Research Interests
Eurasian and North African languages and literatures; literary theory; Islam and secularism; Sufism and Islamic philosophy; comparative modernities and modernisms (primarily literary); cultural history; translation.
Qualifying Exams
Genre Theory and Criticism in the West; Poetics, Adab, and the History of Arabic Poetry; Post-War Arabic Literature; Islam, Secularism, and Modernity; Modern Turkish and Iranian Literature; Bilingualism and the Maghreb.
Teaching Experience
The Logic of Dreams with Professor Paul North
Introduction to Theory of Literature with Professor Martin Hägglund
Masterpieces of Arabic Literature with Professor Shawkat Toorawa
Averroes and Thomas Aquinas with Professors Frank Griffel and Volker Leppin (with an Arabic text-reading section)
Introduction to Near Eastern Literatures with Professor Samuel Hodgkin