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Matthew Melvin-Koushki is an Associate Professor of Islamic History at the University of South Carolina, affiliated with the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. He holds the Peter and Bonnie McCausland Fellow of History title. His research focuses on early modern Islamicate intellectual and imperial history, particularly the occult sciences in Timurid-Safavid Iran and the Persianate world. He is the founder of the university’s Magic and Occult Science graduate focus and teaches courses on Islamic civilization, science history, and occult studies. Education: Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. (Yale University); B.A. (University of Virginia, summa cum laude). Awards include the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award and a translation prize for his work on Ibn ʿArabī’s occult philosophy. Research interests include decolonial science history, Persian Pythagoreanism, and the 'Islamic Weird.' He leads initiatives like Societas Magica and the IOSOTR working group, advancing global scholarship on Islamic occultism. Major grants include a €9M ERC Synergy Grant for the MOSAIC project, exploring occult sciences across Islamicate cultures. Notable publications include Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (2021) and edited volumes on Islamic occultism. His work critiques Eurocentric historiography, emphasizing occult science’s role in early modern Islamic empires.

• Decolonial History of Science and Empire
• Occult Sciences
• Early Modern Persianate World
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Jeff Barda serves as Senior Lecturer in French Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester, joining in 2020 after a Junior Research Fellowship at Cambridge's Murray Edwards College. Awarded the Manchester Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award in 2020 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2023, he maintains active international affiliations including visiting positions at Bordeaux-Montaigne University and London's Institute of Languages, Cultures & Societies in 2024. His research centers on contemporary French poetic practice with emphasis on digital poetics, sound arts, and avant-garde traditions. Key interests include the intersection of media and literature, lettrism, and data-driven creative processes, reflected in his extensive publications on figures like Pierre Alferi and Christophe Tarkos. His second monograph Data Poetics: Contemporary French Poetic Practice in the Age of Digital Overload is under contract with Liverpool University Press. Dr Barda's scholarly impact is evidenced by the 2021 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize for his first monograph Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry . His recent publications demonstrate evolving focus from historical avant-gardes to contemporary digital poetics, with increasing attention to OSINT methodologies and cross-disciplinary practices like sports-literature intersections. Manchester Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award (2020) Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize (2021) As an active supervisor welcoming PhD inquiries, Dr Barda contributes to multiple research networks including Marge (Lyon), the European Neo-Avant-Garde Network (Ghent), and 'After Social Networks' (Paris). His teaching excellence complements substantial grant activity supporting international collaborations, particularly in digital humanities initiatives exploring poetic practice in public spheres. His research infrastructure includes affiliations with three major transnational networks examining contemporary creation, with recent projects focusing on image manipulation in poetry and OSINT applications in literary analysis.

• Poetics
• Contemporary French Poetry
• Sound Arts
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