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ABOUT
Tarek El-Ariss (Ph.D., Cornell 2004) is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. His research interests include Arabic and comparative literature, visual studies and cyber culture, and modernity studies and critical theory. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham, 2013) and Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton, 2019), and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA, 2018).
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Europe
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
18-19thC Arabic/Europe Intel Hist Lit Philos
Contemp Arabic Lit & Cult
Postcolonial Theory & Psychoanalysis
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (native)
Italian (elementary)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2004
| Comparative Literature
| Cornell University
Abstracts
Theorizing Queerness in Contemporary Arabic Literature
The Aesthetics of Scandal: Exhibitionism as Engagement in New Arabic Writing
Digital Activism: Arabic Literature and the New Political
Anatomy of Scandal
The Ghoul: Mythical Creature, Political Practice, Digital Condition
Pulleys, Cisterns, and Jerricans: The Story of Water from War to Pandemics
Writing War
