Owen Cornwall

Owen Cornwall is a visiting scholar at the Center for Humanities at Tufts University, where he specializes in Persian, Arabic, and South Asian literatures. He is co-author with Frances W. Pritchett of Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters published by Columbia University Press. He is currently completing two books about the historical memory of Alexander the Great in Islam: one about his identification as a figure in the Qur’an and another about his role in Persian literature and Persianate identity.