Jonas Elbousty

Jonas Elbousty is an academic, writer, and literary translator. He teaches in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. His roles have included a seven-year period as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is now involved with the Council on Middle East Studies and oversees the Yale Summer Study Abroad Program in Morocco.

Biography
Elbousty holds an MPhil and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

His teaching experience spans several institutions, including Al Akhawayn University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. He has also been a visiting faculty member at various universities, such as Stockholm University.

He has given lectures at numerous universities, including Stockholm University, University of Lisbon, University of Copenhagen, Bochum University, Zhejiang University, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB; 'Free University of Brussels'), Dunărea de Jos University. His teaching and research focus primarily on North African and Middle Eastern Studies, particularly literary narratives. His research interests encompass theories of world literature, Eurocentrism, issues of literary translation, postcolonial literature, modern Arabic fiction, Maghrebi Studies, and the life and works of Mohamed Choukri.

Elbousty is also associated with several research institutions. He is an associate researcher at the Center for Cultural and Multidisciplinary Studies at the Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania, the Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA), the Comparative Humanities and Applied Language Studies (CHALS Lab) at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco, and the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Center (HSSRC) at Ajman University, United Arab Emirates.

Awards

 * Ordre des Palmes académiques
 * 2020 Poorvu Family Award for excellence in teaching at Yale University

Books

 * The Screams of War
 * Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives
 * Tales of Tangier
 * Aswat Muʿasira
 * Media Arabic
 * Advanced Arabic Literary Reader
 * Vitality And Dynamism

Selected literary translation

 * "My Good People, Akram Alkatreb". Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 61, issue 2 (Spring 2022).
 * "Three Packs of Coors Beer, Akram Alkatreb". Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 61, issue 2 (Spring 2022).
 * "My Mother, Akram Alkatreb". Sekka, vol. 6, issue 25 (Spring 2022).
 * "The Pier, Mohamed Choukri". Banipal Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature, issue 73 (Spring 2022).
 * "News on Death and the Dead, Mohamed Choukri". Banipal Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature, issue 73 (Spring 2022).
 * "Women: Cunning and Other Falsehoods, Mohamed Choukri". Banipal Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature, issue 73 (Spring 2022).
 * "My Face Through the Seasons, Mohamed Choukri". ArabLit Quarterly (Spring 2022).
 * "I Know It's War... Six short poems of Wafai Laila", The Asheville Poetry Review, vol. 28, no. 1. 2021, issue 30