Please join us for a book talk entitled "Transgressive Icon of Modern Iran: Presenting the First Critical Edition of Forugh Farrokhzad’s Collected Poems" by Domenico Ingenito, hosted by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies.
Date: October 8
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Humanities Gateway #1341
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Domenico Ingenito is Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and Persian Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, core faculty member of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and former director of the UCLA Program on Central Asia (2016-2021). His research interests center on ancient and medieval Iran, Persian poetry, visual culture of Iran and Central Asia, gender and translations studies, comparative literature, and premodern manuscript culture. His most recent books are Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Brill, 2020) and the Italian translation of Forugh Farrokhzad’s collected poems (Io parlo dai confini della notte. Forugh Farrokhzad: tutte le poesie, Bompiani, 2023, 800 pp.) that includes a critical edition of the original Persian texts. His current research projects focus on kingship and desire in Ghaznavid praise poetry and the relationship between artistic creativity, Aristotelian poetics, and the visual arts in the narrative poems (Khamsa) of Nezami Ganjavi. Professor Ingenito co-leads the UCLA Afghan Scholars at Risk program, which aims to bring to campus scholars and writers who face repression in Afghanistan.