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Jocelyn Sharlet
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Princeton University
Email: jcsharlet@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 530.752.1971
Office: 903 Sproul Hall
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Introduction
Jocelyn Sharlet recently completed a book entitled Social Mobility in Medieval Arabic and Persian Literary Culture, and is currently working on a book
entitled Morals, Manners, and Material Life in Medieval Arabic Literary Culture. She has lived and worked in Egypt and Syria for over a year each, and in Iran and Turkey for a summer each.
Awards include grants from the American Research Center in Egypt, the American Institute of Iranian Studies, Fulbright, and Mellon. She is a co-founder of the Arabic program at UC Davis, established
with a Title VIA grant to the Program in Middle East and South Asian Studies, of which she is also a co-founder.
Education:
- Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies: Arabic and Persian literature, Princeton University (2002)
- A.B., Princeton University (1991)
Teaching at UC Davis
- Classical Literatures of the Islamic World
- Literatures of the Modern Middle East
- Representations of the City in Literature
- Fairy Tales, Fables, and Parables
- Major Works of Western Culture: The Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
- Arabic (independent studies)
- Persian (independent studies)
Selected Publications
- Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men, tr. Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet (Syracuse, 1998 and The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2004)
- "Voracious Men Meet Their Match" in Masculinity in Middle Eastern Literature and Film, ed. Lahoucine Ouzgane (Routledge, 2008)
- "Public Displays of Affection: Male Homoerotic Desire and Sociability in Medieval Arabic Literature" in Contemporary Studies in Homosexuality amd the Muslim World, ed. Samar Habib
- "Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene in Poetry about Locations by al-Sarī al-Raffāʾ al-Mawsilī" under revision
- "A Garden of Possibilities: Patronage in Manūchihrī's Spring Garden Panegyrics" under revision
- "Medieval Arabic Narratives and Poetry of Gift Exchange" in progress
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Jocelyn SharletAssistant Professor of Comparative Literature Email: jcsharlet@ucdavis.edu |
Introduction
Jocelyn Sharlet recently completed a book entitled Social Mobility in Medieval Arabic and Persian Literary Culture, and is currently working on a book
entitled Morals, Manners, and Material Life in Medieval Arabic Literary Culture. She has lived and worked in Egypt and Syria for over a year each, and in Iran and Turkey for a summer each.
Awards include grants from the American Research Center in Egypt, the American Institute of Iranian Studies, Fulbright, and Mellon. She is a co-founder of the Arabic program at UC Davis, established
with a Title VIA grant to the Program in Middle East and South Asian Studies, of which she is also a co-founder.
Education:
- Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies: Arabic and Persian literature, Princeton University (2002)
- A.B., Princeton University (1991)
Teaching at UC Davis
- Classical Literatures of the Islamic World
- Literatures of the Modern Middle East
- Representations of the City in Literature
- Fairy Tales, Fables, and Parables
- Major Works of Western Culture: The Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
- Arabic (independent studies)
- Persian (independent studies)
Selected Publications
- Shahrnush Parsipur, Women Without Men, tr. Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet (Syracuse, 1998 and The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2004)
- "Voracious Men Meet Their Match" in Masculinity in Middle Eastern Literature and Film, ed. Lahoucine Ouzgane (Routledge, 2008)
- "Public Displays of Affection: Male Homoerotic Desire and Sociability in Medieval Arabic Literature" in Contemporary Studies in Homosexuality amd the Muslim World, ed. Samar Habib
- "Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene in Poetry about Locations by al-Sarī al-Raffāʾ al-Mawsilī" under revision
- "A Garden of Possibilities: Patronage in Manūchihrī's Spring Garden Panegyrics" under revision
- "Medieval Arabic Narratives and Poetry of Gift Exchange" in progress