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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

world literatures, postcolonial literatures, comics, writing composition, public speaking, film, gender and literature

Research areas

narrative, gender and gender expression, world and transnational literatures, immigrant literature, Arab American writing, film in the Arab world, comics.

Education

PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin- Madison, United States, 2012
MA, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin- Madison, United States, 2007
BA, English Literature, Lebanese American University, Lebanon, 2004

Professional experience

Assistant Professor, Department Of English And Translation, Notre Dame University- Louaize, Lebanon, 2014 - 2015
Adjunct Professor, Lebanese American University, 2012 - 2014
Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Dissertation Fellow, Canter For Research On Gender And Women, UW-Madison, 2011 - 2012

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2588

Dr. Maya Aghasi

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin- Madison, United States

Maya Aghasi's research interests include conflict studies, literary theory, cross-cultural encounters, minorities in the Arab Middle East, and gender and women's studies, and she works in English, Arabic and French. She has a variety of teaching experience in both the US and Lebanon, teaching courses from introductory composition to master's level seminars. She just finished a project on film and social activism in Lebanon, and is working on a book tentatively titled, Trashscapes of the Modern Middle East.

Publications

Maya Aghasi. Garbage, State Corruption, and Political Protest in Lebanese Literature and Film, Journal Of Middle Eastern Literatures
Maya Aghasi. “Pour dire la souffrance des innocents?” Problematics of the Madonna-Son Trope in Representing Trauma in Philippe Aractingi’s Under the Bombs and Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum, 12 December 2021
Maya Aghasi. World Literature in the World? Kahf’s _The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf_ and the Transnational Reading Public, Journal Of World Literature, 4 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2021
Maya Aghasi. Remembering Genocide: The Sacred Madonna and Narrative Closure in Atom Egoyan's Ararat, Canadian Journal Of Film Studies, 24 September 2021
Maya Aghasi. Arts: Fiction and Fiction Writers: United States, Encyclopedia Of Women And Islamic Cultures Online, 1 December 2016
Maya Aghasi. "Pedagogy of an execution: National identity as a gendered structure of vision in Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose.", In _identity And Conflict In The Middle East And Its Diasporic Cultures_, Edited By Mazen Naous., September 2016

Conference Presentations

Postmemory and the Madonna: Identity, Loss, and the Mother in Atom Egoyan’s Ararat., Trauma And Recovery: Challenges To Motherhood In Contemporary Literature And Culture, 7 March 2019

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Waste Cultures in the Modern Middle East, AUS Faculty Research Grant, 1 June 2023 - 31 May 2026
Grant, Faculty Research Grant: The Sans-Papiers, Stateless, and Refugee: Maternal Feminism and Political Intervention in Nadine Labaki’s Capernaüm, 1 June 2020 - 31 May 2021
Grant, Faculty Research Grant: World Literature in the World: The Crossroads of the Postcolonial, the Transnational, and Globalization, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2019 - 31 May 2020
Grant, AMICAL Cohort to Digital Humanities Institute- Beirut, AMICAL, May 2019

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