Occupation
Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor
Contact
University of Michigan, Dearborn
Center for Arab American Sudies, College of Arts, Sciences, & Letters
Dearborn
MI
48128
United States
ABOUT
Pauline Homsi Vinson is visiting assistant professor and interim director of the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (2022-2023). Her work includes translations from Arabic to English, Shakespeare, and Arab American literature, with attention to gender, race, and cross-cultural literary borrowings. She is co-editor of a number of special issues on Arab American literature and has taught in the US, Malaysia, and the U.A.E. Pauline has co-founded the Arab American Studies Association (AASA) and the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum at the MLA. Originally from Lebanon, she holds an honors B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a PhD from Northwestern University. Her most recent publication is a co-edited book with Louise Canikar and Amira Jarmakani Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies (Syracuse UP, 2022).
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Ethnic American Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
The Levant
Specialties
Arab Women Writers
Arab-Amer Writers
Autobiography
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (intermediate)
Italian (elementary)
Spanish (elementary)
Latin (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 1995
| English
| Northwestern U
Abstracts
Women in Syria: Negotiating Gendered Identity
A Study in Contrasts: Narrative Heritage, Cultural Mobility, and Transnational Belonging in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter
Gendered Spaces of Narration: Arab American Women’s Writing and the Figure of Scheherazade in Diaspora
Unsettling Narratives of Migration: Art, Embodied Feminism, and the Idea of the Journey in the work of Etel Adnan
