Jahan Ramazani

Jahan Ramazani

Biography

Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His most recent books are Poetry in a Global Age (2020), The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (2017), Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2014), and A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the American Comparative Literature Association’s Harry Levin Prize. An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, he coedits The Norton Anthology of English Literature.