Faculty
Hajar Hussaini
Assistant Teaching Professor
Phone: 518-580-5167
Email: hhussaini@skidmore.edu
Office: Palamountain Hall 320E
Education:
- BS, Russell Sage College
- MFA, University of Iowa
Courses taught:
- EN 105 Literature of Witness
- EN 213 Poetry
- EN 282 Introduction to Poetry Writing
- EN 238 World Literature
- EN 237 Postcolonial Culture
Teaching and research interests:
- Poetry
- Creative Writing
- Translation Theory and Practice
- Global Anglophone and Postcolonial Literature
- Persian Literature and Literature of Afghanistan
Books:
- Disbound: Poems. University of Iowa Press, 2022.
- Death and His Brother: A Novel by Khosraw Mani Translated from Persian. Syracuse University Press, Forthcoming, 2025.
Selected honors and awards:
- 鈥淎sylum Seeker鈥� a Poem by Maral Taheri translated from Persian, Academy of American Poets鈥� Poem-a-Day, June 28, 2024.
- 鈥淒isbound,鈥� Daedalus: American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Spring 2023.
- 鈥淎 Poetics of Abandonment,鈥� Poetry Foundation鈥檚 Harriet Blog. May 2022.
- 鈥渕eta-variable,鈥� Poetry Magazine. April 2022.
Works in progress:
- Translations of Selected Poems by Maral Taheri from Persian, Forthcoming 2026.