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Armando Vargas

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

B.S. (1992) Georgetown University
M.A. (1995) Harvard University
Ph.D. (2006) University of California, Berkeley

Email: Armando.Vargas@williams.edu
On leave 2008-2009

Program in Comparative Literature:
http://www.williams.edu/CFLang/depts/complit/top.htm/

Courses:

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

Recent Research:

"The Middle East in Brazil" Middle East Studies Assocaition (MESA), Thematic Converstaion, Boston, MA, 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

Previous Posts:

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