Sunil Sharma
PROFESSOR OF PERSIANATE & COMPARATIVE LITERATURE; CONVENER OF HINDI-URDU, PERSIAN; DIRECTOR, GLOBAL MEDIEVAL STUDIES PROGRAM
- Education
- PhD, University of Chicago
- Office
- STH 639
- sharma@bu.edu
- Phone
- 617-358-6253
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 was the president of The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS).
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