Biography
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Affiliated with:
Department of French & Italian, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Centers for African, Global, Latin American and Caribbean, South Asian and Middle Eastern, European Union, and Translation Studies
Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Research Interests
- Arabic and Arab Diaspora literatures
- Arabic intellectual history
- comparative literature
- transnational studies
- postcolonial and translation theory
Research Description
My current research focuses on the Arabic novel and on Arab literary and cultural relations with the Americas.
Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UIUC (1998)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Professor, English
Professor, French and Italian
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Recent Publications
Hassan, W. S. (2019). Arabs and the Americas: A Multilingual and Multigenerational Legacy. Review (United Kingdom), 52(2), 166-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2019.1681762
Hassan, W. S. (2018). Geopolítica e os paradigmas da Literatura Comparada nos Estados Unidos. Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, 20(35), 2-9.
Hassan, W. S. (2018). Gibran in Brazil. In H. Zoghaib, & M. Rihani (Eds.), Gibran in the 21st Century: Papers of the 3rd International Conference (pp. 65-84). Lebanese American University Press.
Hassan, W. S. (2018). Postcolonialism and Modern Arabic Literature: Twenty-First Century Horizons. Interventions, 20(2), 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2017.1391711
Hassan, W. S. (2017). Ancient tillage and a cup of rage, by Raduan Nassar. Review (United Kingdom), 50(2), 263-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2017.1415023