Enass N.W. Khansa American University of Beirut| Arabic Dept
Enass N.W. Khansa American University of Beirut| Arabic Dept|College Hall, 482|Beirut, Lebanon| Ek39@aub.edu.lb Education: Georgetown University, Ph.D. (2015) in Arabic and Islamic Studies (Distinction) Academic Positions The American University of Beirut, Assistant Professor (January 2018-Present) § Courses designed and taught, Readers of al-Andalus (Undergraduate, 2018, 2019) The Caliphate and the Arts (Undergraduate, 2019, 2021) Mirrors for Princes (Undergraduate, 2018, 2020) Rhetoric and Power (Graduate Seminar, 2018, 2020) Visual and Literary Culture of the Islamic West (Graduate Seminar, 2021) § Academic Committees: served as an adviser & a reader on Ph.D. and MA thesis committees. § Reviws: I have reviewed articles for JAL, JAS, and Abhath. Georgetown University, Lecturer Arabic Language & Culture (2012 – 2014) Middlebury College, Faculty Total-Immersion Arabic Language & Culture (Summer 2012) Fellowships § The Library of Arabic Literature at NYU-Abu Dhabi, Fellow (2020-2021) The fellowship will focus on producing a scholarly edition of the medieval love manual, The Ring of the Dove by Ibn Ḥazm (b. Cordoba 384/994, d. Montija [Huelva] 456/1064), the Andalusī scholar. § Arab-German Young Academy, Fellow (2019-2024) In 2019-2020, I co-designed two projects: Making the Medieval Modern, through which creative inerpretation is introduced as an approach to reading medieval Arabic literature; and Summer School on Readership, a three day workshop, in which a group of scholars mentor gratudate students on producing scholarly articles on approaches to authorship and readership in Arabic culture. § Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas,́ Visiting Scholar (Summer 2018) I joined the research project entitled “The Impact of the Maghrib on the Mashriq Project,” through which scholars of Andalusī studies examine, from different perspectives, how the intellectual conversations of the Islamic Maghrib reverberated and influenced knowledge production in the Islamic Mashriq.
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