Leyla Rouhi
Leyla Rouhi | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (PhD) Oxford University (MA) |
| Thesis | A Comparative Typology of the Medieval Go-between in Light of Western-European, Near-Eastern, and Spanish Cases (1995) |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | literary scholar |
| Sub-discipline | romance literature comparative literature |
| Institutions | Williams College |
Leyla Rouhi is an Iranian-American literary scholar and Preston S. Parish '41 Third Century Professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. 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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