Dominic Parviz Brookshaw

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is a Professor of Persian Literature and Iranian Culture at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College. He holds a DPhil from Oxford in pre-modern Persian poetry and a BA in Arabic with Persian, with prior teaching positions at the University of Manchester, McGill University, and Stanford University. His research focuses on pre-modern Persian and Arabic literature, exploring themes of performance, patronage, and desire, and he has authored and edited works such as 'Hafiz and His Contemporaries' and 'Ruse and Wit'.