Michael Craig Hillmann (University of Texas at Austin)

Submitted: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 12:32:18 -0500

Michael Craig Hillmann
Professor of Persian Studies
Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712  USA

Phones:  512-471-1365 (dept)
         512-475-6785 (private)
FAX:     512-471-4197
Email:

Editor
Literature East & West
(a world literature annual established in 1954)

President
Persepolis Enterprises
(non-academic Persian language services since 1977)
P.O. Box 8016
Austin, TX 78713, U.S.A.
512-458-2924 (tel/fax)

Research/Teaching Interests: African American Women's Writing.
Autobiography, Classical Persian Literature (esp.,Ferdowsi, Khayyam,
Sa'di, Hafez)  Iranian Culture. Modernist Persian Fiction, 1921-1979.
Modernist Persian Poetry,1921-1990s. Oriental Carpets (esp. Persian
carpets) Persian Language (e.g., teaching methods and textbook writing)
World Literature

Books
Unity in the Ghazals of Hafez (Bibliotheca Islamica, 1976)
Major Voices in Contemporary Persian Literature (LE&W, 1980, edited volume)
Persian Carpets (University of Texas Press, 1984)
A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry (Three Continents Press, 1987)
Iranian Culture: A Persianist View (University Press of America, 1990, 1992)
From Durham to Tehran (Iranbooks, 1991)
Special Sadeq Hedayat Issue-Iran Nameh (Iran Nameh,1992, co-editor)
The Texas Advanced Persian Reader (Persepolis Entps, 1994, co-author)
Persian Fiction Reader (Dunwoody Press,1995)
The Role of Arabic in Persian Today (Iranbooks, 1996)

Persian Newspaper Reader (in progress)
The Blind Owl as Narrative (in progress)
Fundamentals of Persian Reading and Writing (in progress)
Hafez, The Persian Poet's Poet (in progress)
Classics of Persian Literature, 900-2000 (in progress)