457 Burrowes Building
Department of Comparative Literature
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park
PA
16802
United States
ABOUT
I am a scholar of Arabic literature and culture, world literature, and translation theory, as well as an active translator of Arabic texts in multiple genres. My current book project examines the ethics of literariness in English translations of Arabic literature as a matter of literary and linguistic forms, and the embodied and affective encounters that such forms invite from a translator, reader, or critic. I am also interested in the question of how 21st-century Arabic literary prizes are reshaping the ways that the modern Arabic novel circulates in today’s world literary field. My scholarship has appeared in Philological Encounters and the Journal of Arabic Literature, and my translation of Hilal Chouman’s novel Limbo Beirut was longlisted for the 2017 PEN Translation Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Arabic
Cultural Studies
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Specialties
20th/21st C. Arabic Fiction
Translation Theory
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 2016
| Middle Eastern Studies
| The University of Texas at Austin
MA
| 2013
| Middle Eastern Studies
| The University of Texas at Austin
