Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of Washsington)

Submitted: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 09:25:48 -0700 (PDT)
 
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Assoc. Prof.of Persian Language & Literature and Iranian Culture
& Civilization 
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
Box 353120
Univiversity of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
USA
Phones:     (206) 543-7145
            (206) 543-6033
FAX:        (206) 685-7936
 
Email:      karimi@u.washington.edu>
  
The main focus of my research is Persian poetry, both classical 
and modern, within its diverse sociopolitical contexts and from a
comparative perspective.  I began over twenty years ago by presenting 
a sampling of modernist Persian poetry in English translation [An
Anthology of Modern Persian Poetry, Westview, 1978].  Over the last
decade, I have written several essays, both in Persian and in English, on
the dynamics of change in that poetic tradition, and on the cultures and 
contexts of Persian poetry.  Last year, my book-length study of the
emergance of the modernist discourse in Persian poetry was published
[Recasting Persain Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran,
University of Utash Press, 1995].  At the moment, I am studying the
varieties of intertextual relations in the millennium-old tradition of 
lyrical expression in Persian poetry.  

In teaching, I am on the lookout for new methodologies of teaching
Persian to studetns, both Amercian and American-Itanian.