Sunil Sharma
Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature
- Title Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature
- Office STH 639
- Email sharma@bu.edu
- Phone 617-358-6253
- Education BA, New York University
PhD, University of Chicago
Sunil Sharma’s areas of expertise are Persian and South Asian literatures. His research interests include poetry and court cultures, history of the book, translation, and travel writing. He has translated prose and poetry from classical and modern Persian and Tajik, Urdu and Hindi. His translations of the medieval Persian poet Amir Khusrau’s lyric and narrative poems appear in In the Bazaar of Love (Penguin, 2010). The translation of an early Urdu travelogue was published in Atiya’s Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain (Oxford University Press, 2011). A forthcoming volume, the result of a multi-year project entitled “Veiled Voyagers: Muslim Women Travelers from Asia and the Middle East” with Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (Sheffield University, UK) and Daniel Majchrowicz (Northwestern University), will be in the form of an anthology of around forty Muslim women’s travel pieces translated into English from a range of languages, including Persian and Urdu.
He is the current president of The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS).
Copies of selected publications can be found here.