Curriculum Vitae

2002 Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

2000 M.Phil. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

1995 M.A. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

1993 M.A. in English Literature, University of Sussex

1992 B.A. in Literature and Society, Brown University

2022–2023 Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Columbia University*

2022 Global Scholar-in-Residence, Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin

2019-2021 Visiting Professor in the Arts and the Humanities, U. of Texas at Dallas

2018–2019 Visiting Scholar, University of Texas at Dallas

2017 Adjunct Professor, George Mason University (Fall 2017)

2016–2017 Visiting Professor of Critical Theory, Global Center for Advanced Studies

2013–2016 Scholar-in-Residence in English Literature, Georgetown University

2002–2013 Assistant Professor of English, Georgetown University

2000–2002 Lecturer in English Literature, Barnard College

1997–1999 Instructor in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

1995–1997 Instructor in Logic and Rhetoric, Columbia University

*Deferred for Health Reasons

2014–2016 Lannan Fellowship for Literary Non-Fiction

2007 Lafferty Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching, Georgetown University

2007 Resident Fellow, Lannan Foundation

2006 Junior Faculty Fellowship, Georgetown University

2005 Graduate School Fellowship, Georgetown University

2000 The Edward Said Reader, New York Times’ Notable Book of the Year

2000 Stern Fellowship, Columbia University

1995–2002 President’s Fellowship, Columbia University

1992 Magna Cum Laude, Brown University

1992 Honors, Program in Literature and Society, Brown University

1992 Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University

Exiled in America: Hannah Arendt, Edward Said between the Holocaust and the Nakba. [In Progress]

The Collected works of Edward Said, 1966—2012, Vol. I – Vol. 3. Vintage: New York. [In Progress, 2026]

The Selected Works of Edward W. Said, 1966–2006. Eds. and Intro. by Andrew N. Rubin (with Moustafa Bayoumi). New York: Vintage in 2019; London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Translations in Chinese, Turkish, and Arabic [Forthcoming].

Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, August 2012. Chinese Translation: Beijing Yanziyue Culture and Art Studio, 2015, Reprinted.

Adorno: A Critical Reader. Eds. and Intro. by Andrew N. Rubin (with Nigel Gibson). Medford, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

The Edward Said Reader. Eds. and Intro. by Andrew N. Rubin (with Moustafa Bayoumi). New York: Vintage, 2000; London: Granta, 2001.

“Edward Said and Hannah Arendt Side by Side: Orientalism as anti-Semitism,” New German Critique [under consideration].

“Orwell’s Lost Palestinian Writings: Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Holocaust, and the Refugee” [under revision for the PMLA].

“Orientalism and the History of Western Anti-Semitism: The Coming End of an American Taboo.” History of the Present, Vol. V, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 95–108.

“Orwell and the Diction of War: Language, Rhetoric, and the Linguistic Properties of Violence.” Georgetown Journal of Foreign Affairs 13.2 (Winter/Spring, 2012): 7–14.

“Orwell and the Globalization of Literature.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 28 (2008): 75–101.

“Edward W. Said (1935–2003).” Arab Studies Quarterly 26.4 (2004): 36–53.

“Edward W. Said” Translated and reprinted in Orytantalìzm: Tartişma Metinleri. Ed. and trans. by Aytaç Yildiz. Istanbul: Dogu Bati, 2007.

“Techniques of Trouble: Edward Said and the Dialectics of Cultural Philology.” South Atlantic Quarterly 102.4 (2003): 861–76.

“Orientalism Reconsidered: Orientalism and the History of European anti-Semitism In Orientalism and After, ed. Maurice Labelle [Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Forthcoming].

“Umanesimo e il terreno di Filologia.” In Edward W. Said: Letteratura, umanesimo e critica del potere. Ed. and Trans. by Marco Gato. Rome: Transeuropaedizioni, 2014.

“Foreword.” In Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, by Edward W. Said. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. i–xii.

“Edward W. Said (1935–2003).” In Orytantalìzm: Tartişma Metinleri. Ed. and Trans. by Aytaç Yildiz. Istanbul: Dogu Bati, 2007.

“Theodor W. Adorno and the Autonomous Intellectual.” In Adorno: A Critical Reader. Ed. Andrew N. Rubin (with Nigel Gibson). Medford, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

“The Adorno Files: Exile, Empiricism and the FBI.” In Adorno: A Critical Reader. Ed. Andrew N. Rubin (with Nigel Gibson). Medford, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

“Introduction.” (with Moustafa Bayoumi) In The Edward Said Reader. Ed. Andrew N. Rubin (with Moustafa Bayoumi). New York: Vintage, 2000; London: Granta, 2000.

“World Literature: Problems and Perspectives.” Ed. Andrew N. Rubin. Special Issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 34 (2014). 352 pages.

“Edward W. Said and After: Toward a New Humanism.” Ed. Andrew N. Rubin (with Matthew Abraham). Special issue of Cultural Critique 67.3 (2007).

“Orientalism, Ideology, and the Reinvention of Europe.” Review of Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism, Canadian Journal of European History, (March 2016).

“Exiled in America.” Review of William Spanos’ Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint. Comparative Literature Studies. Volume 51, Number 3, (2014): 524– 527.

“Edward Said: Orientalism.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. David Huddart. Vol. 1–. (Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong).

“Orientalism and Its Discontents.” Review of Reading Orientalism: The Said and the Unsaid by Dan Varisco. International Journal of Middle East Studies. [Forthcoming].

“Edward Said.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. 25 (2005): 20. Rpt. In Edward Said and Critical Decolonization. Ed. Ferial Ghazoul. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2006.

“We Can No Longer See the Sun Set.” al-Ahram (July 10, 2005): 16–19.

“The Slaughter of Iraq’s Intellectuals.” The New Statesman (6 September 2004): 24–26.

Reprinted “Blood Ba`ath.” In al-Ahram (7 September 2004): 17–18.

“The End of the Enlightenment.” Counterpunch (July 16, 2005).

“Intellectual Giant.” Review of Edward Said: Criticism and Theory by Abdirahman Hussein. Journal of Palestine Studies 33.2 (2004): 111–12.

“In Memoriam: Edward W. Said 1935–2003.” In Remembering Edward Said. Ed. Akeel Bilgrami. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 132–36.

“Grand Hotel Abyss.” Review of Critical Models by Theodor W. Adorno. The Nation (25 May 1998): 28–30.

“Arab Lessons.” Review of Dream Palace of the Arabs by Fouad Ajami. The Nation (23 March 1998): 31–33.

“The Executioner’s Song.” Lingua Franca (July 1995): 17–20.

“Reactor Revival: Nuclear Power Industry Winning by Betting on Fear.” The Boston Phoenix, July 26, 1991.

Reed Irvine’s Ideological Aim.” The Independent, March 7, 1991.

“From Vilnius with Blood: Ending the Gorbachev Myth.” The Independent, February 21, 1991.

“Policing Academia: Cultural Conservatives Score Unprecedented Victory at U.T. Austin.” The Independent, September 13, 1990.

“Senator Pell’s Troubled Vision.” The Phoenix’s NewPaper, January 3, 1990.

“The Readers’ Guide to the Brown Corporation.” Issues Monthly, March 1990.

“Sharpen Teeth of Cuban Embargo?” The Orlando Sentinel, August 20, 1989.

“Remembering Edward Said’s Orientalism,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Rear Vision, July 22, 2018.

“Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Reconsidered.” Shakespeare Theatre Company, Harman Center for the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 2016.

“Arab Modernity and the Poetic Avant-Garde: Interview with Adonis.” Symposium: The World Republic of Literature, Georgetown University, April 2006.

“Orwell and our Contemporary Crisis: A Public Interview and Discussion with Christopher Hitchens.” Georgetown University, March 2006.

“Second Thoughts on the Boycott.” Letter to the Editor (with Paul Bové). The Nation, February 2005.

“The Slaughter of Iraqi Intellectuals.” Between the Lines, WPKN Radio, October 1, 2004.

“An Interview with Terry Eagleton: Edward W. Said, Cultural Politics and Critical Theory.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 25 (2005): 254–69. Reprinted and translated in Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 40 (2006): 124–139.

“Interview with Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim.” Parallels and Paradoxes, 2000.

“The Affiliations of Dispossession: An Interview with Edward Said.” The Edward Said Reader. New York: Vintage, 2000; London: Granta, 2001.

“The Emperor has no Clothes: An Interview with Daniel Ellsberg.” The Independent, February 7, 1991.

“The Responsibility of the Intellectual in the Time of War: A Two-Part Interview with Noam Chomsky.” The Independent, March 7–13, 1991.

“Red Letters: An Interview with Terry Eagleton.” The Independent, February 8, 1990.

“Gore Vidal: An Interview.” Issues Monthly, December 1989

“Edward Said and Hannah Arendt Side by Side: Orientalism as anti-Semitism,” Barenboim-Said Akademie, Jun 6, 2022.

“Between the Holocaust and the Nakba,” Barenboim-Said Akademie, June 7, 2022.

“Orientalism as European anti-Semitism,” Barenboim-Said Akademie, June 8, 2022.

“Imaginary Geographies, Orientalism, and Cavafy’s ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’,” Barenboim-Said Akademie, Jun 9, 2022

“Orwell Between East and West,” Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, January 15, 2021.

“The Invention of “Herd” Immunity and the ‘Masses’,” Division of Translation, United Nations, May 21, 2020.

“Prosthetics, Language, and the Human,” School of Biomedical Engineering, John Hopkins University, April 2020.

“Exiled in America: Hannah Arendt and Edward Said—the Shoah and the Nakba in Counterpoint,” George Mason University, November 8, 2017.

“Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Twenty-First Century,” Smithsonian Museum Lecture Series, July 19, 2017.

Keynote: “Orientalism, anti-Semitism, and the Question of Europe.” University of North Texas, April 2016.

“Nineteen Eighty-Four and our Contemporary Crisis.” Shakespeare Theatre Company, Harman Center for the Arts, Washington, D.C., March 2016.

“Exile, European anti-Semitism, and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Re-reading the Culture Industry.” University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 2015.

“Orientalism and the History of Western Anti-Semitism.” University of Pennsylvania, Department of English Literature, April 2014.

“Late Ecologies of the Human: Empire, Terror, and ‘World’ Literature.” University of Connecticut, Storrs. Department of English and Department of Romance Languages and Culture, April 2013.

“Transnationalism and World Literary Space.” University of Maryland, College Park, November 2011.

“Poetry and Reconciliation.” Mitchell Conference. Queen’s University, Belfast, May 2008.

“Exiled in America: Rethinking Adorno and the Dialectic of Enlightenment.” Villa Aurora, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Pacific Palisades, California, August 2008.

“Philology and Catastrophe.” Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims. Columbia University, November 2008.

“Archives, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge.” Empire, Ideology and the Middle East. Georgetown University, Department of History, April 28, 2006.

“Maps of Literature: A Conversation with Ahdaf Soueif.” Marino Family International Writers Program and the Lannan Program. Georgetown University, September 10, 2005.

Keynote: “Secular Criticism Reconsidered.” University of Tennessee, April 2005.

“The Legacy of George Orwell: Discussion with Christopher Hitchens.” Georgetown University, April 2005.

“Humanism, Freedom and Knowledge: The Legacy of Edward W. Said.” Conference on Arab Studies. Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, March 2005.

“A Tribute to Edward W. Said.” New Bethel Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., June 2004.

“Adorno at 100.” A Symposium with Andreas Huyssen and Martin Jay. Villa Aurora, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Pacific Palisades, California, October 2004.

“Techniques of Trouble: The Legacy of Orientalism.” Orientalism: The Silver Jubilee. Columbia University, New York, April 2003.

“Auerbach, Philology, and the Affiliations Exile.” CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 2001. The Adorno Files.” Colloquium for the Comparative Study of Cultures. Columbia University, New York, January 2001.

“Dispossession, Loss, and Its Affiliations.” Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College, New York, November 2000.

“Orientalism, European anti-Semitism: Erich Auerbach, Edward Said, and the Holocaust,” American Comparative Literature Association, Washington, D.C, March 2018.

“Negative Philology: Orientalism, anti-Semitism, and the European Question,” Modern Language Association, New York, January 2018.

“Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Question of Europe.” American Comparative Literature Association, University of Utrecht, July 2017.

“Orientalism, Philology, and Weltkultur?” Society for the Study of the Novel, The Novel in or Against World Literature, University of Pittsburgh, May 2016.

“Thinking through Catastrophe: Orientalism, European anti-Semitism, and the Responsibility of Comparative Literature.” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 2016.

“Philology in Exile: Orientalism, Western Anti-Semitism, and Auerbach’s Figura.” Seminar on Mimesis. American Comparative Literature Association, University of Washington, March 2015.

“Thinking through Catastrophes: Arendt and Said in Counterpoint.” Postcolonial Division, Modern Language Association, Vancouver, 2015.

“Literary History and the State: Towards a Democratic criticism.” Acl(x) Conference. University of South Carolina, February 2015.

“Orientalism and the History of Western Anti-Semitism: The Coming End of an American Taboo.” American Comparative Literature Association, New York University, March 2014.

“Late Ecologies of World Literature.” American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, Canada, April 2013.

“The Dialectics of Transnational Literary Space.” American Comparative Literature Association, Vancouver, Canada, April 2011.

“The Globalization of Literature.” Lannan Symposium on The World Republic of Literature. Georgetown University, April 2006.

“The Political Economy of the World Republic of Letters.” Institute for Culture and Society, Washington, D.C., June 2005.

“Orientalism and the Discourse of Anti-Semitism.” Institute for Culture and Society, Washington, D.C., June 2005.

“Lost Illusions.” Criticism and Crisis: Academic Freedom and Twenty-First Century Intellectuals. Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 2005.

“Proust, Tolstoy and Out of Place.” Seminar: Space and Empire. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Pennsylvania State University, March 2005.

“Republics of Literature.” Comparative (Post)Colonialisms. American Comparative Literature Association, San Diego, California, April 2003.

“Adorno and the Aporias of Complicity.” Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, March 2003.

“The Orwell Files.” Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, March 2003.

“Modernism and the State.” Modernism and the Archive. Modernist Studies Association Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2002.

“Archives of Authority.” Democracy and/in Literature. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, San Jose, Puerto Rico, April 2002.

“Confinement.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Boulder, Colorado, April 2001.

“State Secrets, Literary Agents.” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 2000.

“The Antinomies of Traveling Theory: Lukács, Adorno, and Said.” The Affiliations of Dispossession. Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1999.

Alif: A Journal of Comparative Poetics (2004–present).

Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin (Summer 2022)

George Mason University (Fall 2017)
Graduate Seminar
”Orientalism, European anti-Semitism, and the Question of Europe: Edward Said and Hannah Arendt”

Georgetown University (2022-2013)
English 042: Modernism and Its Discontents
English 042: Introduction to Modernism
English 043: Criticism Between Culture and System
English 043: Introduction to Critical Theory
English 181: Literary Modernisms
English 200: Aesthetics and Politics
English 202: Joseph Conrad
English 246: George Orwell and the Politics of Style
English 314: Transnational Modernisms
English 316: Orientalism and After
English 399: Twentieth Century Comparative Literature
English 402: Comparative Modernisms
English 426: Literature and Human Rights
English 448: Modernism, Partition and the Nation

Georgetown University (2022-2013)
Graduate Seminars
English 600: Aesthetics and Politics
English 613: Transnational Modernisms
English 619: Aesthetics Under Siege: The Frankfurt School
English 708: Orientalism and the Human
English 709: Orientalism and After
English 710: Orientalism, Weltliteratur, and European Philology

Barnard College (2001-2022)
Undergraduate Lectures
English 103: The Invention of Western Literature
English 104: The Invention of American Literature

Columbia University (1995-2000)
Undergraduate Seminars
English: Introduction to World Literature
English: Logic and Rhetoric

Peer Review
PMLA, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, Contemporary Literature, Mosaic, Norton, Prose Studies, Routledge, Twentieth Century Literature, University of Hong Kong Press, Palgrave, Cultural Critique

Memberships
- Modern Language Association
- Modernist Studies Association
- American Comparative Literature Association
- Middle East Studies Association
- American Studies Association
- Phi Beta Kappa

University of Texas at Dallas
- Co-Principal Director for Proposed Project, “Orientalism in America”
- Interim Co-Director of the Center for Public Humanities Initiative (2020-2021)
- Executive Humanities Initiative (2018– 2021)
- Dissertation Proposal Committee, Hassan Jahanandish, “Use of Sonomyography for Control of Lower-Limb Prosthetic,” Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Dallas, December 2019.

Georgetown University
- Comparative Literature Committee (2012–2013)
- Lannan Committee (2012–2013)
- Post–1900 Anglophone Hiring Committee (2011–2012)
- Lannan Committee (2011–2012)
- Lannan Chair Hiring Committee (2011–2012)
- Faculty Senate, elected (2010–2012)
- Executive Committee, elected (2009–2010)
- Lannan Committee (2009–2010)
- Faculty Senate, Elected (2009–2010)
- Department Self-Study Task Force (2009–2010)
- Lannan Chair Hiring Committee (2009–2010)
- Lannan Committee (2009–2010)
- Lannan Committee (2008–2009)
- Graduate Committee (2007–2008)
- Technology Subcommittee of Graduate Committee (2007–2008)
- Lannan Symposium, Director (2005–2006)
- Graduate Committee (2004–2005)

Bruce Robbins
Old Dominion Professor of the Humanities
Columbia University
Email: bwr2001@columbia.edu

Rob Nixon
Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment
Princeton University
Email: rnixon@princeton.edu

Carolyn Forché
University Professor
Georgetown University
Email: carolynforche@gmail.com

Joan W. Scott
Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science, Emeritus
Institute for Advanced Studies
Email: jws@ias.edu

Penn Szittya
Chair, Department of English, 2005-2009
Georgetown University
Email: szittyap@georgetown.edu