Professor
Research Interests
Arabic and Arab Diaspora literatures, Arabic intellectual history, comparative literature, transnational studies, postcolonial and translation theory.
Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UIUC (1998)
Awards and Honors
- University Scholar, 2016-2019
- President, American Comparative Literature Association, 2019-2020
- American Council for Learned Societies fellowship, 2017
Additional Campus Affiliations
Department of Comparative & World Literature
Department of English
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Department of Asian American Studies
Center for African Studies
European Union Center
Center for Global Studies
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Program in Translation & Interpreting Studies
Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
- Author, Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism. Oxford University Press, forthcoming March 2024.
- Co-editor (with Rogério Lima), Literatura e (i)migração no Brasil/Literature and (Im)migration in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Makunaima, 2020.
- Editor, The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Translator (Portuguese to Arabic), Lughz al-Qaf, by Alberto Mussa. Cairo: National Center for Translation, 2015.
- Co-Editor (with Susan Muaddi Darraj), Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz. MLA Publications, 2012.
- Author, Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature. Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Translator (Arabic to English), Thou Shalt Nor Speak My Language, by Abdelfattah Kilito. Syracuse University Press, 2008.
- Author, Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction. Syracuse University Press, 2003.