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Jeffrey Einboden

Assistant Professor

19th-century American Literature, Comparative Literature

Office: RH 329
Phone: 753-6643
Email: einboden@niu.edu

Educational Background


Ph.D. University of Cambridge; 2005

M.Phil., University of Cambridge; 2001

M.A. York University, Toronto; 2000

B.A. York University, Toronto; 1999


Professional Interests


American Romanticism

Middle Eastern Translation

Transatlantic Literatures

Sufi Poetry

Scriptural Languages


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Selected Publications

  • “‘Call me Ismā‘īl’: The Arabic Moby-Dick of Ihsān ‘Abbās” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 12:1 (2010): 3-19.
  • "Stoicism or Sufism?: Hammer-Purgstall's Persian Meditations." Middle Eastern Literatures 13:1 (2010): 49-68.
  • The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz, co-authored with John Slater (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2009).
  • “A Qur’ānic Milton: From Paradise to al-Firdaws” Milton Quarterly 43:3 (2009): 183-194.
  • “The Genesis of Weltliteratur: Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan and Kerygmatic Pluralism.” Literature & Theology 19:3 (2005): 238-250. Rpt. in 100 seminal papers from Oxford Journals. 2006 .

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 331.1 (details)
MW / 2:00 - 3:15 / DU270
Fall 2013ENGL 777.P001 (details)
W / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH301
Fall 2011ENGL 607.0001 (details)
W / 6:00-8:40 / RH 201
Spring 2012ENGL 331.00H1 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH302
Spring 2012ENGL 677.1 (details)
T / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH302