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Andrew Rubin (born 1969)is an American writer, journalist, and professor. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Biography
Andrew Rubin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1969. He grew up in Dallas, Texas, and attended Brown University from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1992. At Brown University he studied under Robert Scholes, and was a prolific writer, and with others founded The Independent, whose editors included the writer Laura Secor. In 2002, he received his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and wrote his dissertation under the supervision of Edward Said. In 2002, Rubin was appointed as an Assistant Professor in English at Georgetown University.

Publications
He is the co-editor of The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966-2006 as well as a book on Theodor Adorno. He is the author of Archives of Authority: Culture, Empire and the Cold War, which received a Lannan award for Literary Non-Fiction in 2014.   He is currently writing a manuscript on the representations of exile and dispossession in the works of Hannah Arendt and Edward Said. His writings on culture and politics have been widely published in magazines and journals such as The New Statesman, The Nation, and elsewhere. Archives of Authority was recently translated and published in China, and his edited selections of Edward Said’s writings continue to be translated in languages inclufing Arabic, Chinese, Turking, and Spanish. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Life
Rubin was born in 1969 and at the age of four moved to Fort Worth Texas, after which the family moved to Dallas, where Rubin would spend his adolescence until matriculating at Brown University, where he was regarded as public writer who interviewed intelletuals such as Gore Vidal, Daniel Elsberg, Noam Chomsky, Todd Gitlin and Alexander Cockburn, for whom he later wrote in Counterpunch. After graduating, Rubin tried unsuccessfully to write, and in 1993 left the U.S to attend the University of Sussex, where he would studied under reknowned academics such as Homi Bhabha. Having returned to New York in 1995, Rubin worked on the philosophy list at Routledge, which, at the time was publishing books such as Judith Butler GenderrTrouble and Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx. Rubin occassionally wrote for independent publications such as Lingua Franca, for which he wrote an eccentri essay on the Serbian war criminal, K. and worked on the transation with the famous Serbian film maker Lazar Stayovich.