Position Title
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty of Middle East / South Asia Studies
Program Instructor of Arabic Language
Position Title
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Affiliated Faculty of Middle East / South Asia Studies
Program Instructor of Arabic Language
810 Sproul Hall
Bio
Education and Degree(s)
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- M.A., American University in Cairo
Selected Publications
- Egyptian Colloquial Poetry and the Modern Arabic Canon (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming - March 2012)
- "The Egyptian Revolution in Verse," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 2011
- "The Land Speaks Arabic: Egyptian shi'r al-'ammiyya and Arab Nationalism," in Poetry and History, edited by Tarif Khalidi and Ramzi Baalbaki (American University in Beirut, 2011)
- "Palestine in Arabic Colloquial Poetry," Journal of Palestine Studies, Summer 2011.
- "The Place of Fiction in the Historical Archive," Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.17, Spring 2008
- "Athar al-farasha: The Butterfly Effect: (A Diary) by Mahmoud Darwish," Journal of Palestine Studies, Autumn 2009
- "In Specters History is an Unfolding Paradigm," Journal of Palestine Studies, Summer 2011
Translations
- The House of Jasmine, a novel by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, Interlink Publishers (forthcoming - Spring 2012)