Contact
Secondary Phone: (310) 206-9965
Dept of Comparative Literature
UCLA
350 Hum Bldg. Box 951536
Los Angeles
CA
90095-1536
United States
ABOUT
Nouri Gana is Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of 'Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning,' and the editor of 'The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects' and of 'The Edinburgh Companion to the Arab Novel in English'. His most recent book, 'Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique,' is published by Fordham University Press, 2023.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Europe
Tunisia
Specialties
Comparative Arab, Modernist & Postcolonial Studies
Psychoanalysis & Critical Race Theory
Politics Of Representation & Narrative Poetics
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (fluent)
English (fluent)
Italian (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2004
| English
| University of Montreal
MA
| 1999
| English
| University of Montreal
BA
| 1997
| English
| University of Manouba
Abstracts
Female Melancholia?
Rapping and Remapping the Tunisian Revolution
Collaborative Revolutionism
Defeat and Dissent in the Cinematic Discourse of Nouri Bouzid
Melancholy and Critique in Contemporary Arabic Literature and Culture
The Colonial Unconscious and Affective Critique
