Leyla Rouhi
Leyla Rouhi | |
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لیلا روحی | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (PhD) Oxford University (BA) |
| Thesis | A Comparative Typology of the Medieval Go-between in Light of Western-European, Near-Eastern, and Spanish Cases (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Francisco Márquez Villanueva |
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| Discipline | literary scholar |
| Sub-discipline | romance literature comparative literature |
| Institutions | Williams College |
Leyla Rouhi is an Iranian-American literary scholar and Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. Previously, she was Preston S. Parish '41 Third Century Professor of Romance Languages. She is known for her expertise on comparative literature.[1][2]
Books
- Mediation and Love: A Study of the Medieval Go-Between in Key Romance and Near-Eastern Texts, Brill, 1999
- Under the Influence: Questioning the Comparative in Medieval Castile, edited with Cynthia Robinson, Brill, 2004
- The Other Martyrs: Women and the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death, edited with Alireza Korangy, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag Press, 2018
References
- ^ Fleming, John V. (1 October 2003). "Mediation and Love: A Study of the Medieval Go-between in Key Romance and Near-Eastern Texts. Leyla Rouhi". Speculum. 78 (4): 1385–1387. ISSN 0038-7134.
- ^ Patton, Pamela (2006). "Under the Influence: Questioning the Comparative in Medieval Castile". The Medieval Review. 6.
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