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Jeffrey Einboden

Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor
19th-century American Literature, Comparative Literature
Office: RH 329
Email: einboden@niu.edu
Educational Background
- Ph.D. University of Cambridge; 2005
- M.Phil., University of Cambridge; 2001
- M.A. York University, Toronto; 2000
- B.A. York University, Toronto; 1999
Professional Interests
- American Romanticism
- Middle Eastern Translation
- Transatlantic Literatures
- Sufi Poetry
- Scriptural Languages
Selected Publications
- Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives (Oxford UP, 2020)
- The Qur'an and Kerygma (Equinox, 2019)
- The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture (Oxford UP, 2016)
- Islam and Romanticism: Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson. London: Oneworld, 2014.
- Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature in Middle Eastern Languages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
- “‘Call me Ismā‘īl’: The Arabic Moby-Dick of Ihsān ‘Abbās” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 12:1 (2010): 3-19.
- "Stoicism or Sufism?: Hammer-Purgstall's Persian Meditations." Middle Eastern Literatures 13:1 (2010): 49-68.
- The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz, co-authored with John Slater (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2009).
- “A Qur’ānic Milton: From Paradise to al-Firdaws” Milton Quarterly 43:3 (2009): 183-194.
- “The Genesis of Weltliteratur: Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan and Kerygmatic Pluralism.” Literature & Theology 19:3 (2005): 238-250. Rpt. in 100 seminal papers from Oxford Journals. 2006 <http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/centenary>.