People
Project and Journal Guest Editor: Neguin Yavari
Neguin Yavari, PhD, Columbia University, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Leipzig.
POP Guest Editor: Sassan Tabatabai
Sassan Tabatabai, PhD,
is Master Lecturer in World Languages & Literatures and the Core Curriculum, and
Coordinator of the Persian Language Program at Boston University. He is also a poet,
translator, editor, and scholar of medieval Persian literature. His work has appeared in
many publications including Essays in Criticism, The Christian Science Monitor, Literary
Imagination, The Republic of Letters, Senecca Review, Leviathan Quarterly, and Harvard
Review. He is the author of Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and his Poetry. (Leiden
University Press, 2010) and Uzunburun: Poems. (Pen and Anvil Press, 2011). Other than
his scholarly and creative pursuits, he is a former amateur boxer with over 25 years of
boxing experience. He continues his involvement with boxing as a licensed coach with the
US Amateur Boxing Federation.
