Alireza Korangy, Ph.D.

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APPPOINTMENTS

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Lecturer, Department of English. Department of Arab Studies. Civilization Studies Program (Critical Thinking in Humanities), American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon (2019-2023)

• Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (2008-2015)

• Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO (2007-2008)

• Instructor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (spring 2000)

• Teaching Fellow, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1997-2001; 2005-2006)

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

• Chief Strategy Officer, Islamic Museum of New York City/Center for Advanced Studies of Islamic and Islamicate Intellectualism, New York City, New York (January 2018-January 2019) The vision of the institute was to become an interdisciplinary go-to center that highlights the tenets of Islam and its myriad dimensions abound in order to affect the current flow of mis-directed and often counterproductive foreign policies concerning Islamic nations and Muslims; depict Islam and Muslims in an honest and unbiased manner; and to bring to the forefront similarities and differences between the Islamic community and other communities in a healthy environment under a rubric of a logical and intellectual dialectic and discourse. The ultimate goal of IM-NYC was to create an inter-faith dialogue via intellectual proxies of publication, debate, and unbiased scholarship. Responsibilities included:

§ Defining the aspirations of the Institute

§ Fundraising at the local and global level

§ Contact with publishers and establishing publishing contracts for the myriad intellectual aspirations of the Center and the museum (writing proposals, editorial board contacts, etc.)

§ Drafting strategies (business, short-term and long term-term outreach, etc.)

§ Defining the structure and the general constitution of the Center

§ Facilitating contact with NGO’s and foundations for fundraising and board membership

§ Securing Exhibitions and collaborations with museums in the area and globally PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (Fully Contracted by Publishers/Finished & On-going)

• Development of the Ghazal and Khāqānī: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013) [Reviewed by Iranian Studies Vol. 48, Iss. 2, 2015; Reviewed by Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 25, Iss. 3, 2015]

• No Tapping Around Philology: Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thackston Jr.’s 70th Birthday, Eds. Alireza Korangy and Daniel J. Sheffield (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014) [Reviewed by The Arabist: Budapest Studies in Arabic Vol. 36, 2015]

• Essays in Islamic Philology, History and Philosophy, Eds. Alireza Korangy, Wheeler M. Thackston, Roy P. Mottahedeh and William Granara (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter in the monograph series Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients: Neue Folge, 2016)

• Beloved: Love and Languishing in Middle Eastern Literatures, Eds. Alireza Korangy, Hanadi al-Samman, and Michael Beard (London: I.B. Tauris, in the series Library of Middle East History, 2017; second edition 2023)

• Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres (Leiden: Brill, in the series Brill’s Indological Library, 2017)

• Najm al-Dīn Rāzī’s Philosophical ‘Treatise on Love and Reason’: Hermeneutics and a Philological Query (with full text and translation). (Walter de Gruyter in the monograph series Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients: Neue Folge, forthcoming fall 2022)

• Essays in Iranian and Persian Linguistics, with Corey Miller (Mouton de Gruyter, in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 2017)

• Essays on Kurdish Narratology and Folklore: Oral tradition, History, and Nationalism (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2018)

• The ‘Other’ Martyrs: Women and the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death in World Literatures

(Harrassowitz Verlag, in the series Martyrdom and Literature, 2019 [Contract has been extended to 2023]) Alireza Korangy, Ph.D.

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• Typology of Iranian Languages (Mouton de Gruyter, in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs

[TiLSM], 2018)

• Khaqani, Poet-Philosopher of Medieval Persia: The Life and Writings (I.B. Tauris, in the series International Library of Iranian Studies, forthcoming 2023)

• Grammar of Lori (Mouton de Gruyter, Fall 2025)

• Persian linguistics in Cultural Contexts, with Farzad Sharifian (Routledge, 2020)

• The Poetry and Poets of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution, with Homa Katouzian (Routledge, 2022)

• Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature, (Walter de Gruyter, 2023)

• A Style Guide for Islamic and Qur’anic Studies (Penn State University Press & Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2023)

• Trends in Persian Literary Devices (Springer, forthcoming 2023)

• Persian Dialects and Dialectology (Springer, forthcoming 2023)

• Springer Handbook of Berber Linguistics (Springer, forthcoming Spring 2023)

• Persian Conceptualizations of Fealty, Penury and Sacrifice (Springer Nature, forthcoming 2024)

• Poetics of Board Games in Persian Literature: Semantics and Cultural Conceptualizations (Springer, forthcoming 2024)

• Martyrdom in Iran: A Poetics of Mythologization (Cornell University Press in the series Myth and Poetics II

(approved by Series Editors awaiting Press approval), forthcoming 2024)

• Springer Handbook of Cultural Linguistics and Pragmatics (Springer Nature, Fall 2023)

• Springer Handbook of Multilingualism, Identity, and Language Endangerment in Africa (Springer Nature, in the Series Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics, Fall 2024)

• Zūrkhāna in Iran: Cultural Dimensions of Strength and Servility (Springer Nature, Fall 2025)

• A History of Five Iranian Municipalities - A Parallel-Text Translation and Annotated Study (Springer Nature, Fall 2025)

• Studies on Gurani Literature (Springer Nature, Spring 2026)

• Ruthless Calm, Ruthful Chaos: Studies on Narratology of Modern Persian Literature (Springer Nature, Spring 2026)

• Gilaki Grammar with A Chrestomathy (Harrassowitz Verlag, forthcoming 2027)

• An Early 20th Century Lexicon of Sīstānī Dialect Words: Based on the British Revenue and Military Reports in Iran (Springer Nature, Spring 2026)

• A Vocabulary of Kinship Terms In the New West Iranian Dialects (Springer Nature, Spring 2026)

• Springer Handbook of North African Arabic (10 volumes) (Springer Nature, 2025-2030) ARTICLES . ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES . CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• “Lori Phonology,” in ‘Springer Handbooks of Phonetics and Phonology of Modern Iranian Languages,’ Eds. Reza Falahati and Zahra Ghane (Springer Nature, forthcoming 2014)

• “A Literary and Historical Background of Martyrdom in Iran,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 29 (2009): 528-543.

• “Poetry of Iranian Martyrs: Poetic Death, Martyr Poetics and Iranian polity,” PERSICA 25 (2017): 51- 68.

• ‘Masnavi,’ The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, fourth edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011): 849.

• ‘Sex-Change Operations in Iran,’ Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History

[LGBTQH] (New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 2017).

• “The Qasides of Khāqānī and His Circles,” in ‘No Tapping Around Philology’: Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thackston’s 70th Birthday. Eds. Alireza Korangy and Daniel J. Sheffield (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014)

• “Ghazal,” in 600 C.E. – 1450 C.E.: Wiley-Black Companion to World Literatures; v. 2. Ed. Ken Seigneurie.

(London: Wiley-Black Publishing, 2019)

• “Qasides of the Khwarazmshahid Court (Adib-e Saber, Vatvat, etc.),” Chapter 3 of Persian Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: A History of Persian Literature: v. 2: Panegyric, Love and Quatrain Poems. Eds. Ehsan Yarshater and Mohsen Ashtiany (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017)

• “Ghazal: Form in Meaning,” in Routledge Handbook of Persian Literature; Ed. Kamran Talattof (London: Routledge. 2023)

• “Yawp from atop the desert sand: the poetics of existentialism in Jahiliya poetry and beyond,” in ‘Storied Deserts: Re-Imagining Arid Environments’; Ed. Celina Osuna, et. Al (London: Routledge, 2023 forthcoming) Alireza Korangy, Ph.D.

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SELECT BOOK REVIEWS

• Laetitia Manquette, Orientalism Versus Occidentalism: Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since The Islamic Revolution. (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013), for International Journal of Persian Literature, 5.1, summer 2020)

• Maryam Moazzen, Formation of a Religious Landscape: Shi‘i Higher Learning in Safavid Iran. (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2017, for Renaissance Quarterly, 71.4, winter 2019)

• A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, Ed. The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis.

(Washington D.C.: Mage Publishers, 2018, for Bibliotheca Orientalis, 75.3, fall 2018)

• Mika Natif, Mughal Occidentalism. (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2018, for International Journal of Persian Literature, 4.1, summer 2019)

• Alastair Hamilton and Jan Loop, Eds. The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe. (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2017, for Renaissance Quarterly, 71.2, summer 2018)

• A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, Ed. A History of Persian Literature, Volume 10: Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015, for International Journal of Persian Literature, 2.1, summer 2017)

• J. T. P. de Bruijn, Ed. A History of Persian Literature, Volume 1: General Introduction to Persian Literature.

(London: I. B. Tauris, 2009, for International Journal of Persian Literature, 1.1, summer 2016)

• Arzu Öztürkmen and Evelyn Birge Vitz, Eds. Medieval and Early Modern Performance in the Eastern Mediterranean. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2015, for Renaissance Quarterly, 68.2, summer 2015)

• Leonard Lewisohn, Ed. Hafiz and the religion of Love in classical Persian poetry. (New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2010 for Bibliotheca Orientalis, 71.3, fall 2014 )

• Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Ed. Metaphor and imagery in Persian Poetry. (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012 for Bibliotheca Orientalis 71.3, fall 2014)

• Leonard Lewisohn, Ed. Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight. (New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2010 for Bibliotheca Orientalis 71.2, summer 2014)

• Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry. (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2011 for Bibliotheca Orientalis 71.1, April 2014)

• Leonard Lewisohn and Christopher Shackle, Eds. Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight.

(New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2006 for Bulletin for the Review of Middle East Studies 44.1 (2010): 102-104.) ACADEMIC BOARDS + EDITORSHIPS

• Editor-in-Chief. Springer Handbooks of Languages and Linguistics, New York, Singapore, and London: Springer Nature.

• Founding Editor/Editor-in-Chief. International Journal of Persian Literature (SCOPUS), Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press and Johns Hopkins University Press.

• Editor/(Co-) Editor (with Charles Häberl). Journal of Comparative Philology, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press and Johns Hopkins University Press. (Issue 1, 2025).

• Editor-in-Chief/(Co-) Editor (with Carina Jahani). Companions in Iranian Languages and Linguistics, Berlin and

• New Editor. York: Monograph De Gruyter Series: Mouton. Martyrdom https:and //www.Literature, degruyter.Wiesbaden: com/serial/HarrassowitzVerlag. cill-b/html?lang=en

• Editorial Board. ISS (Iranian Studies Series), Leiden University, co-published with Purdue University Press and distributed by University of Chicago Press.

• Advisory Board. PERSICA (Uitgave van het Genootschap Nederland-Iran Annual of the Dutchiranian Society), Leuven: Peeters.

• Advisory Board. Pusteblume: Journal of Translation, Boston: Funded by Boston University.

• Editorial Board. The Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture (JIPC), INLCS. Alireza Korangy, Ph.D.

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PRESENTATIONS

SELECT INVITED LECTURES

• 2018: “Sex Change in Iran: The Irony of it All,” a lecture for University of California Santa Barbara Department of Religious Studies, Santa Barbara, California.

• 2015: “Qalandar, Qalandarī and ‘Ayyarī in Indo-Persian Literature: A case of Proto-“Indian Style” Bū Alī Qalandar and His Muhammadan Poetics,” a lecture for Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University

- Did not attend.

• 2014: “Persian in the Indian Subcontinent: A Thematic Case Study in the Indian Style,” a lecture for Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University.

• 2014: “Muslim-Christian encounters and its literary context: 1150-Now,” in a workshop on behalf of the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland called “The Wide World of Persian: Connections and Contestations, 1500-Today,” University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland.

• 2013: “Poetry of Iranian Martyrs: Poetic Death, Martyr Poetics and Iranian polity,” in the panel ‘Persian Poetry, Martyrdom, and Politics,’ and chaired panel ‘Persian Literature on Iran-Iraq War’, Conference on Classical Poetic Concepts in the New Politics of Twentieth Century Iran, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Leiden: Leiden University.

• 2013: “Yayan: The Fifteenth Century, the Proto-Thematic and the Proto-Rhetorical ‘Split Second’ Before Maktab- i Vuqū‘,” A Workshop on Classical Persian Poetry and Poets: The Timurid and Türkmen Periods, Exeter: University of Exeter.

• 2013: “Gardens, Love, and Urbanity in Classical Persian Literature,” Workshop on Landscape and Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture.

OTHER CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS + LECTURES

• “Persian Gnomic Literature and Heuristics of Piety,” in a panel “Piety, Movement, and Patronage,” at the Sixty- First Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Networks and Connectivity in the Irano- Mediterranean Frontier), Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, (2015)

• “Shāh Ni’matullāh Valī and Predictions of What Future Holds for Iran and its Allies: An Iran’s Perspective Today from an Iranian,” 6th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), Washington D.C., (2013)

• “One region, A Thousand Tongues, and One Estimation: Regional Diversity and U.S. Policies in the Middle East,” University of Virginia NROTC chapter, (2013)

• Life as means to a good death: An Iranian literary mentality and Iranian modus vivendi, ”The Ninth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Lund, Sweden. (2013)

• “Heroism in the Islamic Revolution of Iran: A Philological Query,” 5th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), Washington D.C., (2012)

• “Poetics of angst: A comparative study in the hermeneutics of anger in the poetry of Khāqānī Shirvani (12th c.) and John Milton (16th c.),” “East Meets West—VMI,” Lexington, Virginia, (2011)

• “Some Notes On Vladimir Minorsky and his thoughts on Khāqānī’s Qasida-i Tarsā’iya: 66 Years after his Interpretation of a Poem that Meant to Bamboozle All Parties Involved,” American Oriental Society, Two Hundred and Twenty First meeting, Chicago, Illinois, (2011).

• “Unveiling the Self: Life Narratives of Muslim Women in the Middle East and South Asia,” University of Virginia, Charlottesville, (2012).

• “A Philological and Linguistic Discourse on the Persian Ghazal: A Classical Arabic Perspective,” 31st German Congress of Oriental Studies (DOT), Marburg University, Marburg, Germany, (2010).

• “Kurdish Nationalism as Mirrored in Kurdish Folklore: A Discourse Analysis,” Eighth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Bergen, Norway, (2010).

• “Epic Religiosity and Fundamentals of Nationalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” and Panel Chair World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Barcelona, Spain, (2010).

• “Linguistic nuances in Nationalistic Kurdish Folklore,” 7th Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies (MESEA) Conference, Pécs, Hungary, (2010).

Alireza Korangy, Ph.D.

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• “Death in Iranian Literature,” Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages Cultures (MESALC) Lecture Series. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (2010).

• “Hermeneutics of the Mole “Khāl” as a Poetic Image and a Proxy for Epic-Romantic and Sufi Cosmology and Cosmogony in Classical Persian Verse: 11th –13th cc.,” American Oriental Society, Two Hundred and Twentieth meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, (2010).

• “Poetics of Islam in Contemporary Women Poets of Iran: A Morphological and Historical Perspective (17th-21st cc.),” The 38th AMSS Annual Conference “Islamic Traditions and Comparative Modernities”, Cosponsored by Departments of Religious Studies & Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (2009).

• “Checkmate! Gammon! Analogous Images of Chess, Backgammon, and the Celestial Sphere (falak) in the Poetry of Khāqānī Shirvani,” American Oriental Society, Two Hundred and Nineteenth meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, (2009).

• “What does Da’i Jan Napelon mean now?” “The Iranian Revolution: Thirty Years,” A Conference At Rutgers University, Brunswick: Rutgers University, (2009).

• “Sa’ib, Khāqānī and a Generative Poetic-Linguistic Morphology,” Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Washington D.C., (2008).

• “Imagery of Birds in Classical and Contemporary Persian Verse,” The Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), Boulder, University of Colorado at Boulder, (2008).

• “Mirror and Glass in Persian Poetry and the Poetry of Gulf Region: A discourse in Similarities,” The 2008 Gulf Studies Conference: An interdisciplinary conference on the Gulf region (Arabia, Iran, Iraq), past and present, commemorating 30 years of Gulf Studies in Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2008).

• “Poetics of Diaspora: A discourse Analysis of Nader Naderpour’s Imagery and Metaphors,” A Conference on the theme of “Migration Matters: Immigration, Homelands, and Border Crossings in Europe & the Americas,” 6th Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies (MESEA) conference, Leiden, the Netherlands, (2008).

• “The Functionality of Christian Imagery in the Poetry of Persian Poet Afḍal al-Dīn Khāqānī Shirvani,” Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), Montreal, Canada, (2007).

• ‘Who is her Beloved? A Survey of Women Poets of Iran from Rābi’a Balkhi to Forough Farrukhzad,” 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Vienna, Austria, (2007).

• “Epic Narrative and Mystical Poetics as Proxies of Martyrdom in Modern-Day Iran,” Seventh Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (2007).

• “Was Rudaki Blind?” 30th German Congress of Oriental Studies (DOT), Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany,

(2007).

• “The Historic and Literary Background of Self-Sacrifice in Iran,” Walls of Martyrdom: Tehran’s Propaganda Murals, Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, (2007).

• “A Discourse on Tashbih and Isti’ara in Persian Rhetoric,” Islamic Center of Greater Boston Area, Boston, MA,

(2007).

• “Persian Ode's Beloved: The Celestial Sphere's Accomplice and the Poet's Ironic Refuge,” 11th Annual Graduate Symposium (Theme: Dynamics of Continuity and Change in the Near & Middle East from Antiquity to Present), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, (2007)

LANGUAGES

• Persian (Native)

• English (Native)

• Classical Arabic (Advanced reading)

• Levantine Arabic (Intermediate Oral Proficiency)

• Dari (Advanced reading)

• Gilaki, Tabari, and other Caspian Languages and dialects (Advanced reading and linguistic proficiency)

• Kurmanji Kurdish (Advanced reading and linguistic proficiency)

• Sorani Kurdish (Advanced reading and linguistic proficiency)

• Luri (Advanced reading and linguistic Proficiency)

• Russian (Academic research proficiency)

• French (Academic research proficiency)

• Urdu (Academic research proficiency)

Alireza Korangy, Ph.D.

28 Exeter Street . Unit 1

Arlington, MA

Korangy@(617)02474 -721-gmail.1902 com

• Hindi (Some Academic proficiency)

• Turoyo (Linguistic proficiency)

• Classical Mongolian (Some Linguistic proficiency)

• Old Iranian languages [Middle Persian, Old Persian] (Some grammatical proficiency)

• Pashto (Some grammatical proficiency)

PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS (FORMER AND PRESENT)

• Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA)

• Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

• American Oriental Society (AOS)

• Association of Middle Eastern and African Studies (ASMEA)

• Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT) EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Harvard University (2007) Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Dissertation title: “Development of the Ghazal and Khāqānī Shirvani: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger.” Thesis Advisors: Wheeler McIntosh Thackston Jr., Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, Jay Harris, Harvard University 2007

• M.Phil. Harvard University (2001) Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

• B.A. The College of William & Mary (1994) Interdisciplinary Studies/Ottoman History

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