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EMILY DRUMSTA Department of Comparative Literature | Marston Hall, Box E Brown University | Providence, RI 02912 tel: +1-401-863-2818 | fax: +1-401-863-7337 cel: +1-914-325-9658 [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Arabic, French, English), University of California, Berkeley, 2016. Dissertation: “Chronicles of Disappearance: The Novel of Investigation in the Arab World, 1975-1985.” Director: Margaret Larkin. Certificate, Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), American University in Cairo, 2011. A.B. with Honors in Comparative Literature (French, Translation Studies), Brown University, 2006. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Brown University, Department of Comparative Literature, Assistant Professor, 2016-present. American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow, 2018-19. UC Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate Student Instructor, 2015-2016. UC Berkeley, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Graduate Student Instructor, 2012-2016. PUBLICATIONS Books in Progress Ways of Seeking: the Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation Revolt Against the Sun: Selected Poetry and Prose of Nazik al-Malaika (translation from Arabic) Refereed Journal Articles 2019: “An Epic of the Body and of Memory: Atavism and the Critique of Enlightenment in Driss Chraïbi’s Une Enquête au pays,” Research in African Literatures, volume 50, issue 2 2016: “We Deportees: Race, Religion, and War on Palestine’s No-Man’s Land,” with Keith Feldman, Social Text (2017) 34 (4 129): 87-110. 2016: “Words Against Erasure: The Persistence of the Poetic in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s In Search of Walid Masoud,” Middle Eastern Literatures 19, vol. 1: 56-76. Book Chapters 2018: “Translating Tahrir: From Praxis to Theory with Tahrir Documents,” with Levi Thompson and Elias Saba, Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation, eds. Sameh F. Hanna, Hanem El-Farahaty, and Abdel Wahab Khalifa (forthcoming) Drumsta CV 1 Book Reviews 2019: Tahia Abdel Nasser, Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles, in International Journal of Middle East Studies 51, vol. 1 (forthcoming). 2018: Martina Censi, Le Corps dans le roman des écrivaines syriennes contemporaines: Dire, écrire, inscrire la différence, in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 14, vol. 1: 89- 91. FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS External 2018-19: NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Research Center in Egypt 2018: Global Humanities Translation Prize (Honorable Mention), Global Humanities Initiative, Northwestern University, for Revolt Against the Sun: Selected Poetry and Prose of Nazik al-Malaika 2017: PEN/Heim Translation Grant for Revolt Against the Sun 2014: Europe in the Middle East/The Middle East in Europe (EUME) Summer Academy, Forum Transregionale Studien/École de Gouvernance et d’économie (EGE), Rabat 2009-2014: Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education 2008-2009: Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for Arabic language study, U.S. Department of Education 2008: Critical Language Scholarship (Arabic) in Tangiers, Morocco, U.S. Department of State Brown University 2017-18: Humanities Research Funds, Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) 2017: Salomon Curricular Mini-Grant UC Berkeley 2016-17: Townsend Center for the Humanities, Dissertation Fellowship (declined) 2014-15: Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship 2014: Comparative Literature Department Block Grant 2014: Graduate Division Summer Research Fellowship 2014: Sultan Program in Arab Studies Fellowship, Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) 2012: Andrew Mellon Foundation, Conference Travel & Research Grant, CMES 2008-09: Ancker Graduate Fellowship 2009: Comparative Literature Language Study Grant (Intensive Beginning Spanish language course, Escuela Carmen de las Cuevas (Granada, Spain) INVITED TALKS 2011: “Tahrir Documents in the Egyptian Revolution: An Introduction,” Creative Time Annual Summit: Living as Form, New York University, September 23-24 Drumsta CV 2 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Panels Organized 2019: “Investigating Middle Eastern Modernisms: Textual Transactions Across Linguistic, Disciplinary, and National Borders,” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Meeting, University of Chicago, January 3-6 2015: “The Politics of Parody: Satire, Comedy, and Contestation in Arabic Literature and Culture,” Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 21-24 2009: “This is Nowhere: Local, Regional, and Provincial Spaces in World Literature,” Annual Graduate Student Conference, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley, October 24. Papers Presented 2018: “Until the pulse of meter beats in their veins: On Translating the Poetry of Nazik al- Malaika.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), March 30-April 1. 2018: “The Egyptian Novel and the Police.” MLA Annual Meeting, New York (panel sponsored by LLC West Asian), January 4-7. 2017: “Gender, Genre, and the Politics of Meter in Modernist Women’s Poetry,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, July 6-10. 2016: “The Words Have Lost Their Features: Arabic Heteroglossia in Yusuf al-Qa‘id’s It’s Happening Now in Egypt,” ACLA Annual Meeting, Harvard University, March 17-20. 2015: “Violence, Meaning, and Specters of Kanafani in Elias Khoury’s White Masks,” MLA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, January 8-11 (panel sponsored by the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture) 2014: “Inconstant Constantine: Literary Landscapes in al-Tahir Wattar’s al-Zilzal and Ahlam Mustaghanimi’s Dhakirat al-Jasad,” EUME Summer Academy, Rabat, Morocco, August 25-September 5. 2014: “Drowning in Stories: Elias Khoury and the Cultural Capital of the Story,” ACLA Annual Meeting, New York University (NYU), March 20-23. 2013: “All the Words Have Been Pulverized: Metafiction and the Critique of Exile in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s al-Baḥth ʿan Walīd Masʿūd,” Arabic Literature: Migration, Diaspora, Exile, Estrangement, Columbia University, New York, November 7-9. 2012: “Li-l-Sabr Hudud: Reconfiguring the Rhetoric of Patience in Revolutionary Egypt,” MESA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 17-20 (panel on Tahrir Documents). 2009: “In the Twilight Derailed: Interruption, Multiplicity, and Echoes of Orality in Tahar Djaout’s Islander & Co.,” MESA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 12-15. Discussant 2018: “Fantômes de l’histoire dans le roman maghrébin,” at Sous les pavés: 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 12-14. 2017: “Schooling in Iraq: Modernity and Education in Iraqi Memory,” MESA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 18-21. Drumsta CV 3 2017: “Literature, the Body, and the Politics of Memory,” New Directions in Palestine Studies (NDPS) 4th Annual Conference: The Politics of Archives and Practices of Memory, Brown University, March 20-22. CAMPUS TALKS 2018: “Cairo Station: An Appreciation, Sixty Years On.” Confined Places, Political Choices in New Films from the Middle East, Middle East Studies, Brown University, January 30. 2017: “Between the Archive and the People: the Arabic Novel in the Age of Disillusionment,” Middle East Studies Program, Brown University, April 19. 2014: “Marj al-Zuhur and the Poetics of Displacement” with Keith Feldman, Center for Middle East Studies at UC Berkeley, April 17. 2011: “Poetry and Politics in Egypt: A Comparative Study” (in Arabic), EURECA Conference: American University in Cairo, May 15. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Brown University, Comparative Literature Department Modern Arabic Poetry, Between Tradition and Innovation (Spring 2018) The Arabic Novel, from Realism to Fantasy (Spring 2018) Women’s Writing in the Arab World (Fall 2016, Fall 2017) Graduate Proseminar in Comparative Literature (Fall 2017) Storytellers, Editors, and Archivists in Modern Arabic Narrative (Spring 2017) Anxieties of Origins in the Fictions of the Maghreb (Fall 2016) UC Berkeley, Comparative Literature Department Just Deserts, Co-Instructor (Fall 2015) UC Berkeley, Near Eastern Studies Department Survey of Arabic Literature (in Arabic), Instructor of Record (Spring 2016) Intensive Elementary Arabic, Instructor of Record (Summer 2012, Summer 2015) Elementary Arabic, Instructor of Record (Fall 2010-Spring 2011) MENTORSHIP PhD Committee Edwige Crucifix, “Disorienting Women: Transcultural Encounters in Women’s Writings in the Maghreb” Comparative Literature Honors Thesis Advising 2018: Isabel DeBre, “Beyond the Barzakh: Theorizing Trauma Within Palestinian Refugee Camps,” Director Drumsta CV 4 2018: Kelton Ellis, “Daddy’s Gotta Eat: A Translation of Marie Ndaiye’s Papa doit manger” (from French) Second Reader 2017: Laura Valle-Gutierrez, “From El Barrio to La Banlieue: Fictions of Identity in Nuyorican and Beur Literature,” Director 2017: Catherine Liu, “Tostala: A Translation of Four Short Stories by Abdul Hadi Sadoun” (from Arabic), Second Reader RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2013-14: Research Assistant, Professor Keith Feldman, Ethnic Studies Dept., UC Berkeley. Translated two collections of poetry and one book-length photo-essay from Arabic for Professor Feldman’s forthcoming project, Marj al-Zuhur and the Poetics of Displacement. 2011-13: Co-founder/Co-managing editor, Tahrir Documents Oversaw collection and translation of Arabic pamphlets, broadsides, and other papers from Tahrir Square in Cairo during 2011 uprising in Egypt. Contributed to online archive of documents from the uprising in English translation. SERVICE To the Profession
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