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Matthew Thomas Miller

Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland; Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD); and affiliate faculty of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) & the Religious Studies and Comparative Literature Programs

  1. Course: The Islamicate World 2.0: Studying Islamic Cultures through Computational Textual Analysis

    2021 Iteration of the Course …

    • on Digital Humanities, Course

  2. Course: Introduction to Global Digital Humanities

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    • on Digital Humanities, Course

  3. List of Persian-related Sessions at the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention

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    • on MLA, Modern Language Association Convention, Persian Literature

  4. Course: Introduction to Persian Literature in Translations

    [Note: First taught in Spring 2015, revised Fall 2017] …

    • on Course, Persian Literature, Shah-Nameh, New Poetry, Rumi, 'Attar, 'Eraqi, Khaqani, Sohrab Sepehri, Forugh Farrokhzad, Parvin E’tesami, Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlu, Siavash Kasra’i, and Simin Behbahani, Sadeq Hedayat, M.A. Jamalzadeh, Bozorg Alavi

  5. New Course: Lyrics of Mystical Love, East and West

    Lyrics of Mystical Love: East and West is a journey through the mystical love poetry of some of the world’s most important mystical poets: Rumi, Ibn ‘Arabi, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Ávila, amongst many others. Like any journey, this journey will require certain preparations and provisions. We will need to prepare ourselves for this adventure by studying the religious, social, and political contexts in which these mystical poets wrote (e.g. Ernst) and also discuss some of the (theoretical) pitfalls that others have identified along the route (e.g., King). Ultimately, however, this journey is a poetic journey. In other words, the class and its projects will primarily revolve around visits to the poetic worlds of different poets. We will examine the work of each poet through a variety of different lens of literary analysis (e.g., Culler) and also read a number of works that exemplify the literary approach to analysis of mystical poetry (e.g., Keshavarz, Sells). …

    • on Mysticism, Poetry, Rumi, 'Attar, Meister Eckhart, Ibn 'Arabi, Marguerite Porete, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, Course

  6. 'The Kite Runner' Critiqued: New Orientalism Goes to the Big Screen

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    • on Kite Runner, New Orientalism, Khaled Hosseini, Afghanistan, Public Scholarship, Orientalism