Join us at the UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies for a talk by Farshad Sonboldel (UC San Diego) titled "The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry."
Date: February 13, 2025
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Humanities Gateway HG #1010
Bio: Farshad Sonboldel is the World History and Cultures Librarian at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. in Modern Languages from the University of St. Andrews in the UK, following a Master's in Persian Language and Literature from the University of Tehran, Iran. In addition to his academic research background and publications in English, he is an award-winning poet, literary critic, and researcher in Persian literature.
He has published four books in Persian, including two collections of poems titled Metropolis (2015) and She'r-e Boland-e Sharayet (2019), a research monograph titled Gozaresh-e Nahib-e Jonbesh-e Adabi-e Shahin: Tondar Kia (2016) discussing the works of an avant-garde Persian poet from the first half of the twentieth century, and an edited volume on current trends in literary criticism in Persian literature titled Naqd-e Irad (2020). His recently published book, The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry: Politics of Poetic Experimentation (Bloomsbury Academic), explores the evolution of poetic forms in modern Persian poetry. Sonboldel is also the editor of MELA Notes, the journal of the Middle East Librarians' Association, and the Deputy Editor of the Iranian Studies Journal. He is currently a Bahari Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.