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CURRICULUM VITAE

I. Personal Experience

A. Personal Information

SYRINE HOUT, Ph.D. Department of English 201 Fisk Hall American University of Beirut P.O. Box 11-0236 Riad El-Solh 1107-2020, Beirut, Lebanon Tel: +961-1-374374; ext. 4118 (office) Email: [email protected] Tel: +961-1-756993 (home) +961-3-552438 (mobile)

B. Educational Background

1990–1994: Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, USA 1987–1990: M.Phil., English and Comparative Literature (with Distinction), Columbia University Major Field: English, French, and German Orientalism (1720–1850) Minor Field: 19th-Century European Bildungsroman 1986–1987: M.A., English Literature, Columbia University 1984–1986: B.A., Psychology (with High Distinction), American University of Beirut, Lebanon 1984–1986: Teaching Diploma, American University of Beirut

C. Employment History

1 Sep. 2013– : Professor of English, American University of Beirut 2003–2013: Associate Professor of English, American University of Beirut 1997–2003: Assistant Professor of English, American University of Beirut 1994–1997: Assistant Professor of English, University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMFK), Fort Kent, Maine, USA 1993–1994: Lecturer of English, Barnard College, New York Fall 1993: Instructor, Columbia University 1990–1993: Preceptor, Columbia University

D. Academic Honors and Grants

15 March 2015: Keynote Speech at Ahlia University Research Forum (15–16 March), 2

Manama, Bahrain. Title: “Fighting Two Fallacies in the Academy with One Stroke” Spring 2015, Spring 2010, and Spring 2005: Paid Research Leaves, AUB Summers 2012, 2011, and 2010: Summer Research Stipend Grants, Center for American Studies and Research, AUB Summers 2010 and 2000: Travel Assistance, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, AUB 14 Dec. 2009: Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Anglo- Arab and Muslim Writing: “Mapping Emergent Arab and Muslim Literatures in English.” University of Nizwa, Oman, 12–15 Dec. 2009. Title: “Cross-Culturality in/of Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Literature” Summer 2008: Center for American Studies and Research Conference Travel Grant, AUB Fall 1998–Spring 2017: 15 University Research Board Short-Term Faculty Development Grants, AUB Summer 1999: Mellon Foundation Grant, Center for Behavioral Research, AUB Spring 1996: Publication Stipend, Elliott V.K. Dobbie Fund, Columbia University 1994–1996: 8 Travel Grants, Faculty Development Fund, UMFK 1990–1993: President’s Fellowship, Columbia University 1986–1994: Hariri Foundation Scholarship 1986: Philip K. Hitti Prize, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, AUB

II. Research

A. Refereed Publications

1. Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, September 2012.

Reviews of my book have appeared in

International Journal of Middle East Studies (by Barbara Harlow) Postcolonial Text (by Mara Naaman) Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (by Maha El Said) Review of Middle East Studies (by Michelle Hartman) Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (by Luma Balaa) H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences (by Omar Zahzah) Al-Jadid: A Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts (by Pauline Homsi Vinson) The Daily Star (by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie) Al-Raida (by Norman Saadi Nikro)

2. Viewing Europe from the Outside: Cultural Encounters and Critiques in the 18th- 3

Century Pseudo-Oriental Travelogue and the 19th-Century ‘Voyage en Orient’. The Age of Revolution and Romanticism: Interdisciplinary Studies 18. Ed. Gita May. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Articles in Refereed International Journals

1. “Artistic Fallout from the July 2006 War: Momentum, Mediation, and Mediatization.” Arab Studies Quarterly 39.2 (Spring 2017): 793–814.

2. “What is Out There to Resist? Critical Terrains and Clashing Creeds in Under the Bombs.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 9.1 (2016): 28–48.

3. “Recounting Memories of Resistance in 33 Days.” Arab Studies Quarterly 38.2 (Spring 2016): 481–499.

4. “Sex and Love as Routes for Border Crossing and Homing Desire in Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 52.3 (2016): 345–358. Published online 16 Feb. 2016. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2016.1141310.

5. “Cultural Hybridity, Trauma, and Memory in Diasporic Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47.3 (2011): 330–42.

6. “Growing Pains: The Portrayal of Young Warriors in 21st-Century Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” Al-Abhath: Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (AUB) 57 (2009): 157–82.

7. “Revisiting Lebanon: Testimony, Trauma, and Transition in Patricia Sarrafian Ward’s The Bullet Collection.” Middle Eastern Literatures 12.3 (Dec. 2009): 271–88.

8. “The Tears of Trauma: Memories of Home, War, and Exile in Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine.” World Literature Today 82.5 (Sep.–Oct. 2008): 58–62.

9. “The Last Migration: The First Contemporary Example of Lebanese Diasporic Literature.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 43.3 (Dec. 2007): 286–96.

10. “Memory, Home, and Exile in Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46.3 (Spring 2005): 219–33.

11. “Going the Extra Mile: Redefining Identity, Home, and Family in Hanan al- Shaykh’s Only in London.” Arabesque: Arabic Literature in Translation and Arab Diasporic Writing. Ed. Maysa Abou-Youssef Hayward. Spec. issue of Studies in the Humanities 30.1–2 (June–Dec. 2003): 29–45.

12. “Critical Encounters: Feminism, Exoticism, and Orientalism in Freya Stark’s The Southern Gates of Arabia.” Studies in Travel Writing 6 (2002): 54–77. 4

13. “Reading Travel Writing in Two Theme-Based Graduate Seminars.” Teaching Travel Literature. Spec. issue of CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 64.1 (Fall 2001): 7–20.

14. “Exile, Existentialism, and Identity in Emily Nasrallah’s Flight Against Time.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 43.1 (Fall 2001): 30–48.

15. “Of Fathers and the Fatherland in the Post-1995 Lebanese Exilic Novel.” World Literature Today 75.2 (Spring 2001): 285–93.

16. “Grains of Utopia: The Desert as Literary Oasis in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky and Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands.” Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000): 112–36.

Articles in Books (University/Academic Presses)

1. “Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places: The Various Lebanons of/in De Niro’s Game.” Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage. Ed. Krzysztof Majer. Accepted for publication by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the TransCanada Series. Forthcoming in 2017.

2. “The Last Migration: The First Contemporary Example of Lebanese Diasporic Literature.” Politics, Culture and the Lebanese Diaspora. Ed. Paul Tabar and Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 362–76.

3. “The Last Migration: The First Contemporary Example of Lebanese Diasporic Literature.” Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature. Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English 115. Ed. Layla Al Maleh. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. 143–62.

4. “The Predicament of In-Betweenness in the Contemporary Lebanese Exilic Novel in English.” Literature and Nation in the Middle East. Ed. Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 190–207.

5. “Home, Politics, and Exile.” Nadia Tuéni: Lebanon: Poems of Love and War/Liban: Poèmes d’amour et de guerre. A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. Christophe Ippolito. Trans. Paul B. Kelley and Samuel Hazo. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006. (Co-published in Beirut by Editions Dar An-Nahar in cooperation with The Nadia Tuéni Foundation). 99–110.

6. “Secularism, Satire, and Scapegoatism in Chateaubriand’s Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem.” Historicizing Christian Encounters with the Other. Ed. John C. Hawley. London: Macmillan, 1998. 90–102. (Co-published in New York by New York University Press (1998) under the title Christian Encounters with the Other).

B. Non-Refereed Publications 5

Articles in Encyclopedias

1. “Anglophone Lebanese Diasporic Literature”. The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Rita Sakr. 2017.

2. “Hajj.” The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Jennifer Speake. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 533–35.

3. “Christina Dodwell (1951– ).” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 204, British Travel Writers, 1940–1997. Ed. Barbara Brothers and Julia Gergits. Bruccoli Clark Layman Group. Farmington Hill, MI: Gale Research, 1999: 39–49.

4. “Wilfrid (1840–1922) and Anne Blunt (1837–1917).” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 174, British Travel Writers, 1876–1909. Ed. Barbara Brothers and Julia Gergits. Bruccoli Clark Layman Group. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1997: 41–53.

Abstracts and Translations

1. Abstract: “Whose War is it Anyway? Linguistic Games as Political Encoding in De Niro’s Game” (C: 1). Presumed Autonomy, May 10–13, 2016, Stockholm University, All Abstracts: p. 29.

2. Abstract: “Floating or Sinking in Foreign Cities? A Contrastive Study of Alternative Post-War Lives in Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” European Science Foundation-Linköping University Conference: “Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies.” Linköping, Sweden, 6–10 Aug. 2010: 26–27.

3. Abstract: “The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Literature.” 2010. http://wocmes.iemed.org/en/new-panel-9071-lebanese-literature-i.

4. Abstract: “Blood-Stained: Crossing the Frontiers of Adolescence and Exile for Young Militants in 21st-Century Anglophone Lebanese Fiction” (Panel 7E on p. 33 of Annual Conference Program (2009) of BRISMES: “Frontiers: Space, Separation and Contact in the Middle East” at Univ. of Manchester).

5. Abstract: “How Does One Truly Revisit Lebanon? The Agony of Staying in Lebanon Versus Staying in the US in Patricia Sarrafian Ward’s The Bullet Collection (Panel 7B on p. 33 of Annual Conference Program (2008) of BRISMES: “Mapping Middle Eastern and North African Diasporas” at Univ. of Leeds).

6. Abstract: “The Last Migration: The First Contemporary Example of Lebanese Diasporic Literature.” First Day (Friday, 25 May 2007), Second Parallel Session, at the Conference “Politics, Culture and Lebanese Diaspora” at Lebanese American University: http://www.lau.edu.lb/news-events/conferences/politics_lebanese_abroad/abstracts. php. 6

7. Abstract: “Not Where But ‘How Far’ One Goes: Negotiating Liberty, Sexuality, and Identity in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s Only in London” (Session 4, Chair: Kamal Salhi, 2 July 2002, 12:20, Room 108, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds) in “Arab Voices in the Diaspora: An Interdisciplinary Research Forum,” University of Leeds, Centre for Mediterranean Studies and Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, 1–2 July 2002: 8.

8. Contributing translator of Abu Jmeel’s Daughter And Other Stories: Arab Folk Tales From Palestine and Lebanon. Collected and retold by Jamal Sleem Nuweihed. Ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi. Copy Trans. Christopher Tingley. Introd. Remke Kruk. Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2002, repr. 2007.

9. Abstract: “The Predicament of In-Betweenness in the Contemporary Lebanese Exilic Novel: The Example of Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids” in First Conference on Literature and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa: Conference Abstracts, Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of Islam and the Middle East, University of Edinburgh, 10–13 July 2000: 18.

C. Book Reviews

1. New Voices in Arab Cinema by Roy Armes. Journal of Contemporary History 52.2 (2017): 476–478.

2. Native Tongue, Stranger Talk: The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon by Michelle Hartman. Comparative Literature Studies 54.1 (2017): 270–274.

3. The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel: Memory, Trauma, and Capital by Felix Lang. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 9.3 (2016): 375–378.

4. The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora: Representations of Place and National Identity by Jumana Bayeh. International Journal of Middle East Studies 47.4 (November 2015): 861–63.

5. Syria: Through Writers’ Eyes. Ed. Marius Kociejowski. Studies in Travel Writing 11.2 (Sep. 2007): 199–201.

6. A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation by Eric D. Weitz. Utopian Studies 15.2 (2004): 299–302.

7. The Life of High Countess Gritta Von Ratsinourhouse by Bettine Von Arnim and Gisela Von Arnim Grimm. Utopian Studies 13.1 (2002): 252–53.

8. Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture by Ami Elad-Bouskila. Journal of Islamic Studies 13.1 (Jan. 2002): 98–100.

9. Innenansichten Utopias: Wirkungen, Entwürfe und Chancen des utopischen 7

Denkens by Richard Saage. Utopian Studies 12.1 (2001): 243–46.

10. Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order by David Punter. Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 365–66.

11. Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th-Century Turkey by Reinhold Schiffer. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 28.2 (2001): 238–40.

D. Submissions

1. “Whose War is it Anyway? Multilingual Games as Political Encoding in De Niro’s Game”. Under peer review for Middle Eastern Literatures.

2. “Novel(istic) Realities in/of An Unsafe Haven: Crossroads for Refugees and Scholars” (submitted to College Literature)

E. Work in Progress

1. “Comparing Novel(istic) Movements of Arab Migrants in the Twenty-First Century” (research stage and preliminary writing)

2. “Anglophone Lebanese Diasporic Literature” (basic research)

F. Conference Presentations

1. “Comparing Novel(istic) Movements of Arab Migrants in the Twenty-First Century.” BRISMES Annual Conference 2017: “Movement and Migration in the Middle East: People and Ideas in Flux.” Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, 5–7 July 2017.

2. “Novel(istic) Realities in/of An Unsafe Haven: Crossroads for Refugees and Scholars.” “Mobilities, Literature and Culture Conference.” Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, 21–22 April 2017.

3. “Whose War is it Anyway? Linguistic Games as Political Encoding in De Niro’s Game.” “Presumed Autonomy: Literature and Art in Theory and Practice.” University of Stockholm, Sweden, 10–13 May 2016.

4. “Visualizing the 2006 War on Lebanon: Limits and Possibilities.” BRISMES/EURAMES Joint Annual Conference 2015: “Liberation?” The Middle East Centre at London School of Economics, London, UK, 24–26 June 2015.

5. Keynote Speech at Ahlia University Research Forum (15–16 March), Manama, 8

Bahrain. 15 March 2015. “Fighting Two Fallacies in the Academy with One Stroke.”

6. “Sex as Border Crossing in Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” “The 43rd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.” University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 26–28 Feb. 2015.

7. “The Artistic Fallout of the July 2006 War in/for Lebanon”. “The 42nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.” University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 20–22 Feb. 2014.

8. “Sex Matters in Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” “The 41st Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.” University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 21–23 Feb. 2013.

9. “Floating or Sinking in Foreign Cities? A Contrastive Study of Alternative Post-War Lives in Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” European Science Foundation Research Conference: “Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies.” Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 6–10 August 2010.

10. “The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Literature.” World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 19–24 July 2010.

11. Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Conference of the Centre for Anglo-Arab and Muslim Writing: “Mapping Emergent Arab and Muslim Literatures in English.” University of Nizwa, Oman, 12–15 December 2009. Title: “Cross-Culturality in/of Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Literature.”

12. “Blood-Stained: Crossing the Frontiers of Adolescence and Exile for Young Militants in 21st-Century Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” BRISMES Annual Conference: “Frontiers: Space, Separation and Contact in the Middle East.” University of Manchester, UK, 4–6 July 2009.

13. “How Does One Truly Revisit Lebanon? The Agony of Staying in Lebanon Versus Staying in the US in Patricia Sarrafian Ward’s The Bullet Collection.” BRISMES Annual Conference: “Mapping Middle Eastern and North African Diasporas.” University of Leeds, UK, 4–6 July 2008.

14. “Rising to the Bottom: Writing Wars and Wounds in Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine.” “The 36th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.” University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 21–23 Feb. 2008.

15. “The Last Migration: The First Contemporary Example of Lebanese Diasporic Literature.” “Politics, Culture and Lebanese Diaspora.” Lebanese American University, Beirut Campus. 24–27 May 2007. 9

16. “Memory, Home, and Exile in Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” “Sociology of the Lebanese Civil War Novel.” The Anis Khoury Makdisi Program in Literature. American University of Beirut. May 2004.

17. “Lebanon ‘Revisited’: Memory, Self, and Other in Rabih Alameddine’s The Perv.” “The 32nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.” University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, Feb. 2004.

18. “Laughing and Crying Out Loud: Redefining Identity, Home, and Family in Two Contemporary Lebanese Diasporic Novels.” Annual Convention of The Modern Language Association of America, New York, New York, Dec. 2002.

19. “Not Where But ‘How Far’ One Goes: Negotiating Liberty, Sexuality, and Identity in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s Only in London.” “Arab Voices in the Diaspora: An Interdisciplinary Research Forum.” University of Leeds, Centre for Mediterranean Studies and Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, July 2002.

20. “The State of the Nation in the Contemporary Exilic Lebanese Novel.” “Imagine All The People: (De-)Constructing National Identities.” Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, April 2001.

21. “The Predicament of In-Betweenness in the Contemporary Lebanese Exilic Novel: The Example of Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids.” “First Conference on Literature and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa.” Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of Islam and the Middle East, University of Edinburgh, July 2000.

22. “Grains of Utopia: The Desert as Literary Oasis in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky and Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands.” 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 1999.

23. “O(h) Canada: (De)Constructing Exile as Utopia in Emily Nasrallah’s Flight Against Time.” 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Utopian Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Oct. 1998.

24. “From Dissertation to Publication: Seeking a True Lingua Franca.” “The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies” on “Early Modern Culture, 1450–1850,” West Virginia University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1996.

25. “Going the Extra Mile: Alexander Kinglake’s Eothen as a Parodic Satire of 19th- Century Travel Discourse.” “The Third Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies” on “Early Modern Culture, 1450–1850,” University of Texas at Arlington, Dallas, Texas, Oct. 1995.

26. “Secularism, Satire, and Scapegoatism in Chateaubriand’s Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem.” “Christianity’s Encounters with ‘The Other’,” Santa Clara University, 10

Santa Clara, California, May 1995.

27. “Anywhere But Home: The Role of Exile in 18th-Century European Socio- Political Fiction.” “Strangers in Paradise: Voices in Exile: A Conference on Literature and Linguistics,” California State University at San Bernardino, Palm Springs, California, April 1995.

28. “East Meets West and Vice Versa: Critical Travel and Intellectual Hybridity in 18th- and 19th-Century European Literature.” “The Second Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies” on “Early Modern Culture, 1450–1850,” University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, Nov. 1994.

III. Teaching

A. Courses Taught

At AUB: Fall 1997–Spring 2016–17

Spring 2017:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II (2 sections) CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Fall 2016:

ENGL 325A: “Anglophone Lebanese Post-War Narrative” (cross-listed as MEST 316J) ENGL 220B: Contemporary Anglophone Literature: “Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Fiction”

Summer 2016:

CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies (2 sections)

Spring 2016:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II (2 sections) CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Fall 2015:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Summer 2015:

CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies (2 sections) 11

Spring 2015:

Paid Research Leave

Fall 2014:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II ENGL 325A: “Anglophone Lebanese Post-War Narrative” CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Summer 2014:

Spring 2014:

Fall 2013:

Summer 2013:

Spring 2013:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies (2 sections)

Fall 2012:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II ENGL 325C: World Literature: “Sexuality and Diaspora in Anglophone Lebanese Fiction” CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Spring 2012:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies (2 sections) 12

Fall 2011:

ENGL 106: Introduction to World Literature CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Spring 2011:

Fall 2010:

ENGL 106: Introduction to World Literature ENGL 325A: World Literature: “The Anglophone Lebanese Post-War Narrative” CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Spring 2010:

Paid Research Leave

Fall 2009:

ENGL 106: Introduction to World Literature ENGL 301A: Introduction to Bibliography and Research Methods CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Summer 2009:

Spring 2009:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II ENGL 213: Neoclassical and Romantic Age CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies (2 sections)

Fall 2008:

ENGL 106: Introduction to World Literature ENGL 301A: Introduction to Bibliography and Research Methods CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Summer 2008:

CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies (2 sections) 13

Spring 2008:

ENGL 104: Introduction to Poetry CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Fall 2007:

ENGL 216: Drama ENGL 301A: Introduction to Bibliography and Research Methods CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Summer 2007:

CVSP 201: Ancient, Near East, and Classical Civilizations CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Spring 2007:

ENGL 104: Introduction to Poetry ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II ENGL 305E: Tutorial: Research Methods in Literary Studies CVSP 204: Contemporary Studies

Fall 2006:

ENGL 213: Neoclassical and Romantic Age ENGL 325: World Literature: “The Middle Eastern Novel in English” CVSP 201: Ancient, Near East, and Classical Civilizations

Summer 2006:

ENGL 203: Academic English CVSP 201: Ancient, Near East, and Classical Civilizations

Spring 2006:

ENGL 104: Introduction to Poetry ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II (2 sections) CVSP 201: Ancient, Near East, and Classical Civilizations

Fall 2005:

ENGL 213: Neoclassical and Romantic Age ENGL 301A: Introduction to Bibliography and Research Methods

Summer 2005: 14

Spring 2005:

Paid Research Leave

Fall 2004:

ENGL 213: Neoclassical and Romantic Age ENGL 302D: English Literature before 1800: “Satire in the Eighteenth Century” CVSP 201: Ancient, Near East, and Classical Civilizations

Summer 2004:

Spring 2004:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II ENGL 301A: Introduction to Bibliography and Research Methods CVSP 201: Ancient, Near East, and Classical Civilizations

Fall 2003:

ENGL 213: Neoclassical and Romantic Age ENGL 216: Drama CVSP 201: Ancient, Near East, and Classical Civilizations

Summer 2003:

ENGL 204: Advanced Academic English (2 sections)

Spring 2003:

ENGL 204: Advanced Academic English ENGL 240: Literature and Empire ENGL 325: World Literature: “The Arabic Novel in/of Exile”

Fall 2002:

ENGL 216: Drama ENGL 220: Travel Writing ENGL 301A: Introduction to Bibliography and Research Methods 15

Spring 2002:

ENGL 203: Academic English (2 sections) ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II

Fall 2001:

ENGL 203: Academic English ENGL 301: Introduction to Bibliography and Research Methods

Spring 2001:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II ENGL 223: Contemporary Literature in English: “Narrative Identity in Postwar World Literature” ENGL 301: Introduction to Bibliography and Research Methods

Fall 2000:

ENGL 213: World Drama in English ENGL 221: The 19th-Century English Novel ENGL 303B: Selected Topics in English Literature after 1800: “Orientalism”

Spring 2000:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II ENGL 222: English Literature from 1900: Modernism ENGL 303A: Selected Topics in English Literature after 1800: “Exile in Twentieth-Century Literature”

Fall 1999:

ENGL 213: World Drama in English ENGL 221: The 19th-Century English Novel ENGL 303B: Selected Topics in English Literature after 1800: “Cross-Cultural Encounters”

Spring 1999:

ENGL 207: Introduction to English Literature II ENGL 216: Restoration and 18th-Century Literature ENGL 303: Selected Topics in English Literature after 1800: “Exile and Utopia”

Fall 1998: 16

ENGL 213: World Drama in English ENGL 221: The 19th-Century English Novel ENGL 303B: Selected Topics in English Literature after 1800: “Orientalism”

Spring 1998:

ENGL 216: Restoration and 18th-Century Literature ENGL 303: Selected Topics in English Literature after 1800: “Exoticism” CS 202: Civilization Sequence II: Medieval and Renaissance Culture

Fall 1997:

ENGL 204: English Communication Skills IV ENGL 223: Contemporary Literature in English: “Narrative Identity in Postwar World Literature” CS 201: Civilization Sequence I: Ancient Culture

Guest-Teaching and Teaching-Related Student-Oriented Lectures at AUB

1. “Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Writing: State of the Field”. Guest Lecture on 27 April 2017 in “MEST 301: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies”, offered by the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB.

2. Moderator of Department of English Colloquium’s Meeting with Nada Awar Jarrar (24 October 2016).

3. Participant in the Lebanon Dissertation Summer Institute’s “Researching Lebanon: Doctoral Dissertation Summer Institute” (organized by Drs. Nadya Sbaiti and Ziad Abu- Rish under the auspices of the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and CAMES at AUB): 13–24 June 2016. Seminar offered on 22 June 2016.

4. “The Use of English in Post-War Lebanese Fiction,” 30 April 2014, Guest Speaker in ENGL 229 (History of the English Language).

5. “Edward Said’s Orientalism.” Civilization Sequence Lecture Series, April 2017, Nov. 2016, April 2016, Nov. 2015, Nov. 2014, April 2014, Nov. 2013, and April 2013.

6. “Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction in the Diaspora: Roots and Routes.” Guest Lecture on 28 April 2016, 14 Dec. 2012 and 16 Dec. 2011 in “MEST 301: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies”, offered by the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB.

7. “Cross-Culturality in/of Contemporary Anglophone Lebanese Literature.” Guest Lecture on 17 Dec. 2010 and 8 Jan. 2010 in “MEST 301: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies”, offered by the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB. 17

8. “Themes and Strategies in the Anglophone Lebanese Post-War Novel with Emphasis on Patricia Sarrafian Ward’s The Bullet Collection.” Guest Lecture on 12 Dec. 2008 in “MEST 301: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies”, offered by the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB.

9. “Machiavelli: The Prince of Practical Politics.” Civilization Sequence Lecture Series, May 2012, Jan. 2012, May 2006, Dec. 2005, Dec. 2004, May 2004, May 2002, and June 1998.

10. “Faust: The Ethics of Striving.” Civilization Sequence Lecture Series, Nov. 1998.

At UMFK: 1994–l997

ENG. 100: English Composition I ENG. 101: English Composition II ENG. 255: World Literature I ENG. 256: World Literature II ENG. 362: Greek and Roman Literature ENG. 376: The Enlightenment in Europe ENG. 455: The Contemporary Novel ENG. 448: Literature & Culture: The 19th-Century Bildungsroman ENG. 450: Poetry (English & American) ENG. 469: Twentieth-Century International Narrative HON. 400: Honors Seminar: “Exoticism: An Interdisciplinary Approach”

At Barnard College: 1993–l994

ENG. BC 1201: First-Year English: “Travel & Discovery” ENG. BC 3160: The English Colloquium: “Imitation and Creation: The Enlightenment”

At Columbia University: 1990–1993

HUM C1003: Methods of Critical Analysis HUM C1001: Literature-Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy I HUM C1002: Literature-Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy II (3 semesters)

B. Master’s Theses at AUB

1. Supervisor for 14 Master’s Theses

Seven Theses Completed in my Current Area of Research: 18

1. Zantout, Lana. “Writing (Letters), Liquids, and Lives Reborn in Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Women's Fiction” (April 2016).

2. Kalayjian, Nayiri Haroution. “The Writing of Trauma: Catharsis and Women’s Subversion of Patriarchy in Rabih Alameddine’s I, the Divine and Zena el Khalil’s Beirut, I Love You” (January 2013).

3. Sfeir, Maya Michel. “Trauma and Space in Patricia Sarrafian Ward’s The Bullet Collection” (January 2013).

Recipient of Jinane Majzoub Excellence Award (11 June 2013).

(This prize is awarded to a graduating student with the highest average in the graduate program in English Literature)

4. Aridi, Farah. “Contesting Space: Fragmentation, Generic Multiplicity, and Polyvocality in Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids: The Art of War” (Fall 2010).

5. Turk, Rania Ghassan. “Loss and Regenerative Myth in Tony Hanania’s Unreal City” (Fall 2004).

6. Salam, Rula Kamal. “Internal and External Wars: Mutilation as a Substitute for Expression in the Time of War as Studied in The Story of Zahra and The Bullet Collection” (Spring 2004).

7. McCaw, Heather Leigh. “Negotiating the Distance: Exile, Homosexuality, and Identity in the Writings of Rabih Alameddine” (Fall 2003). (Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies).

Six Theses Completed in Adjacent Areas of Research:

8. Serio, Anna Isabella. “Reporting Conspiracy (Theory): Sonallah Ibrahim’s Al-Lajna and Paul Auster’s City of Glass” (April 2015).

9. Dakwar, Hana. “A Study of Female Solidarity in the Postcolonial and Contemporary Novels of Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, Faqir’s Pillars of Salt, and Saadawi’s Zeina” (Spring 2014).

10. Shaaban, Dana Kassim. “Broken Homes: The Impact of Evil on Family in Oscar Wilde’s Works” (Spring 2006).

11. Sadaka, George Faris. “The Colonial Store in Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson and Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing” (Fall 2001).

12. Boniakrian, Arda Hagop. “Exile, Metamorphosis, and Identity in Bharati Mukerjee’s 19

Jasmine” (Fall 1998).

13. Shidrawi, Shadi Yacoub. “George Eliot and the Bildungsroman: Middlemarch as a Novel of Female Development” (Fall 1997).

One Thesis in Progress in my Current Area of Research:

14. Nibal Abou Mrad. “Once Children of/in the Lebanese Civil War: Women Writers’ Textual Remedies”.

2. Reader for 33 Other Master’s Theses

1. El Mekkawi, Lara Samir. “One Foot Out the Door: Indecisive Cosmopolitanism and Rabih Alameddine” (Dec. 2016).

2. Farhat, Razan. “Dimensions of Exile: A Foreigner, a Ghost, and a Stranger Out of Place” (June 2016).

3. Simitian, Salpi Boulghourjian. “Finding Homeland: Lebanese National Identity as Reflected in Children’s Literature” (April 2016).

4. Chkair, Racha Mahmoud. “More than a Literary Device: Language as a Tool of Resistance in Minority Literature” (April 2016).

5. Harb, Amina Mahmoud Jaafar. “Postmodernist Consumption in Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Material Culture Study” (April 2015).

6. El Hajj, Tracey Maroun. “Social Network Analysis of Lebanese Post-War Novels: Critical Coding and Networks” (April 2015).

7. Darwich, Lynn Fady. “Rereading Value and Normativity in Contemporary Arab American Literature: Diana Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz and Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home” (Fall 2014).

8. El Rishmani, Luna Samir. “Queering the Postcolonial: Gender and Masculinity in Chris Abani’s Graceland and Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Leaving Tangier” (July 2014).

9. Van der Hoek, Johanna. “Displacement, Belonging, Negotiation and Third Space in Mai Ghoussoub’s Selected Writings, Zena El Khalil’s Beirut, I Love You, and Naima El Bezaz’s Vinexvrouwen” (Spring 2014).

10. Al Shammari, Esraa. “ ‘Strange(r)ness’ in Modern Arabic Poetry” .الذات الغريبة" في الشعر العربي الحديث / اعداد إسراء عبد ا رالشمري (Spring 2012). (Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages). 20

Recipient of the Abdul Hadi Debs Endowment Award for Academic Excellence in the FAS (20 June 2012).

11. Hazimah, Rim. “Elizabeth Bishop and the Aesthetic Eye/I: Her Published and Unpublished Poetry” (Fall 2011).

12. Choubassi, Baraa. “Violence, Marginalization and Misrepresentation of the Other in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Voyage-Out’ and Tayeb Salih's ‘Voyage-In’ ” (Summer 2011).

13. El-Hajj, Hind. “Community, Struggle, and Racial Hierarchies in Contemporary Palestinian American Poetry” (Spring 2011).

14. Kawtharani, Hala. “Autobiography and Resistance : Edward Said’s Out of Place and Mahmoud Darwish’s Limadha tarakta 'l-hisana wahidan?” السيرة الذاتية و المقاومة خارج المكان لدوارد سعيد و لماذا تركت الحصان وحيدا؟ لمحمود درويش (Fall 2010). (Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages).

15. Mounzer, Mia. “Authorial Deliberation and Transcendental Signification in Rabih Alameddine’s The Hakawati” (Fall 2009).

16. Shehab, Hayat. “Disturbing Structures and Ghostly Spaces: An Intrepid Application of Feminist Narratology” (Spring 2009).

17. Jaber, Nagham. “Play’s the Thing: Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildernstern are Dead and Rewriting Hamlet in the Twentieth Century” (Spring 2009).

18. Dbouk, Youmna. “Emerson, Carlyle, and International Copyright” (Fall 2008).

19. El-Hajj, Sleiman Youssef. “Of Victims and Victimizers in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood: The Narrative and Counter-Narrative” (Fall 2007).

20. Feghali, Zalfa Nazih. “The Configuration of Identity in Rebecca Walker’s Black White and Jewish” (Fall 2007).

21. Shweiry, Zein Salam. “The Poetry of Frank O’Hara: Abstract Expressionism and the Problematics of Literary Art” (Spring 2007).

22. Zaweel, Yara Yehia. “The Myth of the Good War: Un-regenerative Violence in Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead, Heller’s Catch-22 and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse- Five” (Fall 2006).

23. Assaf, Mira Charbel. “ ‘The most “Fantasticallest girl[s]’: Representations of Vagrancy in the Antics of Mary Frith and her Dramatic Surrogate Moll Cutpurse” (Fall 2006).

24. Atme, Reine Hanna. “Storytelling, Trickstery and Ethnic Identity in Bless Me, 21

Ultima, Song of Solomon, and The Woman Warrior” (Spring 2006).

25. Issa, Rana Hisham. “This Boy Does Cry: Effeminate Masculinity in Edward Said’s Out of Place” (Spring 2006).

26. Barakat, Samar Fayez. “Morality, Community, and Resignation in George Eliot’s Silas Marner, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Middlemarch” (Spring 2004).

27. Hamdar, Abir Hussein. “Split Selves, Multiple Personalities: The Birth, Development and Metamorphosis of the Figure of the Decadent Artist in Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, and Josephine Hart’s The Stillest Day” (Fall 2001).

28. Masri, Jasmin Mohammed. “The New Face of Eve: The Human Condition in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine, Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things” (Spring 2000).

29. Osseiran, Mira Ali. “Decolonization in Theory and Practice: The Case of Ngugi wa Thiong’o” (Fall 1999).

30. Shaheen, Nataly Emile. “Exoticism in Oscar Wilde’s Salome: Decadence, Christianity and the Victorian Age” (Summer 1999).

31. Azar, Suha Wasef. “Androgyny in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Mrs. Dalloway” (Spring 1999).

32. Farran, Jean-Pierre Remy. “Love in the Female Consciousness in Thomas Hardy’s Early Novels” (Spring 1998).

33. Shibel, Reem Saleh. “The Image of the Female Body in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy” (Spring 1998).

3. Reader for 1 Master’s Thesis in Progress

Rizkallah, Myrna. “Coalition Building at Home(s) and Outside in Arab American Writings”.

C. Academic Advising

At AUB: Number of Advisees Per Semester (Fall 2002–Spring 2015):

Fall 2015–16: 0 Spring 2014–15: 0 (paid research leave) Fall 2014–15: 5 22

Spring 2013–14: 6 Fall 2013–14: 6 Summer 2012–13: 3 Spring 2012–13: 3 Fall 2012–13: 4 Summer 2011–12: 1 (CASAR summer research stipend grant) Spring 2011–12: 1 Fall 2011–12: 1 Summer 2010–2011: 0 (CASAR summer research stipend grant) Spring 2010–2011: 0 Fall 2010–2011: 0 Summer 2009–2010: 0 (CASAR summer research stipend grant) Spring 2009–2010: 0 (paid research leave) Fall 2009–2010: 16 Summer 2008–09: 5 Spring 2008–09: 25 Fall 2008–09: 7 Summer 2007–08: 1 Spring 2007–08: 10 Fall 2007–08: 12 Summer 2006–07: 2 Spring 2006–07: 17 Fall 2006–07: 20 Summer 2005–06: 0 Spring 2005–06: 18 Fall 2005–06: 9 Summer 2004–05: 7 Spring 2004–05: 19 (paid research leave) Fall 2004–05: 19 Summer 2003–04: 7 Spring 2003–04: 24 Fall 2003–04: 17 Summer 2002–03: 2 Spring 2002–03: 21 Fall 2002–03: 13

At UMFK:

Spring 1995–Spring 1997: about 7 undergraduate students per semester

III. Service

A. Service to the University

1. AUB 23 a. In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University-wide, and at Large

Spring 2017: Expanded departmental voting member for the Philippe Jabre Visiting Professorship in Art History and Curating for 2017–18 in FAAH Spring 2017–: Co-chair of the Standing Grievance Committee for AUB Fall 2016–Spring 2018: Member of the Steering Committee for AUB’s Self-Study for Reaccreditation by Middle States Commission on Higher Education; Member of the Editing Subcommittee Fall 2016–Feb. 2017: FAS Representative of the Humanities on the Graduate Open House Organizing Committee Spring 2015–2016: External member of Search Committee for Director of CASAR Spring 2015–2016: Member of Search Committee for the Edward Said Chair Fall-Spring 2015–2016: Acting Departmental Chair of Promotion Committee of Henri Franses Summer 2015–Summer 2016: Member of the Steering Committee of the Center for the Arts and Humanities 2015–16: Coordinator of CVSP 204 in the CVSP program April 2014: Member of Committee for selecting student speakers for the 2014 Commencement Spring 2013–14: Member of the Senate and the Senate Steering Committee (replacing Dr. Arne Dietrich) Presenter at the FAS Academic Advising Workshop (11 Dec. 2013) Fall 2014–15 and 2013–2014: Chair of FAS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Spring 2013–2014, Fall 2012–13 and Fall 2011–12: External Member of Arabic Search Committee (position in modern Arabic literature) Spring 2012–13: External Member of CVSP Search Committee (2 visiting positions) 13–17 Dec. 2008 & 7–11 June 2008: External Examiner of Department of Foreign Languages at Qatar University (REP) Spring 2008: Member of the Research Committee Spring 2006: Member of Search Committee for Directorship of CASAR Spring 2006: Member of Search Committee for the Whittlesey Visiting Professorship 2003–2005: Member of the Graduate Committee 2002–2003 and 1998–2000: Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1999–2001: Member of the Administrative Committee 1998–2000: Member of the Curriculum Committee b. In the Department of English

Spring 2017: Academic Mentor of Rana Issa 7 Dec. 2016: Organizer/Moderator of Student Mini-Conference on “Postwar Anglophone Lebanese Fiction” Fall 2016–2017: Member of Search Committee (position in postcolonial/world literature; film and visual/digital cultures) 2016–2017: Member of Graduate Committee Fall 2016: Member of Reappointment Committee of Kassim Shaaban Fall-Spring 2015–2016: Chair of Reappointment Committee of Robert Myers 24

Fall-Spring 2015–2016: Chair of Promotion Committee of Sirène Harb Fall-Spring 2015–2016: Member of Promotion Committee of David Wrisley July 2016 and July 2015: Acting Chair 2014–2015: Member of Graduate Committee Fall 2014-Spring 2015: Member of Promotion Committee of Chris Nassar 2013–2014: Member of Search Committee (position in World Literature) Fall 2013, Spring 2013, and Spring 2012: Member of Curriculum Committee July 2013 and 2–12 Jan. 2013: Acting Chair Spring 2013 and Fall 2012: Coordinator of the MA Qualifying Exam in English Literature Fall 2010: Member of Promotion Committee of Roseanne Khalaf Spring 2008: Member of Subcommittee of Mission and Program Learning Outcomes Fall 2007: Member of English Literature Program Subcommittee (Re-accreditation) Fall 2007: Member of Promotion Committee of Rula Diab Fall 2007: Member of Promotion Committee of Sirene Harb Fall 2007: Member of Promotion Committee of Roseanne Khalaf Fall 2007: Member of Promotion Committee of Mark Bayer Fall 2006: Member of Promotion Committee of Mark Bayer Fall 2005: Member of Promotion Committee of Lina Choueiri Fall 2004 and Fall 1999: Member of English Curriculum Subcommittee Fall 2003–Fall 2004 & 2000–2001: Coordinator of the English Literature Program c. Faculty-Oriented and General Lectures

Panelist on “The Legacy of Edward Said”. AUB, 10 Oct. 2013.

“Grains of Utopia: The Desert as Literary Oasis in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky and Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands.” Center for Behavioral Research, AUB, Dec. 1999.

2. UMFK a. University and Departmental Service

1994–1998: Contributing Editor to The River Review/La Revue Rivière 1996–1997: Faculty Advisor for Beta Sigma Omega Spring 1997: Member of the AFUM Education Scholarship Fund Committee Spring 1997: Member of the Freshman Seminar Proposal Committee 1996–1997: UMFK Representative on University of Maine System Council on International Programs 1996–1997: Member of the Innovative Teaching Fund Committee 1995–1997: Campus Representative to the Rhodes Scholarship 1995–1997: Member of the Faculty Development Fund Committee 1994–1997: Member of the Honors Program Committee 1994–1995: Member of the Accreditation Subcommittee Summer 1995: Member of the English Search Committee Spring 1995: Consultant for Honors Seminar on “Charismatic Leadership” 25

Spring 1995: Co-director of an Independent Study b. Papers and Lectures

“The Holy Trinity of Academe.” An Alpha Chi Presentation, “Alpha Chi Takes Scholarship Out of the Showcase,” April 1997.

“Viewing Europe from the Outside: The Inside Story.” An Honors Program Presentation, March 1997.

“From Academe to Mainstream: Seeking a True Lingua Franca.” Teaching Luncheon, Nov. 1996.

“The Plague in Literature.” The Humanities Forum, Nov. 1995.

“Crowd Psychology.” Honors Seminar, March 1995.

“East Meets West and Vice Versa: Critical Travel and Intellectual Hybridity in 18th- and 19th-Century European Literature.” The Humanities Forum, March 1995.

“Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East and the American Media.” “Writers, Women, and Religious Fundamentalism: The Case of Taslima Nasrin.” The Humanities Forum, Oct. 1994.

3. Columbia University and Barnard College

Papers and Lectures

“Going the Extra Mile: Alexander Kinglake’s Eothen as a Parodic Satire of 19th-Century Travel Discourse.” Faculty Colloquia, Barnard College, March 1994.

“Different Approaches to Teaching Plato’s Symposium in a Humanities Course.” The Literature-Humanities Colloquia, Columbia University, Nov. 1990.

B. Service to the Community

1. In Lebanon

Interviewer/Administrator for Oral English Test for Cadet Pilot Applicants at MEA, CeLRT, AUB, 30 Nov. 2016

Co-Judge for Malik’s Bookshop Competition of Short Story Writing for Age Group 9– 12; Presenter at the Award Ceremony at the UNESCO Palace, 14 Nov. 2012

Guest Lecturer on Anglophone Lebanese Literature in English 253 (Creative Writing), Balamand University, 25 Nov. 2010 26

TV interview : The State of Research in the Arab World, on KSA 2 English TV Channel (Jan. 2010)

Volunteer Editor of English subtitles for 2 short Lebanese films: Bilbal on post-war memories of a Lebanese man (2008; dir. Nasser Ajami) Jarjaara documenting Tyre fishermen (2006; dir. Nasser Ajami)

2. In the USA

Public Lectures in Fort Kent, Maine

“Excellence in/of Education: Graduating with Honors.” Guest Speaker, The Rotary Club, May 1996.

“Lebanon: A Presentation.” Alpha Chi Spring Forum, UMFK, April 1996; the Elementary School in Wallagrass, April 1995; The Rotary Club, and the Elementary School SAD 27 in Fort Kent, Nov. 1994.

C. Service to the Profession

Dec. 2016–Jan. 2017: Reviewer of Jumana Bayeh’s proposal “Precarious Borders: The Nation-State and Arab Diaspora Literature” for a 2017 Fellowship at University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS) Jan. 2017: External Examiner for the Ph.D. thesis of Sleiman El-Hajj (which combines a novella and a critical thesis) at the University of Gloucestershire, UK Jan. and Feb. 2015: External Referee of Dr. Luma Balaa’s application to Associate Professor at Lebanese American University Jan. and Feb. 2015: Evaluator of Rabih Alameddine’s Work Nominated for the MacArthur Fellowship 2014– : Member of the Editorial Board of Middle Eastern Literatures 2009– : Peer Reviewer for the Qatar National Research Fund 2002–2017: Submission Referee for 15 journals:

College Literature Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Transnational Literature Zentrum Moderner Orient’s “Working Paper Series” Journal of Arabic Literature Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies Excursions Journal Journal of Transnational American Studies Canadian Literature English Studies in Canada MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Journal of Postcolonial Writing 27

Utopian Studies Journal of Tourism History Al-Abhath: Journal of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences (AUB)

2001–2017: Book Reviewer for 8 journals:

Journal of Contemporary History Comparative Literature Studies Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication International Journal of Middle East Studies Studies in Travel Writing Utopian Studies Journal of Islamic Studies British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Chair of Panel 6F titled “Migration in Fiction and Cultural Narratives” at BRISMES Annual Conference 2017: “Movement and Migration in the Middle East: People and Ideas in Flux.” Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, 6 July 2017.

Discussant on Panel 4 titled “Aesthetics and Politics” at the conference “Books in Motion: Exploring Concepts of Mobility in Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book”, AUB and Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), 5–7 May 2016.

Moderator/Chair of Panel titled “Civil Unrest: War, Riot, and Memory” at “The 42nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.” University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 21 Feb. 2014.

Summer 2014: Reviewer of the English translation manuscript of the novel Peanut Years by Mohammed Taan (published in French as Arachide by Editions Présence Africaine in 2000) for Lebanese Emigration Research Center and Nôtre Dame University Press

Moderator/Chair of Panel titled “Teens at Risk: Coming of Age in Peril” at “The 41st Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.” University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 22 Feb. 2013.

Endorser of The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon by Saadi Nikro (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 2012). Endorsement can be viewed at http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/The-Fragmenting-Force-of- Memory--Self--Literary-Style--and-the-Lebanese-Civil-War1-4438-3908-6.htm

Chair of Panel 193 on “Lebanese Literature I” on 21 July 2010 at World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 19–24 July 2010.

Chair of Panel 18 on “Mutual Exclusions: Shared Pain, Different Representations in Post 28

9/11 Literature” at the 2010 Interdisciplinary Conference sponsored by CASAR “Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East.” AUB, 8 Jan. 2010.

Chair of Panel 6 on “War, Occupation and Arab Feminism” at the International Conference “Arab Feminisms: A Critical Perspective.” AUB, 7 Oct. 2009.

Chair of Panel on “Space in Middle Eastern Cinema” at BRISMES Annual Conference: “Frontiers: Space, Separation and Contact in the Middle East.” University of Manchester, UK, 4 July 2009.

Chair of Panel on “Arabic Literature I” at BRISMES Annual Conference: “Mapping Middle Eastern and North African Diasporas.” University of Leeds, UK, 5 July 2008.

Chair of Session B at “Strangers in Paradise: Voices in Exile: A Conference on Literature and Linguistics,” California State University at San Bernardino, Palm Springs, California, April 1995.

D. Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association