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JOCELYN SHARLET
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty of Middle East/South Asian Studies
Ph.D., Princeton University
Email: jcsharlet@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 530.752.1971
Office: 903 Sproul Hall
Office Hours
Introduction
Jocelyn Sharlet has worked on literary patronage in medieval Arabic and Persian literature. Her book explores the uncertainty
and flexibility of patronage as a form of social order and the development of professional status for poets as an alternative
to ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic aspects of identity. She has also worked on the portrayal of informal relationships
in medieval Arabic poetry and stories that offer an indirect commentary on social and political tensions and conflicts. She
is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled Manners and Material Pleasures in Medieval Arabic Literature and an
article project on The Book of Lovers, a medieval Persian mystical narrative poem. In addition to her work in Comparative
Literature, she is a co-founder of and participant in the Middle East/South Asian Studies Program and the Arabic Program.
She has studied or done research with a range of fellowships in Egypt, Syria, Iran and Turkey.
Education:
- Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies: Arabic and Persian literature, Princeton University
- A.B., Near Eastern Studies, Arabic, Princeton University
Teaching at UC Davis
- Classical Literatures of the Islamic World
- Literatures of the Modern Middle East
- Arabic
- Representations of the City in Literature
- Fairy Tales, Fables, and Parables
Book
- Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World: Social Mobility and Status in the
Medieval Middle East and Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
Translation
- Shahrnush Parsipur, Women without Men (a novella), translated from the Persian
with Kamran Talattof (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998 and
New York: The Feminist Press, 2004; fourth printing 2009).
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Voracious Men Meet Their Match: Masculinity and the City in Wattar's The Earthquake," in
Masculinity in Middle Eastern Literature and Film, edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane (Routledge,
forthcoming but delayed by book editor)
- "Tokens of Resentment: Medieval Arabic Stories about Gift Exchange and Social
Conflict," Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, volume 11 (2011), pp. 62-100.
- "The Thought That Counts in Gift Exchange Poetry by Kushajim, al-Sanawbari,
and al-Sari al-Raffa,'" Middle Eastern Literatures, volume 14, no. 3 (December 2011),
pp. 235-270.
- "A Garden of Possibilities in Manuchehri's Spring Garden Panegyrics" Journal
of Persianate Studies Vol. 3 (2010), pp. 1-25.
- "Public Displays of Affection: Male Homoerotic Desire and Sociability in
Medieval Arabic Literature" in
Islam and Homosexuality, 2 volumes, ed. Samar Habib (Praeger, 2010), pp. 1:37-55.
- "Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene in Poetry about Locations by al-Sari al-Raffa'
al-Mawsili" Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 40 No. 2 (2009), 133-169.
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JOCELYN SHARLETAssociate Professor of Comparative Literature Email: jcsharlet@ucdavis.edu |
Introduction
Jocelyn Sharlet has worked on literary patronage in medieval Arabic and Persian literature. Her book explores the uncertainty
and flexibility of patronage as a form of social order and the development of professional status for poets as an alternative
to ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic aspects of identity. She has also worked on the portrayal of informal relationships
in medieval Arabic poetry and stories that offer an indirect commentary on social and political tensions and conflicts. She
is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled Manners and Material Pleasures in Medieval Arabic Literature and an
article project on The Book of Lovers, a medieval Persian mystical narrative poem. In addition to her work in Comparative
Literature, she is a co-founder of and participant in the Middle East/South Asian Studies Program and the Arabic Program.
She has studied or done research with a range of fellowships in Egypt, Syria, Iran and Turkey.
Education:
- Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies: Arabic and Persian literature, Princeton University
- A.B., Near Eastern Studies, Arabic, Princeton University
Teaching at UC Davis
- Classical Literatures of the Islamic World
- Literatures of the Modern Middle East
- Arabic
- Representations of the City in Literature
- Fairy Tales, Fables, and Parables
Book
- Patronage and Poetry in the Islamic World: Social Mobility and Status in the Medieval Middle East and Central Asia (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
Translation
- Shahrnush Parsipur, Women without Men (a novella), translated from the Persian with Kamran Talattof (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1998 and New York: The Feminist Press, 2004; fourth printing 2009).
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Voracious Men Meet Their Match: Masculinity and the City in Wattar's The Earthquake," in Masculinity in Middle Eastern Literature and Film, edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane (Routledge, forthcoming but delayed by book editor)
- "Tokens of Resentment: Medieval Arabic Stories about Gift Exchange and Social Conflict," Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, volume 11 (2011), pp. 62-100.
- "The Thought That Counts in Gift Exchange Poetry by Kushajim, al-Sanawbari, and al-Sari al-Raffa,'" Middle Eastern Literatures, volume 14, no. 3 (December 2011), pp. 235-270.
- "A Garden of Possibilities in Manuchehri's Spring Garden Panegyrics" Journal of Persianate Studies Vol. 3 (2010), pp. 1-25.
- "Public Displays of Affection: Male Homoerotic Desire and Sociability in Medieval Arabic Literature" in Islam and Homosexuality, 2 volumes, ed. Samar Habib (Praeger, 2010), pp. 1:37-55.
- "Inside and Outside the Pleasure Scene in Poetry about Locations by al-Sari al-Raffa' al-Mawsili" Journal of Arabic Literature Vol. 40 No. 2 (2009), 133-169.