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Maya Aghasi
American University of Sharjah
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
American University of Sharjah
Department of English PO Box 26666
University City, Sharjah
United Arab Em
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Comparative
Environment
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Lebanon
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Marginalized Bodies (gender, Sexuality, Ableism, Ageism, Etc)
Arab Middle East
Waste Studies
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (native)
French (advanced)
Hebrew (elementary)
Education
DPhil | 2012 | Comparative Literature | University of Wisconsin- Madison
MA | 2007 | Comparative Literature | University of Wisconsin- Madison
BA | 2004 | Humanities | Lebanese American University
Abstracts
The Narrating Eye: Identity as a Structure of Vision and its Problems: Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie Rose Historical Fiction and the Postcolonial, Transnational Condition Trashscapes of the Modern Middle East: Space, Marginalization, and Disempowerment