If you will be at the MLA conference this weekend, please see below for information about Arab American Panels. Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Center Program arranged by the Global Arab and Arab American Forum Presiding: Karim Mattar, University of…
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The Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, is seeking to hire a part-time or full-time lecturer able to teach American Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies and/or Latina/o Studies during the 2016-2017 Academic Year. American Studies…
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The English Program at the University of Michigan-Dearborn is seeking to hire a lecturer in American Literature. The job announcement and application procedures can be found here: http://umjobs.org/job_detail/126366/leo_lecturer_iii How to Apply Interested candidates are asked to apply online to this posting and send a CV, cover letter, and at least three references to: Elisa Madrigal,…
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Re-Posted from MLA Members for Justice in Palestine: MLA 2017 Call for Papers, Panels and Palestine Looking for MLA 2017 panels to submit Palestine-related papers? Below is a selection of CFPs on topics that might include papers related to Palestine, BDS, settler colonialism, apartheid, dispossession, transnational justice, orientalism, etc. Deadlines for submission of paper abstracts are…
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Please take note: these CFPs were arranged by the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the MLA for the 2017 convention. Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American Studies. Interrogating concepts of cosmopolitanism, exile, globality through the figure of the Arab refugee across historical/epistemic/disciplinary/geographical boundaries. 250-word abstracts and bios by 15 March to Pauline Homsi Vinson at…
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The University of Massachusetts Press is offering a 30% discount on AASA Member Susan Muaddi Darraj’s new book, A Curious Land, until December 31st. It is a collection of short stories which won the 2014 Grace Paley Award for Fiction. To place orders: Order online or by phone (800-537-5487). To receive a special 30% discount…
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New Book Wins AWP Grace Paley Award for Fiction; New from UMass Press The 2014 winner of the Grace Paley Award is A Curious Land, by Susan Muaddi Darraj. This short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection,…
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ethnic American Literatures and Cultural Productions The University of Oregon’s English Department, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Department, invites applications for a 2016-18 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ethnic American Literatures and Cultural Productions. Applicants should have a demonstrated pedagogical and scholarly investment in the study of race and…
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AASA members are on a roll! Another exciting publication is out, this time from AASA member Nancy El Gendy. Congratulations, Nancy! Her article “Trickster Humour in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home: Negotiating Arab American Muslim Female Sexuality” will be published in Women: a cultural review, vol. 27, no. 1, March 2016 (Open Forum issue).…
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Arab American studies scholar and creative writer Fedwa Malti-Douglas was recently honored at the White House and was granted a National Humanities Medal. Read the full University of California press release by clicking here. Excerpted below: Food activist Alice Waters, historian Vicki Lynn Ruiz and Arabic letters scholar Fedwa Malti-Douglas are among 10 recipients of…
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