Assistant Professor of Arabic

• Arab-American Literature
• Arab women's literature
• Theories of space and social geography
• Post-colonial theory

• Elementary Arabic (ARAB 102)
• Writing the City: Beirut and Cairo in Contemporary Arabic Literature (COMP 353)
• Outlaws and Underworlds: Arabic Literature of the Margins (COMP 262W)

• B.A., English Literature, Wesleyan University, 1996
• M.A., Arabic Literature, Columbia University, 2001
• M.Phil., Contemporary and Classical Arabic Literature, Columbia University, 2005
• Ph.D., Columbia University, anticipated Fall 2007

• Instructor of Arabic and Arabic Literatures, Hofstra University, 2002 - 2003
• Instructor of Arabic, Columbia University, Summers 2004, 2005

• “Invisible Ethnic: The Arab American Novels of Mona Simpson,” The Arab Novel in English, ed. Nouri Ghana (forthcoming Syracuse University Press)
• “Sonallah Ibrahim’s Amrikanli: Intra-Imperial Investigations,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, Wanderlust: Travel Literature, 26 (Spring 2006)
• “The Anti-Romance Antidote: Revisiting Allegories of the Nation,” Transforming Loss: Collected Works in Memory of Magda al-Nowaihi, eds. Marle Hammond and Dana Sajdi (forthcoming from AUC Press)
• Encyclopedia Entry on Sonallah Ibrahim, Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) for a special issue on Twentieth Century Arab Writers, eds. Majd Al-Mallah and Coeli Fitzpatrick (forthcoming from Gale Group)
• Encyclopedia Entry: “Women’s Fiction in Egypt,” EWIC (Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Culture), ed. Suad Joseph (forthcoming from Brill)

• “Invisible Ethnic: The Arab American Novels of Mona Simpson,” MLA Conference, Philadelphia, PA (December 2006) and RAWI Conference, Dearborn, MI (May 2007)
• “Cairo’s Other Cultural Establishment: Artistic Underworlds in the Novels of Khayri Shalabi,” MESA Conference, Boston, MA (November 2006)
• “Helping the Data Speak: Reading the Market in Egypt across Literary and Economic Texts,” with Alexander Peterhansl, Columbia University New Comparativism Conference, New York, NY (October 2005)
• “Sonallah Ibrahim’s Amrikanli: Intra-Imperial Investigations,” ACLA (The American Comparative Literature Association), Pittsburgh, PA (March 2005)