The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture by Jeffrey Einboden

Jeffrey Einboden is a Professor in the English Department at Northern Illinois University, and a 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, which supported his completion of The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture, a monograph published by Oxford University Press in 2016.

Einboden's other recent books include his Islam and Romanticism: Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson (Oneworld, 2014), which accents the generative effects of Islamic influence upon German, British and American Romantics, and his Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature in Middle Eastern Languages, published in 2013 by Edinburgh University Press, which reads classic American authors as they now appear in Arabic, Hebrew and Persian translation.  

A specialist in early American literature, Islamic reception and Middle Eastern translation, Einboden received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 2005, exploring Ralph Waldo Emerson’s renditions of Sufi poetry - research which informed his own book-length translation of the Persian poet, Muḥammad Shamsuddīn Ḥāfiẓ: The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz (Fons Vitae, 2009; co-authored with John Slater).    

Einboden's research into Middle Eastern translation and the Western canon has also appeared in journals such as Middle Eastern Literatures, the Journal of Qur’anic Studies, Translation and Literature, Milton Quarterly, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review and Literature and Theology. In 2006, Einboden’s article on Goethe and Islamic sources - “The Genesis of Weltliteratur” (Literature and Theology, 2005) - was selected by Oxford Journals as one of the 100 seminal articles published by Oxford University Press during the past century.

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