Translating and Teaching Premodern Persian Literature Session 2 9:30-11:00 Chair: Kamran Rastegar, Tufts University Distilled Transcendence or Mystical Mush? Translating Persian Sufi Poetry for the New Age-Frank Lewis, University of Chicago Rumi and "Islam": The Perils of Academic Translations of Rumi's Masnavi-Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University Baroque Modern: Sa'eb and the Contemporary American Poetic Idiom-Paul Losensky, Indiana University 11:00-12:00 Q&A 1:00-2:00 Keynote Veiled Voices: Who Speaks in Translation? Dick Davis, Ohio State University