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M.J. Ernst
New York University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
ABOUT
Michael received his BA from Bard College in 2014 and MA in Near Eastern Studies from NYU in 2019. Prior to pursuing his PhD in Comparative Literature at NYU, Michael worked as Political Economy Project Coordinator for the Arab Studies Institute. Michael's interests include modern Arabic literature, Third-World Marxisms, South-South solidarity, translation studies, the cultural Cold War, and Russian-Arabic literary encounters.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Middle East/Near East Studies
Political Economy
19th-21st Centuries
Cultural Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Iraq
Lebanon
Syria
Specialties
Russian-Arabic Literary Encounters
Socialist Realism In Egypt
Cultural Cold War In The Arab World
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Russian (advanced)
Education
MPhil | 2022 | Comparative Literature | New York University
MA | 2019 | Near Eastern Studies | New York University
BA | 2014 | Human Rights | Bard College
Abstracts
Film Study, Community-based Learning, and K?s?wiy?n bil? ?ud?d “Global” 1968 in Egypt: Radwa Ashour’s "Farag" and the Disarticulation of Area Studies Orphanhood and Allegoresis in Radwa Ashour's Granada Trilogy Bitter Weeping & Dreaming: Salwa Bakr’s “Thirty-One Beautiful Green Trees” as an Allegory of Neoliberal Egypt The Struggle for World Peace: Afro-Asian Solidarity and Decolonization in the Theater of 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi