This talk is part of a special lecture series: 'South Asian Women in the Public Sphere' and is sponsored by the School of Arts, Sciences and Engineering's Diversity Fund.

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Sunil Sharma is Senior Lecturer in Persian at Boston University and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with a specialization in Persian Language and Literature. Sharma is the author of two books: "Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Masud Sad Salman of Lahore" (2000), and "Amir Khusraw: The Poet of Sultans and Sufis" (2005). He has also published a number of scholarly articles on various aspects of Persian and Urdu literatures.