Boston University

Faculty Member, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature

Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature

About

Margaret Litvin writes about modern Arabic drama and political culture. Her book, "Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost" (Princeton, Oct 2011), examines the many reworkings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in postcolonial Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Her current book project (working title "Arab Writers, Moscow Dreams: Forgotten Flows of Twentieth-Century Culture") explores the educational and cultural ties between the Soviet Union and several Arab countries during and since the Cold War, tracing their effects on Arabic literature and theatre. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and has been an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center.  Her articles and reviews have appeared in Critical Survey, the Journal of Arabic Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Yearbook, and Shakespeare Bulletin.  At BU she advises the Arabic minor and teaches courses on Arabic language and literature (both in Arabic and in English translation), as well as seminars on “Global Shakespeares” and on the worldwide appropriation of the 1001 Nights.

Contact Information

Homepage:

http://www.margaretlitvin.com

 
Middle Eastern Studies
Shakespeare Quarterly
Literature Compass

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