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Domenico Ingenito is Associate Professor of Classical Persian at UCLA's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, where he also serves as Director of the Program on Central Asia. Born in 1982 in Vico Equense, Italy, he received his PhD in Persian Language and Literature from Università di Napoli "L'Orientale" in 2012.
His research focuses on premodern Persian poetry, particularly exploring the intersections of eroticism, politics, and spirituality in classical Persian literature. He has made significant contributions to understanding Sa'di of Shiraz, rhetoric and prosody, hermeneutics, and the anthropology of ritual and symbolic representations including concepts of kingship and death elegies. His comparative literature work spans Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan traditions.
Ingenito's scholarship reveals trends connecting Islamic philosophy with mystical traditions, examining how premodern Persian poets navigated the relationship between physical beauty and spiritual transcendence. His work on obscene texts as counter-texts to mystical lyric poetry has opened new interpretive possibilities in the field.
- Bahari Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library)
- Teaching Excellence (STE): Environmental Humanities, Mellon-EPIC Fellowship (2022)
- Teaching Excellence (STE): Urban Humanities, Mellon-EPIC Fellowship (UCLA), 2019/2020
- Hellman Fellowship (UCLA), 2016-2017
- Diversity Course Development (UCLA)
- Faculty Career Development Award (UCLA), 2014-2015
His teaching encompasses undergraduate and graduate courses on Classical Persian poetry, gender studies in Iranian literature, and comparative literary analysis. His scholarly impact extends through numerous invited lectures at major institutions including Stanford, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrating the significance of his contributions to Persian literary studies.
