GlobalLIT news

October 2020

Multilingualism and Islamic Literary Theory
On 15th March 2019, Professor Rebecca Ruth Gould delivered a lecture about her ERC-funded project Global Literary Theory at the India International Centre, New Delhi. We are now happy to present an audio recording of that lecture.

1 May 2020

We are pleased to welcome Nasrin Askari, who has joined the project as a postdoctoral researcher, and will be focusing on the translation of Persian balagha texts into English.

1 March 2020

We are pleased to welcome Kristof D'hulster, who has joined the project as a postdoctoral researcher, and will be focusing on the translation of Turkic balagha texts into English, and Michelle Quay, who will be focusing on the translation of Persian balagha texts into English.

20 December 2019

We have added an Urdu bibliography, compiled by Muhammad Asif (Government College University, Faisalabad) to our section on the balagha texts of the Islamic world.