Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (, born February 6, 1944 in Mashhad, Iran) is a Persian literary figure and Iranologist.

Life

Education Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak holds a BA in English Literature and a Teacher's Certificate from the University of Tehran and Military University, Tehran, respectively. He got an MA in English Literature from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University.

Career Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak was a professor of near eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Washington for nineteen years. He is currently a professor and founding director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Karimi-Hakkak has written nineteen books and over one hundred major scholarly articles. He has contributed articles on Iran and Persian literature to many reference works, including Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Iranica, and The Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. A specialist in modern Persian literature, his works have been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Japanese, and Persian. He has served as president of the Association for Iranian Studies (formerly, International Society for Iranian Studies) and other professional academic organizations.

Karimi-Hakkak's was awarded the Yarshater lectureship for the year 2003 for contributions to Iranian studies. Karimi-Hakkak was also invited by the Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies-Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as visiting professor in 2011.

Works and publications

Adab-e Sarf-e Chai Dar Hozour-e Gorg آداب صرف چای در حضور گرگ, (Contributor), 1993 Edges of Poetry: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition), 1995 (Translator) Remembering the Flight: Twenty Poems, 1997 (Translator) Iranian Studies: Selections from the Literature of Iran, 1977–1997, 1997

Walking with the Wind (Voices and Visions in Film, 2), 2002

An Eyeful of Earth, An Eyeful of Ocean: Selected Love Poems of Mandana Zandian, 2014 literature: its existence, its appearance / (بود و نمودِ سخن: متن ادبی، بافتار اجتماعی و تاریخ ادبیات (گزیده مقاله‌های ادبی, Persian Edition, 2016 A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran (Iranian Studies Series), 2020