Alireza Korangy
Alireza Korangy is an Iranian-American literary critic, philologist and linguist. He was most recently faculty at the American University of Beirut. He was previously an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. Korangy also taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Persian Literature and is known for his works on Persian poetry, Iranian and Semitic philology and linguistics, and folklore. He is editor-in-chief of the series Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics, the series Iranian and Persian Studies, Mouton Companion to Iranian Languages and Linguistics series, and the series Martyrdom and Literature.
Career
Korangy is interested in classical Persian and Arabic philology with a focus on poetics, rhetoric, and linguistics. In his 2013 book, Development of the Ghazal and Khāqānī's Contribution, Korangy provides a detailed commentary on Khāqānī and his status in Persian ghazal development. Rebecca Gould admires Korangy's genealogy of Khāqānī and believes it is the most thorough genealogy of the poet's influences in any language.Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab calls Kroangy's book on Khāqānī "a valuable monograph" in which the author provides an account of the origins, developments and characteristics of sabk-e Khorasani, an early Persian poetic style.
Korangy is also the editor of several volumes on Islamic/Iranian philosophy, literature and linguistics, among them is a festschrift of Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani titled Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy.