Michael Craig Hillmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetMichael Craig Hillmann
American Iranologist
Date of Birth: 05-May-1940
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Profession: poet, literary
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Michael Craig Hillmann
- Michael Craig Hillmann, Ph.D., (born May 5, 1940) is professor of Persian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and President of Persepolis Institute, Inc.
- He has published widely on Persian language and literature and specializes in lyric Persian verse, Persian prose fiction from the 1920s through the 1970s, and literary autobiography.
- Since the late 1990s, he has focused on Persian instructional materials development, resulting in, among other things, a new Persian language learning syllabus in four volumes called "Persian for America(ns)." He has published two autobiographical books titled From Durham to Tehran (1991) and From Classroom to Courtroom (2008).
- In From Classroom to Courtroom, he tells the story of how academics at the Middle Eastern Studies department became involved in cross-cultural conflicts which resulted in official complaints, allegations of abuse, discrimination, harassment, racism, and a lawsuit against the university.
- Hillmann is at work on a third and final autobiographical essay called To and From a Maine Village and a new Persian dictionary for Hippocrene Books.
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