Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Primary Phone: (830) 237-2706
310 N 9th St
Apt A
Columbia
MO
65201
United States
ABOUT
Elijah Guerra (he/him) studies global and postcolonial literature with a specialization in 20th and 21st Century Arabic Literature translated to English. His dissertation “Genre and the Politics of the Built Environment in the Twenty-First Century Arabic Novel” is a study of how authors use genre to explore themes of state power, gentrification, and occupation. He has published articles in The Cormac McCarthy Journal and Humanities and is earning his PhD in English at University of Missouri, Columbia.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Foreign Relations
Globalization
History Of Architecture
Modernization
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature
Literature And Architecture
The City In Arabic Literature
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2017
| English
| Texas State University
Abstracts
The Real Estate Novel: Postcolonial Architecture in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature
Raja Alem’s The Dove’s Necklace and Mapping the Social through the Built Environment
