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Jocelyn Sharlet received her Ph.D., from Princeton Univeristy in 2002 (Near Eastern Studies, Classical Arabic and Persian Literature). She is an assistant professor in Comparative Literature, where she teaches courses on Middle
Eastern and North African literatures, and some Central and South
Asian literatures, from medieval to contemporary times. She also teaches
an introductory course on world literatures that includes literatures
of the Middle East and South Asia. Her research includes Arabic literature
and culture in the 7th-15th centuries and Persian literature and culture
in the 11th-15th centuries, and she also works on smaller projects
on contemporary Arabic literature. She has co-translated a Persian
novella, Shahrnush Parsipur's Women Without Men, and she has completed
short projects on the political uses of the garden in the 11th century
Persian poet Manuchehri, and on masculinity and ideological conflict
in a novel by the contemporary Algerian writer al-Tahir Wattar. Her
current project is a study of material and ethical value in politics,
friendship, and love in 9th-10th century Arabic poetry and 11th-12th
century Persian poetry and its broader cultural context. Before coming
to Davis, she taught Arabic language for two years, and she has lived
and worked for extended periods of time in Syria and Egypt, and for
short periods of time in Iran and Turkey.
Courses Taught
COM 53C - Literaturees of the Islamic World
COM 155 - Classical Literatures of the Islamic World
COM 166 - Literatures of the Modern Middle East
COM 145 - Representations of the City in Literature
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