Zainab Mahmood Assistant Professor

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Zainab Mahmood常任助理教授
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of English
所在单位人文科学研究院
研究方向Literary circulation and exchange in pre-modern Islamic cities, especially in Arabic and Persian, and its reception literature in global, colonial and postcolonial contexts; British and American Muslim expression in English literature
联系方式zainab@@shanghaitech.edu.cn
 

 

Educational background
 


1996.08-2000.05, Haverford College, USA, B.A. in English Lit/Religion

2000.08-2002.05, Harvard University, USA, M.A. in Near Eastern Studies

2008.08-2018.05, New York University, PhD in Middle Eastern Studies



Prior employment
 


2003.06-2005.06 Asia Society, Associate, Teach Asia program

2005.06-2008.08, Columbia University, Assistant Director, South Asia Institute

2015.08-2020.05, New School University, Adjunct Assistant Professor

2020.08-2021.12, New York University, Assistant Professor


 Profile
 

Zainab earned her MA from Harvard University's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department, and her PhD in Arabic and Persian Literature from NYU's Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies department. She has served as Assistant Director of the South Asia Institute at Columbia University.

 

Zainab is a scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu literary sources. She focuses on the exegetical, philosophical, poetic, mystical and travel writing produced and circulated in pre-modern Islamic centers of knowledge. She regards the pre-modern Islamic world as multilingual and multicultural, producing a thriving book culture that prized literary exchanges across genre, geographic and linguistic lines. She is particularly interested in the points of contact produced by this culture of circulation, and how these texts continue to be received in increasingly global, colonial and post-colonial contexts. Zainab also focuses on British and American Muslim cultural and literary expression in English writing, and the effects of colonialism on Muslim experiences and expression. 

Proposed Collaborations 
 

Video Gaming Culture and Pre-Modern Literature; Silk Road Encounters; China-Pakistan Literary/Historic Relations; Anglophone South Asian Writing






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