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Elliott Colla
Georgetown University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (202) 687-5649
Dept of Arabic & Islamic Studies
201 Poulton Hall Georgetown University
Washington DC 20057
United States
ABOUT
Pursuing interests in fiction, translation and critique.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Lebanon
Palestine
Specialties
Literary Theory
Mod Arabic Lit
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2000 | Comp Lit | UC Berkeley
Abstracts
I Used to be a Communist: Re-Reading al-Sayyab's Memoir “Movement Poetry: Activism and Poetry Repertoires in Egypt, 1968-1977”