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Rachel Green
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Rachel Green
Herter Hall 516 161 Presidents Drive
Amherst MA 01003
United States
ABOUT
Rachel Green is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Israel/Palestine Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her scholarly work has appeared in Dibur and is forthcoming in the Journal of Arabic Literature, and Comparative Literature.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Hebrew
Arabic
Comparative
Modern
Theory
Environment
Palestinian Studies
Gulf Studies
Israel Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
The Levant
Specialties
Arabic And Hebrew Language, Literature And Culture
Late Liberal Affects (empathy, Hope, Solastalgia)
Literary Wonder (children And Animals)
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (advanced)
Persian (elementary)
French (intermediate)
German (elementary)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2017 | Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures | University of Texas at Austin
MA | 2013 | Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures | University of Texas at Austin
BA | 2008 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago
Abstracts
Samir Naqqash, Trauma, and Arab-Jewish Cultural Memory Islamiyyat as Geographic Disruption: The Reconfiguration of Sacred Space Between Taha Husayn's 'Ala Hamish Al-Sira and Mahmud Mas'adi's Haddatha Abu Hurayra, Qal Empathy, Intersubjectivity and Violence as Theoretical Framework in Hoda Barakat and Hanan al-Shaykh Ecological Catastrophe Unfolds All Around: Kaleidoscopic Solastalgia in Israeli, Palestinian and Arab Gulf Literatures Petrohistories and Lostlands in Contemporary Kuwaiti Literature