Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased to announce EMBODYING THE BELOVED: (Homo) eroticism and Embodiment in Medieval Sufism, a lecture presented by Matthew Thomas Miller and hosted by the Library of Congress and Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at University of Maryland, College Park.
Matthew Miller is a PhD student in the Program in Comparative Literature and graduate certificate program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is completing his dissertation entitled “The Poetics of the Sufi Carnival: The ‘Rogue Lyrics’ (Qalandariyyāt) of Sanā’ī, ‘Attār, and ‘Erāqī.”
Mr. Miller is currently a Roshan Institute Research Fellow at University of Maryland and Associate Director for Roshan Institute’s Digital Project in Persian Humanities. Previously, he was Dissertation Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis (2013-2014), a Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Fellow (2012-2013), and a Mellon Sawyer Doctoral Fellow (2011-2012). He is the author of the forthcoming (2015) “Fakhr al-Dīn ‘Irāqī: Poet and Mystic,” in Religious and Mystical Literature (Volume VI of A History of Persian Literature Series).
Thursday, September 3, 2015 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Thomas Jefferson Building, African Middle Eastern Reading Room, LJ-220 | Library of Congress