Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Primary Phone: 0097431646
Viva Bahriya 24
Flat 1103
The Pearl
Doha
Qatar
ABOUT
Farah Z. Aridi is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at DI. She studied Literature in Beirut (MA), focusing on Anglophone literature, diasporic narratives, and literary theory. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Goldsmiths University of London, in 2020. She lectured in literature, literatures in translation, and culture studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Lebanese American University (LAU) from 2013 to 2016, and taught Culture Studies and Creative Writing at Phoenicia University in Lebanon from 2019 to Spring of 2021. Her teaching and research interests include Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, Literatures in Translation, Postcolonial Literature, Spatial Theory, and City Literature. She is currently working on her monograph on literary spaces of transgression and the formation of the subject. She is a member of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) and the Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America (MESA).
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Arabic
Comparative
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Lebanon
Specialties
Arab/Comparative Literature, City Narratives
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Italian (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| Comparative Literature
| Goldsmiths University of London
MA
| 2011
| English
| American University of Beirut
BA
| 2008
| English
| American University of Beirut
Abstracts
Negotiating Space, Making Place in Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History
Narratives of Violence: Spatial Implications of Discursive Practices
