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Benjamin Koerber
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Cultural Studies
Pedagogy
Translation
Media
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
North America
Other
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
Syriac (elementary)
Hebrew (elementary)
English (native)
Education
PhD | 2012 | Department of Middle Eastern Studies | University of Texas
MA | 2010 | Middle Eastern Studies | University of Texas
BA | 2005 | Near Eastern Languages and Cultures | Indiana University
Abstracts
Whisperings of the Devil – Reading Rumor as the Textual Contestation of National Authority in Contemporary Egyptian Blogs and Literature Theorizing the Digital Turn: European Postmodernists in the Egyptian Blogosphere Wasla: The Ethics and Aesthetics of "Connection" Comics of Conspiracy: Documenting Secret Societies in Zorkany & Nagy's Istikhdam al-Hayat (2014) Zombie Publics and Leviathan Regimes: Literary Figuration and Political Affect in Recent Egyptian Fiction