Monograph

The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India (Cambridge University Press, Global Middle East series, 2023)

Peer-reviewed articles

“Race Against Time: Racial Temporality and Sexuality in Modern Iran,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (forthcoming)

“The Sound of Persianate Modernity: Gendered Soundscapes in Modern Iran,” Philological Encounters 8:2-3 (2023): 121-149. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10042 PDF

“The Late Persianate World: Transregional Connections and the Question of Language” (co-authored with Maryam Fatima and Mehtap Ozdemir), Philological Encounters 8:2-3 (2023): 111-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-12340086 PDF

“The Introduction to Mohammad-Taqi Bahār’s Sabkshenāsi,” Journal of Persianate Studies 15 (2022): 257-280. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-bja10031 PDF

“From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan,” Iranian Studies 55:3 (2022): 611-630. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2022.21 PDF

“Sinicizing Islam: Translating the Gulistan of Saʿdi in Modern China” (co-authored with Yun-Chu Tsai), International Journal of Islam in Asia 1:1 (December 2020): 6-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/25899996-01010002 PDF

“The Making of Modernity in Persianate Literary History,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 36:3 (December 2016): 418-434. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3698971 PDF

Book chapters

“Saʿdi’s Gulistan in British India: A Provocation,” The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation, edited by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Michelle Quay, and Patricia J. Higgins (London: Routledge, 2022): 131-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003052197 PDF

Reviews

Review of Kevin L. Schwartz, Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) for International Journal of Persian Literature 7 (2022): 151-156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/intejperslite.7.0151

Review of Hamid Rezaei Yazdi and Arshavez Mozafari, eds., Persian Literature and Modernity: Production and Reception (London: Routledge, 2019) for Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83:2 (June 2020): 355-357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X20002359

Archive review of the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, University of Nebraska for Dissertation Reviews (November 2014).

Review of Sima Daad, “Medieval Persian Texts and Modern Contexts: Mohammad Qazvini and the Modern Reception of Chahār Maqāle (The Four Discourses)” (PhD diss., University of Washington, 2012), for Dissertation Reviews (May 2014).

Review of Elizabeth M. Bucar, Creative Conformity: The Feminist Politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i Women (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011) for Review of Middle East Studies 47:1 (Summer 2013): 96-98.

Public writing and interviews

Podcast interview about Persian. A Language I Love Is..., October 2023.

“Eternal victims” (review of Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews). Vashti, July 2023.

“What happened to the Persianate in the age of nationalism?” FifteenEightyFour, March 2023.

“After the mother tongues.” Aeon, March 2023.

“Where Religion and Neoliberal Diversity Tactics Converge.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2023.

[In Persian, translated by Basit Arianfar] “هند و زبان اردو چگونه بر نواندیشانِ اصلاح‌طلب در افغانستان و ایران تأثیر گذاشت؟” Etilaatroz, November 2022.

“How Urdu and India Influenced Afghan and Iranian Reformers.” The Wire, July 2022. 

“Yiddish and Arabic Share an Uncommon Commonality.” Newlines Magazine, August 2021.

“The ancient word linking Oman, Thailand and aboriginal Australia.” The National, June 2021. 

“Rabaa.” Laghoo Magazine, May 2016.

[In Urdu] “لکھنوی تعجیب [Lakhnavī Taʿjīb].” Laaltain Magazine, October 2015.

Translations

Musa Zafar. “Hell Offers Visas to Hazaras.” World Literature Today blog, November 2021. (Translation from the Persian.)