Assistant Professor in the Program of Comparative Literature

• Globalization and Transnationalism
• Middle Eastern and Latin American Ties
  
• Immigrant identities

• Elementary Arabic (ARAB 101 - 102)
• Intermediate Arabic (ARAB 103)
• Baghdad(COMP 257)
• Migration and National Identity in Literature and Film: Europe and the Americas(COMP 402)
• Nature of Narrative (COMP 111)

• B.S., Georgetown University, 1992
• M.A., Harvard University, 1995
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006 Migration, Literature and the Nation: Mahjar Literature in Brazil

• Instructor, Intensive Arabic Language Program, Middlebury College, Summers 2003, 2004, 2006
• Conference, March 31, 2007

• "The Middle East in Brazil" Middle East Studies Assocaition (MESA), Thematic Converstaion, Boston, November 2006
• "Arabs Writing the Brazilian Nation" Braziliain Studies Association (BRASA), Nashville, TN, October 2006
• "Reading Brazil in Arabic" Latin American Studies Association conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Spring 2006
• "Multiple Homelands: Heritage and Migrancy in Brazilian Mahjari Literature" Forthcoming