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Jonas Elbousty is a senior lector of Arabic Language and Literature at the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department at Yale University. He served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for six years. He is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Council on Middle East Studies, and he is also the director of the Yale Summer Study Abroad Program in Rabat, Morocco.

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

Jonas Elbousty has previously taught at Al Akhawayn University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. He has also held visiting faculty positions in a few universities, including at Stockholm University. He has given lectures at numerous universities, including Stockholm University, University of Lisbon, University of Copenhagen, Bochum University, Zhejiang University, University of Brussels, Dunărea de Jos University.

Elbousty has taught widely in the areas of North African and Middle Eastern Studies, with a special focus on literary narratives. His research interests include theories of world literature, Eurocentrism, problematics of literary translation, postcolonial literature, modern Arabic fiction, Maghrebi Studies, and the life and works of Mohamed Choukri.

He is a literary translator and short story writer, and a consultant and external examiner to academic institutions and NGOs regarding North African and Middle Eastern Affairs. He has directed programs in the MENA region, serves on governmental and non-governmental boards, notably the advisory board of the American Councils for International Education.

He also serves as an associate researcher in many institutions, including the Center for Cultural and Multidisciplinary Studies at Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania, the Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA), the Comparative Humanities and Applied Language Studies (CHALS Lab), Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco, and the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Center (HSSRC), Ajman University, United Arab Emirates.

Publications
Elbousty has numerous publications appearing in Michigan Quarterly Review, ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, Asheville Poetry Review, Banipal, Prospectus, Sekka, Live Encounters, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Journal of North African Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Middle Eastern Literatures.

Books

 * Tales of Tangier
 * Aswat Muʿasira
 * Media Arabic
 * Advanced Arabic Literary Reader
 * Vitality And Dynamism

Journals & literary magazines

 * Michigan Quarterly Review 61 - Decades of Fire (Spring 2022)
 * Sekka 6 - Womanhood (Spring 2022)
 * Middle Eastern Literatures 24 - Syrian poetry in exile: the case of Wafai Lail-a ( Spring 2021)
 * Sekka 6 - The Power of Words (Summer 2022)
 * Banipal 68 - Short Stories (Summer 2020)
 * Banipal 73 - Fiction Past and Present (Spring 2022)
 * Banipal 75 - Celebrating 25 Years of Arab Literature (Winter 2022)