Faculty

College / Department

Teaching areas

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

Research areas

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

Education

PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin- Madison, United States

MA, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin- Madison, United States

BA, English Literature, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Professional experience

Assistant Professor at Notre Dame University- Louaize, Lebanon(2014 - 2015)

Adjunct Professor at Lebanese American University(2012 - 2014)

Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Dissertation Fellow at UW-Madison(2011 - 2012)

Memberships

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

Contact

[email protected]

+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 is currently working on a project on film and social activism.

Publications

Maya Aghasi, Arts: Fiction and Fiction Writers: United States, Published, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online, -, 14, pp. -, 2016

Maya Aghasi, Mazen Naous, Mazen Naous, Pedagogy of an execution: National identity as a gendered structure of vision in Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose., Published, pp. 51-74, 2016

Conference Presentations

Maya Aghasi, 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, Washington, DC, March, 2019

Grants and sponsorships

Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2020

AMICAL Cohort to Digital Humanities Institute- Beirut, AMICAL

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.