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World Literature / Humanities
Simon Fraser University
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Burnaby
BC
V5A 1S6
Canada
ABOUT
Ken Seigneurie is Professor of World Literature at Simon Fraser University. Most recently, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the six-volume Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature, selected as a 2021 PROSE Finalist for “Single and Multivolume Reference, & Textbooks in the Humanities.” In 2015 his translation from Arabic of Rashid al-Daif’s ‘Awdat al-almānī ila rushdih appeared in: What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin from the University of Texas Press. In 2012 Choice magazine named his monograph, Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon from Fordham University Press, an “Outstanding Academic Title.” He has published articles in numerous journals including: Comparative Literature Studies, the Journal of Arabic Literature, Public Culture and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In 2003 he published an edited book, Crisis and Memory: The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative with Reichert Verlag. He is currently working on a book-length project in Comparative Literature on mid-twentieth-century novelistic responses to the crisis of liberal thought. Focal points for the project include Egyptian, French and Anglo-American literatures, liberal thought and religion.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Colonialism
Comparative
Modern
Pop Culture
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Egypt
Lebanon
Specialties
Levantine Lit-Novel
Narratology
Humanism In Arabic
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 1995
| Comp Lit
| U of Michigan
Abstracts
The Forms and Implications of Discursive Hybridity in the Levant Today
