Shirin Khanmohamadi
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Assistant Professor, Comparative and World Literature Department
Contact Information
Office: HUM 326 Phone: (415) 338-7035 Email: shirin1@sfsu.edu Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~shirin1/ |
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi (B.A. Brown, 1991; Ph.D. Columbia, 2005) is an Assistant Professor in the Comparative and World Literature department at San Francisco State University, where she specializes in comparative medieval European literature, premodern travel and ethnographic writing, cross-cultural and confessional representation within medieval literature, and literary cross-fertilization between the medieval European and Islamic worlds. She has recently published or forthcoming work in New Medieval Literatures, Exemplaria, and Arthuriana. She is currently completing a book-length study of premodern ethnographic poetics, 'In Light of Another´s Word': writing ethnography before the gaze.
Her teaching and research interests include Comparative Medieval Literary Study, Premodern Travel and Ethnographic literature, Medieval Europe and the Islamic World, Medieval Tale Collections (1001 Nights, Decameron, Canterbury Tales), and Epic and Romance. Some of her recent publications include "The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck´s Mission to Mongolia," forthcoming this year in New Medieval Literatures, volume 10 (2008); "Casting a 'Sideways Glance' at the Crusades: the Voice of the Other in Joinville´s Vie de Saint Louis", Exemplaria vol. 22 no. 3 (2010): 177-99; and "Salvaging native culture, appropriating native voice: the cultural memory of Marie de France's Lais, Forthcoming, Arthuriana, 2011.
Courses Taught:
CWL 230: World Literature
CWL 250: Fables and Tales
CWL 420: Travel and the Literary Imagination
CWL 421: Celtic Literature
CWL 424: The Multicultural Middle Ages
CWL 800: Introduction to Graduate Study in Comparative Literature
CWL 815: Theory at the Border: Anthropology and Literature
CWL 820: Medieval Encounters
