Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Ammar Naji is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Arabic at Colorado College. He is also the advisor for the Arabic & Islamic Studies Minor. Ammar’s research and teaching interests include Anglophone-Arab and modern Arabic literature, postcolonial cultural theory, diaspora criticism and transnationalism, Middle Eastern studies, race theory, translation and political Islam. Ammar has taught Arabic language and literature at various institutions in the U.S. including Middlebury College, the University of North Dakota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2004, Ammar received a Fulbright scholarship from U.S. Department of State and was recently awarded the Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an Andrew Mellon Fellowship from the same institution. His publications have appeared in Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Ariel, Interventions and the Newsletter of Postcolonial Studies Association.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Arabic
Ethnic American Studies
Comparative
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Yemen
Islamic World
Arab States
Specialties
Arab Diaspora And Postcolonial Studies
Arab Writ
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
English (advanced)
French (advanced)
Education
DPhil
| 2015
| English and Middle East Studies
| University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA
| 2006
| English
| University of Nevada, Reno
BA
| 2002
| English
| Hodeidah University
Abstracts
Diasporic inside the Homeland: Black Yemenis and Belonging in Ali Al-Muqri’s Black Taste… Black Smell.
Rethinking Post-colonialism Through the Lenses of Modern Middle Eastern Migratory Formations
Race and the New Configurations of Extraterritorial Exile in North Africa
