New publication: The Necklace of the Pleiades
This volume collects 24 essays (three of them in Persian) on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world, presented to Professor Heshmat Moayyad of the University of Chicago, on his 80th birthday, in recognition and gratitude for his long and fruitful career as scholar and teacher in the field of […]
Persian poet enters English
The first English-language edition and translation of the work of Rudaki, known as the father of Persian poetry, will appear with Purdue University Press this spring under the title Father of Songs: Rudaki and his Poetry. It is the work of Dr. Sassan Tabatabai, a scholar of medieval Persian literature who began teaching First-Year Persian […]
Two New Language Departments Replace MFLL
Boston University’s language programs were given a new face, and an injection of new energy, last spring when the Board of Trustees approved the creation of two new departments, Romance Studies (RS) and Modern Languages and Comparative Literature (MLCL), to replace the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (MFLL). The change takes effect this […]
Catherine Yeh. Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850 – 1910
In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh, Associate Professor of Chinese, explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside of the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not subject to the strict authority of the Chinese government. At the […]