Armando Vargas

Assistant Professor in the Program of Comparative Literature

At Williams since 2005
Armando.Vargas@williams.edu

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

Globalization and Transnationalism
Middle Eastern and Latin American Ties
Immigrant identities

[Courses Taught]:  (ARAB/COMP)

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)

[Education]:

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

[Previous Posts]:

Instructor, Intensive Arabic Language Program, Middlebury College, Summers 2003, 2004, 2006

[Recent Research]:
"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