Mohsen Ashtiany

Mohsen Ashtiany is a former Research Scholar (1997-2023) at the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Stockholm Collegium of World Literary History and has contributed to its project, Literature: A World History, ed. David Damrosch et al. (4 vols.; 2022). In collaboration with Professor C. E. Bosworth, he translated The “History” of Beyhaqi (3 vols.; including a Commentary, 2011). He has contributed to Art and Stories from Mughal India (Catalog of Paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016); the Handbook of Narrative Factuality, ed. M. Fludernik and M-L. Ryan (2019); Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings, ed. Jan M. Ziolkowski (2022); and he has edited Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500. Romantic and Didactic Genres (in the series A History of Persian Literature, 2023).