Contributors
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Roger Allen is the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also professor of Arabic and comparative literature and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In 2010-11, he is serving as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He is the author ofThe Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction and The Arabic Literary Heritage. His major interest is in Arabic narrative genres, and he is currently focusing on the arabophone literature of the Maghrib, and especially Morocco.
Amal Amireh is an associate professor of English at George Mason University. She is author of The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction and coeditor with Lisa Suhair Majaj of Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers and Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist. Her essay "Between Complicity and Subversion: Body Politics in the Palestinian National Narrative" won the 2004 Florence Howe Award (given by the Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association for best article from a feminist perspective). Her essays and reviews have appeared in many publications, and some have been translated into Arabic and Hebrew. Her current research focuses on Palestinian literature, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and Islam and Arabic literature in postcolonial contexts.
Tarek El-Ariss earned his PhD from Cornell University and is an assistant professor of Arabic studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on contemporary Arabic literature, film, popular culture, and media. He has published on new Arabic writing; the Arab Image Foundation; representations of Islam in U.S. media; and gender and sexuality in the Middle East. He is currently editing The Arab Renaissance: Anthology of Nahda Thought, Literature, and Language for the MLA series Texts and Translations and is completing a manuscript on the notion of the "modern" in contemporary Arabic literature.
Nouri Gana holds a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at [End Page 573] the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning and numerous articles on comparative Arab and modernist literatures and cultures, narrative poetics, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction in, among others, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; CR: The New Centennial Review; Journal of North African Studies; PMLA and Public Culture. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the affective politics of Arab contemporaneity tentatively titled Arab Melancholia: Toward an Affective Theory of Cultural Empowerment and finalizing a collection of critical essays on the intellectual history and contemporary significance of the Arab novel in English, The Rise of the Arab Novel in English.
Waïl S. Hassan is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab-American and Arab-British Literature (forthcoming), co-editor of Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz, a volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature, as well as the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito's Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language, a 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Martina Kolb holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University and is an Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Penn State she taught in the Humanities Core Program at Bilkent University in Ankara, and was the recipient of postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Konstanz and Bologna. Her research and teaching interests are European modernism, Mediterranean studies, theater East-West, psychoanalysis, and detective fiction. Among her publications are articles on mnemotopes in Uwe Johnson's narratives, on multilingual life writing in Ezra Pound's prison poetry, on visual-verbal encounters in Bertolt Brecht's appropriations of oriental theater, on Sigmund Freud's Italian travels, on Gottfried Benn's poetics and its relationship with Italian Futurism, and on...
