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Maru Pabón
Brown University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Maru Pabón is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her current research attends to anticolonial poetics across Palestine, Cuba, and Algeria with a focus on the politics of representation that undergird attempts to reproduce the “voice of the people” during the height of the Third World project. Other interests include the history of Arabic poetry and poetics, Marxism and Marxist aesthetics, literary dialects and creoles, forms of cultural exchange between the Arab world and Latin America, Arab diasporic literature from the Americas, and translation. Along with Laure Guirguis, she is the editor of Art and Politics Between the Arab World and Latin America, forthcoming with Brill in Spring 2025.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Arabic
Colonialism
Maghreb Studies
Palestinian Studies
Theory
Translation
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Palestine
Algeria
Specialties
Latin American-Middle Eastern Connections
Global South Studies
Arab Marxism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (native)
French (fluent)
Persian (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2024 | Comparative Literature | Yale University
MPhil | 2020 | Comparative Literature | Yale University
MA | 2020 | Comparative Literature | Yale University
Abstracts
In Search of the Voice of the People: Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetic Realism and its Third-Worldist Genres “Salam Hermanos!”: The ICAP and the Poetics of Third-Worldist Solidarity