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Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa
Title:Professor of Persian Language and Literature
Chair, Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures
Professor of Comparative Literature
Degree:PHD, University of London
MA, University of London
MLS, University of Shiraz, Iran
BA, University of Shiraz, Iran
Dept:Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures
Comparative Literature
Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies
Religious Studies
Women & Gender Studies
Office:Busch Hall 114B
Mailbox: Full Mailing Address
Phone:(314) 935-8576
E-mail:fatemeh@wustl.edu

Courses
Lyrics of Mystical Love, East and West; Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Persian

Research Interests
Persian poetry, Islamic mysticism, women's studies

Selected Publications:

“Recite in the Name of the Red Rose”: Poetics of Sacred Making in Twentieth Century Iran. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.

Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal aI-Din Rumi. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

"Taming of the Unruly King: Nizami's Shirin as Lover and Educator," in Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. Ed. Guiti Nashat and Lois Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2004).

“Recite in the Name of the Red Rose”: Poetics of Sacred Making in Twentieth Century Iran. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.

Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal aI-Din Rumi. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

"Taming of the Unruly King: Nizami's Shirin as Lover and Educator," in Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. Ed. Guiti Nashat and Lois Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2004).

A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986. (Winner of the Dunne & Wilson Award).

Talashi dar aghaz (collection of poems). Shiraz: Shiraz University Press, 1976.