli," Iranian Studies, 50:4, 2017, pp. 523-552, Learn more
Aria Fani, “Poet as Citizen in a Contested Nation: Rewriting the Poetry of Soviet-occupied Afghanistan.” In Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility, and Ethical Praxis. Edited by David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, Wayne Bowman, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 392-414. Learn more
Samad Alavi, "Living in Lyric: The Task of Translating a Modernist Ghazal" in Persian Language, Literature and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks, ed. Kamran Talattof, Routledge, 2015. Learn more
Aria Fani, “Narratives of Literary Commitment in the Poetry of Afghan Resistance: The Cases of Khalilollah Khalili and Parwin Pazhwâk,” Iran Nameh, 29:1, 2014, pp. 108-120 Learn more