Early Travel Accounts by South Asian and Persian Women, with Sunil Sharma (Jan. 31, 2023)

The BU Center for the Study of Asia’s BUCSA Asia Forum series is pleased to invite you to attend a presentation by

Sunil Sharma 

(Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University)

Early Travel Accounts by South Asian and Persian Women

Tuesday Jan. 31, 2023 from 5:00 to 6:15 pm [note the change in date/time]

at the Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Boston MA 02215

About the Speaker:

Sunil Sharma’s areas of expertise are premodern Persian and South Asian literatures. His research interests include poetry and court cultures, history of the book, and travel writing. His last book, Mughal Arcadia: Persian Poetry in an Indian Court  (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017) is a study of early modern Persianate literature.

The output of a multi-year project entitled “Veiled Voyagers: Muslim Women Travelers from Asia and the Middle East” with Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield) and Daniel Majchrowicz (Northwestern University) is published as Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women (Indiana University Press). The book recovers, translates and analyzes Muslim women’s travel writing from a range of languages in order to draw out the gendered relationships that inhere between travel and Muslim identities, nationalism, and the shaping of global power.

He has served as president of The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS).