Comparative Literature
Ahmad Abu Ahmad
Research Interests
Palestinian literature and film, Classical and Modern Arabic literature, linguistic and (inter)cultural contact zones, translation, settler colonialism and postcolonial studies, language and death
Biography
Ahmad Abu Ahmad is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University, and he holds a BA in English and an LLB in law from Tel Aviv University. His research examines the politics of linguistic and (inter)cultural contact zones and the politics/poetics of death in Palestinian literature and film, and investigates the intersections of memory, speech acts, and space. He is invested in questions of sovereignty and violence in the project of settler-colonial state-building, in addition to his work across the modern and classical Arabic literary traditions and literary translation more broadly.
Education:
B.A. in English Literature, Tel Aviv University, 2018
LL.B. in Law, Tel Aviv University, 2018
Languages:
Arabic, English, Hebrew