She is currently serving as an Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Her research and teaching interests lie in twentieth century literature, criticism and visual culture of the Middle East and North Africa. Her current book project examines Islamic discourses in relation to Arabophone and Francophone literature of the Maghreb. She is the author of “Revolutionary Eschatology: Islam & the End of Time in al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār’s al-Zilzāl” in Journal of Arabic Literature (42.2-3: 120-147) and “Apocalyptic Pasts, Orwellian Futures: Elle Flanders’ Zero Degrees of Separation,” in GLQ (16.4: 611-621). MEETING LEADER:: Cyrus Schayegh