Reza Taher-Kermani

I am a scholar of world literature, with a primary focus on the engagement between nineteenth-century British literature and culture and the cultures of the non-western world that Britain encountered, traded with, and sometimes ruled in this period. My first book, 'The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry', published in July 2020 by Edinburgh University Press, is a study of the manifestations of Persia in Victorian poetry. The book draws on literary, historical, and cross-cultural studies to explore how Persia, and the multitude of notions associated with it, figure in Victorian poetry.

The Persian Presence in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry: A Taxonomy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00210862.2014.961392

Victorian Poetry (in particular Matthew Arnold, Edward FitzGerald, and Robert Browning); Comparative Literature; World Literatures; Translation Studies; Classical Persian Poetry (particularly Firdausi, Khayyám, Attar, and Hafiz); Sufi Traditions in Persian Poetry