PRASHANT KESHAVMURTHY is Associate Professor of Persian Studies in 鲍鱼直播鈥檚 Institute of Islamic Studies. He is the author of聽Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi: Building an Ark聽(Routledge, 2016), a monograph on the relations between poetics, mysticism and politics in the works of the Persian poet 鈥楢bd al-Q膩dir Bedil (d.1720) and his circle. Treating Persian and Urdu lyric, epic, strophic and romance forms as cases, he is interested in the uses of and reflections on poetic forms across time and space. He teaches courses on Persian literature, pre-modern Persianate literary theory, selfhood and self-fashioning in Islamic societies and the literatures and histories聽of Islam in India. He is currently聽making a verse translation into English of Amir Khusrow鈥檚 (d.1325), Persian romance,聽Eight Paradises聽as well as working on a study of figures of the foreigner in a millennium of pre-modern Persian literature.聽