Michael started following the work of Baran Germen, University of Oregon, Comparative Literature.
Michael started following the work of Jessie Hock, UC Berkeley, Comparative Literature.
Michael started following the work of Maya Angela, UC Berkeley, French.
Faculty Member, Comparative Literature
About
I'm an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Affiliated Faculty in Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. My research interests include postcolonial literature, literary theory, film studies, the anthropology of secularism, and African and Middle East studies.
My current book project--Inventing World Literature--focuses on a history of reading in colonial Egypt. The various chapters investigate modern literary study as a disciplined practice and address the relation of literature to realism, moral education, empirical science, and discourses of secularization. Looking closely at debates in French, Arabic and English, I question the supposedly universal values that inflect secular education and trace the institutionalized displacement of alternate ways of reading.
Contact Information
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