Ph.D.: Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998)

Current Project:

1. •Book: Anglophone Arabic Literature Between Cultural Translation and Transculturation
   

2. •Co-editing (with Susan Muaddi Darraj): Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz, for the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series.
   

3. •Translation with a critical introduction: Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language, by Abdelfattah Kilito
   

Affiliate Faculty in:

1. •Center for African Studies
   

2. •Program in South Asian and Middle Easters Studies
   

Selected Publications:

1. Books:
   

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1. 1.Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (Syracuse University Press, 2003)
   

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3. Edited Collections:
   

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1. 1.(With Rebecca Saunders), Comparative (Post)colonialisms. Special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 23: 1-2 (2003).
   

2. 2.(With Evelyne Accad), Études sur la littérature égyptienne. Special issue of Peuples méditerranéens/Mediterranean Peoples 77 October-December, 1996.
   

3. 3.(With Evelyne Accad), Nouvelles d’Égypte. Special issue of Peuples méditerranéens/Mediterranean Peoples 76 July-September, 1996.
   

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5. Articles:
   

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1. 1.“Agency and Translational Literature: Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love.” PMLA (forthcoming).
   

2. 2.“T.E. Lawrence.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Eds. David Scott Kastan et al. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
   

3. 3.“Ibn Battuta at 700: Tangier’s Witness to 14th Century Globalization.” Tingis: A Moroccan-American Magazine of Ideas and Culture. 2:2 (Spring 2005): 8-13.
   

4. 4.“Why Do They Hate Us So Much?”  English Journal 93:1 (September 2003): 97-99.
   

5. 5.“Introduction, Part I: The Project of Comparative (Post)colonialisms,” Comparative (Post)colonialisms. A special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 23: 1-2 (2003), 18-23.
   

6. 6.“Gender (and) Imperialism: Structures of Masculinity in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North.”  Men and Masculinities 5:3 (January 2003): 309-24.
   

7. 7.“Arab-American Autobiography and the Reinvention of Identity: Two Egyptian Negotiations.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 22 (2002): 7-35.
   

8. 8.“Postcolonial Theory and Modern Arabic Literature: Horizons of Application.”  Journal of Arabic Literature 33:1 (2002): 45-64.
   

9. 9.“Arabophone Literature.”  Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies.  Ed., John C. Hawley.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.  40-45.
   

10. 10.“Tayeb Salih.”  Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies.  Ed., John C. Hawley. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.  397-99.
    

11. 11.“Taha Husayn.”  Censorship: An International Encyclopedia 4 Vols., ed. Derek Jones.  London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.  Vol. II: 1129-30.
    

12. 12.“Naguib Mahfouz.” Censorship: An International Encyclopedia 4 Vols., ed. Derek Jones.  London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.  Vol. III: 1498-1500.
    

13. 13.“World Literature in the Age of Globalization: Reflections on an Anthology,” College English 63:1 (September 2000): 38-47.
    

14. 14.“‘For the Benefit of Mankind’: Voltaire’s Nationalism in Aesthetics and Historiography.”  Utah Foreign Language Review (1998): 20-37.
    

15. 15. “‘La littérature mondiale’ et l’enseignement de Naguib Mahfouz aux États Unis,” Peuples méditerranéens 77 (October-December 1996): 113-29.
    

16. 16.“Vers un existentialisme politique: Sartre sur  Baudelaire,” Romance Languages Annual 1994, vol. 6, 98-104.
    

17. 17.“This is Not a Novel: The Crying of Lot 49,” Pynchon Notes 32-33 (Spring-Fall 1993): 86-98.
    

18. 18.“Ethnocentricity and Teaching Literature to Undergraduates,” Comparative Literature in the Nineties: A Special Issue of the ACLA Bulletin, ed. Stuart McDougal and Michael Palencia-Roth, 24:2 (Spring/Summer 1993): 183-91.
    

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Reviews:

1. 1.The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qasidah, by Hussein Kadhim (Amsterdam: Brill, 2004). International Journal of Middle East Studies. (Forthcoming)
   

2. 2.The Language of Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction, by Ismail Talib (London and New York: Routledge, 2002). Comparative Literature Studies 42:2 (Spring 2005): 310-312.
   

3. 3.“Of Lions and Storytelling: A Review of Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002). Aljadid: A Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts 10:46/47 (Winter-Spring 2004): 36-37.
   

4. 4.“A Thousand and One Recipes: A Review of Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003). Aljadid A Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts 9:45 (Fall 2003):31.
   

5. 5.The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse, by Muhammad Bamyeh (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).  Interventions: An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 4:1 (2002): 148-9.
   

6. 6.Beyond Postcolonial Theory, by E. San Juan (New York: St. Martin’s P: 1998).  Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 3:1 (Fall 2001). http://www.brynmawr.edu/bmrcl/toc_issue4.html
   

7. 7.“Alternatives to Secular Modernity: Review of Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World,” by Anouar Majid (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000).  Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 6:1-2 (Fall 2001). http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v6i1-2/con61.htm.  Republished in Montreal Serai 15:2 (Spring 2002). http://www.montrealserai.com/2002_Volume_15/15_2/Article_7.htm
   

8. 8.Placing the Poet: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq by Terri DeYoung (New York: SUNY, 1998).  The Middle East Journal 53:3 (summer 1999): 492-3.
   

9. 9.The Princeton Review International Student Guide to the U.S.A., by Ian Jacobs and Ellen Shatswell.  NACADA Journal 17: 2 (Fall 1997): 63.
   

10. 10.Scratches on Kali’s Mind, novel by David Kopf. Comparative Civilizations Review 35 (Winter 1997): 117-21.
    

11. 11.In the Eye of the Sun, novel by Ahdaf Soueif.  MESA Bulletin 28: 2 (December 1994): 263-4.