CV
Education
McGill University
PhD, Institute of Islamic Studies, Arabic Literature, 2015
MA, English Literature/Postcolonial Studies, 2006
BA, English Literature/Philosophy/Classics, 2003
Academic Positions
Middlebury College
Associate Professor of Arabic, 2023-Present
Assistant Professor of Arabic, 2016-2023
Director of Middle East Studies, 2018-2020
Georgetown University
Visiting Assistant Professor, 2012-2016
Fields of Interest
Modern Arabic Literature Diaspora Studies
Critical Translation Studies
Empire & Postcolonial Studies
Arab Cinema & Visual Culture
Arab-Jewish Literature & Culture
Gender & Feminist Studies
Digital Humanities
Research Grants
2020 Digital Liberal Arts Fellowship, Middlebury College
2020 Ada Howe Kent Faculty Grant, Middlebury College
2019 Andrew W. Mellon Engaged Listening Faculty Grant, Middlebury College
2019 International Research & Travel Grant, Middlebury College
2019 Digital Enrichment Grant, Middlebury College
2019 Alexander von Humboldt Research Preparation Grant, Freie Universität, Berlin
2018 Digital Liberal Arts Initiative Research Grant, Middlebury College
2018 International Travel & Research Grant, Middlebury College
2017 Digital Liberal Arts Initiative Research Grant, Middlebury College
2016 Ada Howe Kent Faculty Grant, Middlebury College
2015 Global Engagement Faculty Grant, Georgetown University
2014 Doyle Faculty Fellowship on Engaging Difference & Diversity, Georgetown
2012 Faculty of Arts Award, McGill University
Publications
2021 “Multilingual Others: Transliteration as Resistant Translation.” Multilingual Literature as World Literature. Edited by Wen-Chin Ouyang and Jane Hiddleston. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
2020 “Politics of Paratextuality: The Glossary Between Translation and the Translational.” Journal of Arabic Literature. 51.1 (2020): 27-52.
2019 “Diasporic Slippages: Accent and Dialect in Translation.” Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures. 22.1 (2019): 23-35.
2019 “The (Un)Translatability of Translational Literature: Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love between English and Arabic.” Translation Studies. 12.3 (2019): 308-320.
Selected Presentations
2021
“Strangers in our Midst: The Paratextual Labor of Arabic Literature in Translation.” Keynote address, Association of Adaptation Studies Conference, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
“Translation, Bodies, and Paratexts.” Artist conversation with Lee Blalock, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
“Towards a Just Translation.” Keynote address, 11th Annual International Translation Conference, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
“What Can the Digital Humanities Learn from Arabic Literature in Translation?”
Invited talk, Middle East Studies Center, Duke University, Durham, NC.
“Exploring Gender Ambiguity and Non-Conformity in the Arabic Language.” Invited lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD.
2020
“How Do You Spell That Again?: Arabic Transliteration and its Discontents.” Zoom Talk delivered at Digital Humanities Summer Institute Online Edition. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
“On the Persistence of Othering: Paratext and Power in Translation.” Talk delivered at the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
“Transliterating Right-to-Left Languages.” Talk delivered at NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
2019
“Transliteration as Resistant Translation.” Talk delivered at Abdelkébir Khatibi: Literature & Theory conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
“Lebanon Protests.” Public conversation with Tarek El Ariss and Paul Salem. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
“Paratext and Power in Arabic Literary Translation.” Lecture delivered at Forum Transregionale Studien, Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Berlin, Germany.
“Digital Humanities and Arabic-English Translation.” Led workshop at Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.
2018
“Itinerant Paratexts in Translation.” Keynote lecture at Islamic Studies Within a Global Context Conference, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montréal.
“Paratextual Attachments: Modern Arabic Literature in English Translation.” Talk delivered at Rethinking the Margins in Arabic Literary Studies Symposium, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Chicago.
“Diasporic Translations.” Led workshop with Syrian Refugees, Zusammen Project, Baynetna, Berlin, Germany.