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Michael Allan
University of Oregon
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
316 Villard Hall
Comparative Literature University of Oregon
Eugene OR 97403
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Cinema/Film
Colonialism
Comparative
Middle East/Near East Studies
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Egypt
Maghreb
Mashreq
Specialties
Middle East Film History
Modern Arabic Literature
Media Studies
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (fluent)
German (intermediate)
Kiswahili (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2008 | Comp LIt | UC Berkeley
BA | 2000 | Hist | Brown U
Abstracts
From Twitter to Tom-Toms: Fanonian Reflections on #Jan25 in Egypt Facing the Camera: The Place of Palestine in a History of Film Form