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Prof. Dr. Michael Allan

Michael Allan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature. His research focuses on debates in world literature, postcolonial studies, literary theory, film and visual culture, and the history of reading, primarily in Africa and the Middle East. In both his research and teaching, he bridges textual analysis with social theory, and draws from methods in anthropology, gender studies, queer theory, religion, and area studies. He is the author of In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton 2016) and of articles in venues such as Comparative Literature Studies, Early Popular Visual Culture, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the Journal of Arabic Literature. He is also a guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Literature ("Reading Secularism: Religion, Literature, Aesthetics"), and with Elisabetta Benigni, a forthcoming issue of Philological Encounters ("Lingua Franca: Toward a Philology of the Sea").

Michael holds his Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under the direction of Judith Butler and Karl Britto.

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