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Renee Ragin Randall
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
State Formation
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Iraq
Lebanon
Southeast Asia
Specialties
Civil War, Literature Of The Global South, Global Magical Realism, Lebanon, Sectarianism, Visual Arts, Moral Injury, Literary Form, Literary Representation Of Psychology
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2020 | Literature | Duke
BA | 2010 | History and Literature | Harvard
Abstracts
Ghada al-Samman’s Crucible: The Supernatural, The (Im)Moral and the Mad in her Lebanese Civil War Trilogy