Curriculum Vitae HAIDAR KHEZRI

Visiting Assistant Professor Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME) Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) Indiana University, Bloomington, 3008, Global and International Studies Building, East Wing; 355 N. Jordan Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405-1105 Phone: (812) 856- 9813 Fax: (812) 855-7500 [email protected]

APPOINTMENTS

2015-2016 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies; College of Art and Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

2014-2016 Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME), School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

2011- 2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Literatures, Department of Kurdish Language and Culture, Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

2007-2011 Lecturer and Instructor at the Department of Persian Language and Literature, Damascus University, Syria.

2007-2009 Lecturer and Instructor at the Department of Persian Language and Literature, Al-Bacth University, Ḥomṣ, Syria.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Comparative Literature (Islamic and Islamicate World), poetry, comparative religion, genre in literature, critical theory, post-colonial literature, gender studies, translation, world literature.

EDUCATION AND THESES 2007-2011 Ph.D. in Arabic Literature, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Damascus University. Thesis title: “Comparative Studies between Arabic and Persian Literatures”.

2004-2006 Masters of Arts & Sciences, Arabic Language and Literature (Comparative Literature; Arabic and Persian), “Tarbiat Modarres University” Tehran. Master Thesis entitled “A Comparative Study of the Romantic School in the Contemporary Arabic and Persian Poetry”.

1999-2003 Bachelors of Arts & Sciences, Arabic Language & Literature, “Razi University” Kermanshah.

AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS

2014-2016 Title VI, U.S Department of Education, School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME), Indiana University, Bloomington.

2012-2014 Scientific Research Projects Funding, (Bilimsel Araştırma Projeleri), Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

2007-2011 Full tuition scholarship; Syrian Ministry of High education; Ph.D. studies in Arabic language and literature (Comparative Literature) at Damascus University.

2007-2011 Full tuition scholarship; Jordanian Ministry of High education; Ph.D. studies in Arabic language and literature. (Decline for Syrian scholarship)

2007-2011 Teaching Grant; Damascus University; Lecturing in Persian Language and literature.

2007-2009 Teaching Grant; Al-Bacth University, Ḥomṣ, Syria; Lecturing in Persian language and literature.

Short Term Research and Travel grants

2015 Indiana University, Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME), Travel and accommodation grant for attending The 18th Annual Conference of the National Council for Less Commonly Thought Languages (NCOLCTL), 24- 26, 2015 at Washington, D.C.

2013 Mardin Artuklu University Short Term Research, Travel and Accommodation Grant for XII International Symposium in Comparative Literature in the Arab World, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Rabat, Morocco. 29-30 April 2013. 2013 Mardin Artuklu University Short Term Research, Travel and Accommodation Grant for 1st International Academic Conference on Kurds and Kurdistan in History, Salahaddin University & Mardin Artuklu University, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. (16-18, April, 2013).

2013 Mardin Artuklu University Short Term Research, Travel and Accommodation Grant for Symposia Iranica, 1st Iranian Studies Graduate Conference, University of ST Andrews, United Kingdom, (13 – 14 April 2013).

2012 Mardin Artuklu University Short Term Research, Travel and Accommodation Grant for international Congress of Comparative Literature with the title “Meeting of Cultures and Values”, Kirikkale University, Turkey. (1-3 November, 2012)

2012 Mardin Artuklu University Short Term Research, Travel and Accommodation Grant for National Congress of Persian-Arabic Comparative Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

2010 Lebanese University Travel and Accommodation Grant for 1st International Conference on Comparative Arabic and Persian Literatures, Beīrūt, Lebanese University.

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

2015-6 “Kafka’s Message” by Sadiq Hedayat. Translation and introduction by Haidar Khezri. (Underway for publication). In English.

2015 “It is Only Sound that Remains”, an introduction about feminism in the Islamic(ate) World with the life and poetry of Forough Farrokhzad (1935- 1967), with translation of two collections of Forough’s poetry (Another Birth and Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season) from Persian to Kurdish, Kurdish Women Union. In Kurdish. (Forthcoming)

2013 Comparative Literature in Iran and the Arab World, 1903-2012, Samt, Tehran. This study focuses on the relations between Arabic and Persian literatures from the classical period to the present, concentrating in particular on how Iranian and Arab intellectuals adapted comparative literature for political and religious purposes and sought to place this discipline within an Islamic framework. In Arabic.

BOOK CHAPTERS

2014 “From the Past to the Future, East to the West: Yousef Bakkar and Comparative Literature” in Malʼā al-Sanābil: Dirāsāt Muhdāt ʼilā Yusef Bakkar, ed. cAbbās cAbdulḥalīm cAbbās, Beirut, Dār Ṣādīr. Pp. 411 – 426. In Arabic. 2013 “Theory, Time and Space in Comparative Literature in Iran”, IV. International Congress of Comparative Literature. Kirikkale University Press, Turkey. Group of Essays. Pp. 321 – 338. In Persian.

2012 “Comparative Investigations between Persian and Arabic: Past, Present and Future”, National Congress of Persian-Arabic Comparative Literature, (Razi University, Kermanshah & Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature in Tarbiat Modarress University) Press. pp. 437-467. Selected as the best article of the congress and reprinted in The Journal of Critical & Comparative Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, 1/2 1391. Pp.1-41. In Persian.

2009 “The Image of Jerusalem in Persian Literature” in Jerusalem in Iranian Culture, Damascus, Ministry of Culture, Syrian Public Organization for Books, pp. 27 – 66. In Arabic.

Peer-reviewed Academic Articles

2015 “Arabic Comparative Literature: Intersections with West Asian Literature”, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics; (New paradigms in the study of Middle Eastern Literatures), American University in Cairo, No 35, pp. 40 – 67.

ادﺑﯿﺎت ﺗﻄﺒﯿﻘﯽ ﻋﺮﺑﯽ وارﺗﺒﺎط آن ﺑﺎ ﺣﻮزه ی ادﺑﯿﺎت “  Has been translated to Persian under the title ”در ﻏﺮب آﺳﯿﺎ

ﺋەدەﺑﯽ ﺑەراوردﮐﺎری ﻋەرەﺑﯽ و ﭘەﯾﻮەﻧﺪی ﺑە ﮐﺎﯾەی “  Has been translated to Kurdish under the title “ﺋەدەﺑﯽ ﻟە رۆژاوای ﺋﺎﺳﯿﺎدا 2015 “From Macarrat al-Nucmān to Shiraz: ‘Abu al-cAlā’ al-Macarrī influence in Fereidoon Tavallali”, The Journal of Critical & Comparative Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, 4/16, 1393. Pp.63-84. In Arabic.

2014 “Standing on the Border: Comparative Literature in Turkey”, The Journal of Adabyat-e Tatbiqi (Comparative Literature), Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring & Summer, Tehran, p.p 89-106. In Persian.

2014 “Grim Legacy: Image of Kurds in Turkish Culture”, “NuBihar Akademi”, (International Peer-reviewed Journal of Kurdish Studies), Vol. 1, No. 1. Spring, Istanbul, pp. 58 – 68. In Kurdish.

2012 “A Theoretical Bibliography of Comparative Literature in Iran and The Arab World from the Beginning to 2012”, The Journal of Adabyat-e Tatbiqi (Comparative Literature), Journal of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall & Winter, Tehran, pp. 147 – 178. In Persian. 2012 “Comparative Investigations between Persian and Arabic: Past, Present and Future”, The Journal of Critical & Comparative Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, 1/2 1391. Pp.1-41. In Persian.

2011 - 2012 “The Image of Damascus in the Poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmī”, The Journal of “al-Turath al-cArabi”, Arab Writer Union, Damascus, 123/ 124. pp. 259 – 247.

2011 “The Image of Arabs in Persian School Books” The Journal of “Mukaddime”, Mardin Artuklu University,Turkey. 4. pp. 81-110. In Arabic.

2009 “The Influence of Russian Formalism in Comparative Literature”, The Journal of the Iranian Association of Arabic Language and Literature, Tarbiat Modarress University Press, Tehran, 10 (3). pp.19-37. In Arabic.

2009 “Syrian Contemporary Political History”, Cultural and Artistic Specialized Journal of Introducing Syria, Iranian Cultural Center, Damascus, 16 (4), 1388, Pp. 6- 19. In Persian.

2009 “Persian Language and Major Advocates for Islamic Unity”, Cultural and Artistic Specialized Journal of Introducing Syria, Iranian Cultural Center, Damascus, 12 (3). In Persian.

2008 “Comparative Literature in Syria”, Cultural and Artistic Specialized Journal of Introducing Syria, Iranian Cultural Center, Damascus, 10( 3 ). Pp. 20 – 31. In Persian.

2008 “Narcissism in the Poetry of cOmar Ibn ’Abi Rabīcah”, written in collaboration with Professor Hamed Sedghi and Malek Pīrzādnyā, Āfāq al-Ḥaḍarah al- Islāmyyah, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran. 22, 387- 414. In Arabic.

TRANSLATION

2015 “Close Encounters of Diverse Kinds” by Jonathan Z. Smith (The University of Chicago), translated in collaboration with Umberto Cicchetti from English into Persian. (Underway for publication).

2015 “The Geography of Comparative Literature” by Rebecca Gould (Yale-NUS College), translated from English into Persian, Adabyāt-i Fārsi-i Mucāṣir (Contemporary Persian Literature), Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, (Fall 2015). (Forthcoming).

2015 “Oh my father, I am Yusuf”, “Stranger in a far city”, and “Now … in the exile” by Mahmoud Darwish, translated from Arabic to Kurdish. (Mulemma, Mardin Artuklu University, 3, winter 2015, 5 pp. (Forthcoming). 2013 “Another Birth” and “I’m Depressed” by Forūgh-i Farrukhzād, translated from Persian to Kurdish. (Mulemma, Mardin Artuklu University, 2, Summer 2013, pp 90 - 95)

COURSES TAUGHT

Indiana University, Bloomington; (Department of Central Eurasian Studies; Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, IU Summer Language Workshop)

2015

- Introductory Sorani Kurdish I - Introductory Sorani Kurdish II - Intermediate Sorani Kurdish I - Intermediate Sorani Kurdish II

MARDIN ARTUKLU UNIVERSITY; Turkey (Department of Kurdish Language and Culture; Department of Turkish Language and Literature; Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literature)

2013 - 2014

- Comparative Literature - Intermediate Kurdish II - Elementary Persian I - Intermediate Persian II

2012 - 2013

- [Introduction to] Arabic Literature - Elementary Kurdish I - Elementary Persian I - Intermediate Persian II 2011 - 2012

- Introduction to Kurdish Literature

DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY; Syria (Department of Persian Language and Literature)

2007-2011

- Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism - Impact of Qurān and Ḥadith on Persian Literature - Contemporary Persian Literature - Persian Literature I - Persian Literature II - Persian Grammar I - Persian Grammar II - Method of Writing - Intermediate Texts - Conversation - Language Lab

Al-BAcTH UNIVERISY, Syria (Department of Persian Language and Literature)

2007-2011

- Comparative Literature - History of Iranian Culture and Civilization before Islam - Contemporary Persian Literature - The Art of Translation - Method of Writing - Introductory Texts - Method of writing

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2014 “Invisible Nation: Kurds and Kurdistan in the Shadow of History”, 14 July, Institute for Curriculum and campus internationalization (ICCI), Summer Language Workshop, School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.

2014 “From Death to a New Birth: Journey of Majnūn Leylā in the Islamic/ate World”, 22 April, Center for the Study of the Middle East (CSME), School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.

2014 “The Kurds: The past, Present and Future”, 18 – 21 May, Institute for Curriculum and campus internationalization (ICCI), Center for the Study of Global Change, School of Global and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.

2013 “Toward a New Language; “A Separation” and (Post) Colonial Language”, for 2nd International Symposium on Language and Communication: Exploring novelties, ISLC 2013, 17-19 June, İZMİR – Turkey (The abstract was accepted for presentation and publication).

2013 “From Margin to Center; Comparative Literature in the Arab World” for “Arab Comparativists today”, XII International Symposium in Honor of Said Allouch, Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Rabat. 29-30 April 2013 (Abstract published in conference ACTA). 2013 “Grim Legacy: Image of Kurds in Turkish Culture”, 1st International Academic Conference on Kurds and Kurdistan in History “Kurds and Kurdistan in Ottoman Period” Salahaddin University & Mardin Artuklu University, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. (16-18, April, 2013).

2013 “From Margin to Margin; Comparative Literature in Iran”, for Symposia Iranica, 1st Iranian Studies Graduate Conference, University of ST Andrews, United Kingdom, (13 – 14 April 2013). (Abstract published in conference ACTA pp. 26 – 27)

2012 “Theory, Time and Space in Comparative Literature in Iran”, for international Congress of Comparative Literature with the title “Meeting of Cultures and Values”, Kirikkale University, Turkey. (1-3 November, 2012)

2012 “Comparative Investigations between Persian and Arabic: Past, Present and Future Perspective”, National Congress of Persian-Arabic Comparative Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah.

2010 “A Bibliography of Comparative Studies between Arabic and Persian Literatures from the Beginning to 2011”, Beīrūt, Comparative Arabic and Persian Literature, Lebanese University.

2009 “Image of Arabs in Persian School Books”, the Conference on the Depiction of Arabs and Muslims in World Literature, Damascus University.

2008 “The Role of the Language in Enhancing the Cultural Relationships Between Nations”, at the Arabic Cultural Center in Latakia.

2007 “Aleppo in Arabic and Persian Literature “Ḥalab Al-Shahba’ Between Two Cultures: Arabic and Persian”, Aleppo University.

2007 “Literary Relations between Arabs and Persians” Cultural Relationships Between Arabs and Persians, Faculty of Art (Swaidā’), Damascus University.

Professional Language Training

2014 – 2015

Indiana University, Bloomington

Kurdish:

Author of a three-year Communicative Sorani Kurdish based on current trends in communicative language teaching and according to American Council on the Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL). (Includes: text books, syllabus, scope and sequence, digital audio/video, exercises etc.)

2007 – 2011

Damascus University Persian:

Collaboration in writing and editing four-year syllabus for undergraduate students in various Syrian Universities. Finished handbook published by The Iranian Cultural Center in Damascus. Group of authors: Extended Syllabus for Department of Persian Language and Literature at Syrian Universities (Sarfaṣlhāye Tashrīḥye Drūs-i Reshteye Zabān ve Adabyāt-i Fārsī Dar Dānishgāhhāye Sureah), Iranian Cultural Center, Damascus, 1 th, 2008. 185 pp. In Persian and Arabic.

Services to academy & Society

2015 Peer- reviewer for Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics; (New paradigms in the study of Middle Eastern Literatures, No. 35), American University in Cairo.

2014-present Peer-reviewer for NuBihar Akademi, (International Peer-reviewed Journal of Kurdish Studies), Istanbul, Turkey.

20011-14 Peer-reviewer, translator for Mukaddime, Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey.

2008 Collaboration in writing and editing (Persian and Arabic): Extended Syllabus for Department of Persian Language and Literature at Syrian Universities (Sarfaṣlhāye Tashrīḥye Drūs-i Reshteye Zabān ve Adabyāt-i Fārsī Dar Dānishgāhhāye Sureah), Iranian Cultural Center, Damascus, 1 th, 2008. In Persian and Arabic.

Professional Membership

2015 National Council of Less Commonly Taught Language (NCOLCTL)

LANGUAGES

Kurdish (native in Sorani dialect, near-native in Kurmanji dialect and Gorani dialect); Persian (native); Arabic (near-native in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic (fuṣḥā’) and colloquial Levantine Arabic); English (near-native); Turkish (advanced in Ottoman Turkish and Modern Turkish); Azari (advanced).