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Emily Drumsta
University of Texas at Austin
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin 204 W 21st St, Stop F9400
Austin TX 78712
United States
ABOUT
Emily Drumsta is an Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and French and Italian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Maghreb Studies
Translation
Arabic
Modern
Middle East/Near East Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Theory
Transnationalism
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Mashreq
Egypt
Specialties
Arabic Novel
Gender And Form In Modernist Poetry
Languages
French (fluent)
Arabic (fluent)
English (native)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2016 | Comparative Literature | University of California, Berkeley
BA | 2006 | Comparative Literature | Brown University
Abstracts
Life Among the Ruins: The Role of Intertextuality in Tahar Djaout's Poetry Li-l-Sabr Hudud: Reconfiguring the Rhetoric of Patience in Revolutionary Egypt Epic Fails: Sirah, Bathth, and Other Ways of Seeking in Sonallah Ibrahim’s Zaat Against the “Straight” Path: Sonallah, Shidyaq, and other Possible Modernisms A New Register of the Arabs: Poetry as Ur-Science and Diwan in Ahmad Zaki Abushady’s al-Shafaq al-Baki (1926) Muin Bseiso's Poetics of Suspension