Nahid Norozi

Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature at the University of Bologna, directs the 'Ferdows. Collana di Studi Iranici e Islamici' (WriteUp Books) and is co-director and co-founder of the 'Quaderni di Meykhane', a e-journal of Iranian studies. Her main research interests are medieval Persian epics and verse romance and Arab-Persian mystical treatises. She has published around 50 scientific articles as well as volume translations of contemporary and medieval Persian authors such as Najm al-Din Kubrà, Sohrāb Sepehri, Khwāju Kermāni, al-Sahlajī and Gorgāni. She has also published some monographs, including Il cavallo selvaggio dell’ira. Introduzione alla poesia di Aḥmad Shāmlu, poeta ribelle del ’900 iraniano (2017); Esordi del romanzo persiano. Dal Vis e Rāmin di Gorgāni (XI sec.) al ciclo di Tristano (2022); “La mia spada è la poesia”. Versi di lotta e d’amore nella poetessa persiana Simin Behbahāni (2023); Amori e demoni nel Libro di Sām. Storia di plagi riscritture e collages in un epos persiano cripto-mazdeo, dal XI al XVII sec. (2024). She also edits the Proceedings of the Convegni Bolognesi di Iranistica (CoBIran).