Contributors
- Contributors
Miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at Duke University. Her early writings focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature and on Arab women writers' constructions of Islamic feminism. Cooke's more recent interests have turned to Arab cultural studies with a concentration on dissident cultural production in Syria, the networked connections among Arabs and Muslims around the world, and the emergence of tribal modernity in the Arab world. She is the author of several monographs that include War's Other Voices (1987), Women and the War Story (1997), Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature (2001), Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (2007), and Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism (2010). She has also published a novel, Hayati, My Life (2000). Several of her books have been translated into Arabic, Dutch, and German.
Christina Civantos is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, Florida. She specializes in modern Spanish American and Arabic literary and cultural studies. Civantos's main research areas are migration and diaspora, Orientalism and cross-cultural representation, and the ethno-racial and gender politics of literacy. Her current project centers on contemporary uses of Muslim Spain. Civantos has studied or conducted research in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. She is the author of Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity (SUNY Press, 2006). Civantos received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley [End Page 122] in 1999.
Shirin Edwin is Associate Professor of French at Sam Houston State University. Her research interests include African Francophone literatures and African Islam and Islamic feminism. She has published articles on these topics in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, and Gender and Education.
Erdagg Göknar is Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University and an award-winning literary translator. He holds a Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and his critical articles on Turkish literary culture have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, and the Journal of Turkish Literature. He has authored three book-length translations: Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red; Atiq Rahimi's Earth and Ashes (from Dari); and A. H. Tanpinar's novel of Turkish modernity, A Mind at Peace. Göknar is the co-editor of Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). His most recent book is a study of Turkish literature entitled Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel (Routledge, 2013).
Anne-Marie McManus is completing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University before joining the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis as an Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture. Her research focuses on post-1950 Arabic literatures in a comparative context, and over the next few years she is looking forward to pursuing projects on Syrian prison literature from 2000 to 2013 and anthropological approaches to literature. [End Page 123]
