Simon Leese
Postdoc (2020-2022),
Personal Profile:
Simon Leese (Ph.D. SOAS, 2019) works with Arabic, Persian, and Urdu literary materials and was part of the SENSIS project as a postdoctoral researcher between 2020 and 2022. While at Utrecht University, he explored how poets drew upon the language of the senses to articulate their love for the Prophet, and also studied the role of the senses in articulations of Arabic literary taste and connoisseurship from the Mamluk period onward. He is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
