{"id":1476,"date":"2019-08-27T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1476"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:20:18","slug":"sunil-sharma","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/profile\/sunil-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Sharma\u2019s 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.\u00a0<span>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&#8217;s lyric and narrative poems appear in\u00a0<em>In the Bazaar of Love<\/em>\u00a0(Penguin, 2010). The translation of an early Urdu travelogue was published in\u00a0<em>Atiya&#8217;s Journeys: A Muslim Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2011).\u00a0A forthcoming volume, the result of a multi-year<\/span>\u00a0project entitled \u201cVeiled Voyagers: Muslim Women Travelers from Asia and the Middle East\u201d 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\u2019s travel pieces translated into English from a range of languages, including Persian and Urdu.<\/p>\n<p>He is the current president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persianatesocieties.org\/\">The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of selected publications can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/hcommons.org\/members\/sunilsharma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1476\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}