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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

world literatures, postcolonial literatures, writing composition, public speaking, genre, gender and literature

Research areas

narrative, gender and gender expression, the postcolonial, modernity, historical fiction, immigrant literature, Arab American writing, transnational literature.

Education

PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-- Madison, 2012

Professional experience

American University of Sharjah, Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2015-current.
Notre-Dame University, Louaize, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Translation, 2014-15.
Lebanese American University, Adjunct, English Department, 2012-2014.
University of Wisconsin- Madison, Teaching Assistant, Department of Comparative Literature, 2005-2007 and 2009-2010; Department of Communication Arts, 2010-2011.

Memberships

Modern Language Association (MLA), American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)

Contact

maghasi@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2588

Dr. Maya Aghasi

Assistant Professor
PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Maya Aghasi’s research interests include narratives of conflict, literary theory, cross-cultural encounters, 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 has presented her research in various international conferences and is currently working on a book titled, The Politics of Looking: Gender, Race, and Bodies in Literary Narratives.

Publications

Women, gender, and women’s fiction: The United States. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture. Supplement 14. December 15, 2016.
Pedagogy of an execution: National identity as a gendered structure of vision in Etel Adnan’s Sitt Marie Rose. In Naous, M. (ed.) Identity and conflict in the Middle East and its diasporic cultures. 51-74. Balamand: Publications of the University of Balamand, 2016

Conference Presentations

"The narrating eye: Identity as a structure of vision, and its problems: Etel Adnan?s Sitt Marie Rose." Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, 2014. Paper presentation.
" 'Taller than the army general, even without a donkey?s legs': Catastrophe, disappearance, laughter in Emile Habibi?s The Pessoptimist." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention. Brown University, Providence, RI, 2012. Paper presentation.
"Historical Fiction and the Postcolonial, Transnational Condition." Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington DC, forthcoming Nov. 2017. Paper presentation.
"The sight of the feminine: Anxieties, violence, and subversion." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention. Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2017. Paper Presentation.

Awards and Honors

AUS Seed Grant. American University of Sharjah, Sharjah UAE, 2016-17.
AMICAL Consortium’s Co-Design: Integrating Information Literacy into your Disciplinary Course, American University of Paris, Paris, France March 31-April 1, 2017.
Sawyer Seminar Humanities Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Seminar title: “Globalization and the New Politics on Women’s Rights” at the Center for Research on Gender and Women, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2011-2012.
Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Chadbourne Residential College Learning Community, 2009-10 and 2010-11.
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Arabic, UW-Madison, Academic Year, 2007-08 and 2008-09 & Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Arabic, Al- Diwan Arabic Language Center-Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, Summer 2008.

Other creative/research

"Arab American women writers: Invisibility, Islamic feminism, community." Department of English Lecture Series. American University of Sharjah, October 9, 2016.

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