Recent Faculty Publications
Dr. Elizabeth Dahab has a new single-author monograph available on Amazon as well as from the publisher: Poetics of Contemporary Narratives in the Arabic Diaspora. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield), 2024.
This book presents a captivating exploration of the rich tapestry of Middle Eastern diasporic literature, spanning the landscapes of Canada and France. With eloquent prose, the author guides readers on an enthralling journey through the intricate interplay of themes, styles, tropes, and sociohistorical context. This monograph breathes life into an array of mesmerizing texts authored by luminaries including Wajdi Mouawad, Khaled Osman, Rawi Hage, Denis Villeneuve, and Soha Béchara whose literary roots span Lebanon and Switzerland. Through meticulous analysis and thoughtful reflection, this work unveils the profound resonance of these writers’ voices across borders and cultures.
2024: “Naim Kattan’s Multiple Reality,” Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes, 36, 135–159.
2020a: “Poetics of Madness and Alienation in a Francophone Canadian Novel,” Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature. Volume 13, #4.
2020b (June): “Systemic Racism and the Killing of Rayshard Brooks,” Counterpunch. Non-academic piece in the spirit of Black Lives Matter.
2020c (March): “The Corona Virus, Trump, and Friday the 13th Press Conference,” Counterpunch. Pertains to Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
2020d: “Burial at Sea: Reconciliation and Bereavement in Wajdi Mouawad’s Littoral (Tideline),” in Selected Proceedings of the 2017 Societies of Activities and Research on the Indian World (Sari) conference on the theme of “Reinventing the Sea: Precarity, Epistemology, Narratives,” pp. 57-65.
2020e: “‘To Roam a Borderless World’: The Poetics of Movement and Marginality in Carnival,” in Beirut to Carnival City: Reading Rawi Hage. Ed. Krzysztof Majer. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2020, pp. 120-134.
2018: “Like a Dancing Gypsy’: A Close Reading of Cockroach,” in Comparative Literature for the New Century. Ed. Giulia de Gasperi. Queen’s University Press, pp. 215-228.
2016: “Poetics of Amnesia and Reverse Migration in Khaled Osman’s Le Caire à corps perdu,” Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Literature. Volume 4, #4 (December).
2015: “On the Poetics of Arab-Canadian Literature in French and English,” in The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars (University of Ottawa). New York: Oxford University Press USA: 639-657.
Read more from Dr. Dahab.
Dr. Crystal Yin Lie would like to share her recent article, published in the interdisciplinary quarterly Biography. “Drawn To History: Healing, Dementia, and the Armenian Genocide in the Intertextual Collage of Aliceheimer’s” explores Dana Walrath’s memoir, Aliceheimer’s: Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass (2016), noting graphic medicine’s commitments to interrogating power relations in medical discourse, highlighting the valuable perspective of dementia experience, and revealing how by juxtaposing personal essay with the visual-verbal affordances of comics, intertextual collage, and the altered book, Walrath links her experiences of caregiving, Alice’s dementia, and Armenian history to the adventures of Carroll’s Wonderland, creating a sense of both dissonance and exploratory freedom to broach subjects that might typically be regarded as unapproachable. The entire issue can be accessed on Project Muse. Readers may also be interested to know that ‘Graphic Medicine’ has been published by the University of Hawai‘i Press (July 2022).
Also from Dr. Lie:
“‘The Real Requires the Fantastic’: Teaching Comics, Race, and Medicine in the Era of Black Lives Matter," Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 18.3, 2024.
“Crip Time as Space: Drawing Chronic Illness in Julia Wertz’s The Infinite Wait and Other Stories," Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 2023.
“Drawn To History: Healing, Dementia, and the Armenian Genocide in the Intertextual Collage of Aliceheimer’s," Biography: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 44, nos. 2-3, 2021.
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies
co-editor, U. Michigan Press, 2021/Open Access
From Dr. Pravina Cooper:
a book review of Naaman Wood and Christopher Booth, A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, November 2024.
a book review of Salman Rushdie’s Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder: “Sense of an ending,” Biblio: A Review of Books 29.4-6, Apr-Jun 2024.
a book review of Perumal Murugan’s Pyre: “The colour of love,” Biblio: A Review of Books 28.10-12, Oct-Dec 2023.
a book review of Neel Patel’s Tell Me How To Be: “The Politics of Desire,” Biblio: A Review of Books 28.1-3, Jan-Mar 2023.
a book review of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand: “Reading Women, Translating Cultures,” Biblio: A Review of Books 27.10-12, Oct-Dec 2022.
a book review of Nawaaz Ahmed’s Radiant Fugitives: “Queering the Diaspora,” Biblio: A Review of Books 27.4-6, April-June 2022
a book review of Allan Sealy’s Asoca: A Sutra: “Allan Sealy’s Asoca is a Doubting Buddhist,” Desi Books, March 14, 2022.
