Jeffrey Einboden is a graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge where he completed a doctorate concerning Ralph Waldo Emerson’s translations of Persian poetry (2005). Currently an Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University, Einboden’s most recent publications include the 2008 ‘Composing a Persian Letter: Simin Daneshvar’s Rendition of Hawthorne’ (Nathaniel Hawthorne Review; 34:2); the 2009 ‘Washington Irving in Muslim Translation: Revising the American Mahomet’ (Translation & Literature; 18:1); and the forthcoming ‘Stoicism or Sufism?: Hammer-Purgstall’s Persian Meditations’ (Middle Eastern Literatures; vol. 13; 2010).