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Jonas Elbousty

Jonas Elbousty is the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University. He has previously taught at Emory, Georgia Tech, and Columbia. He holds an MPhil and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught widely in the areas of North African and Middle Eastern Studies, with a special focus on literary narratives. His research interests focus on the theories of world literature and its inextricable tie to Eurocentrism, problematics of literary translation, Cultural History, the Image of the Arab in U.S literary narratives, Postcolonial literature, Modern Arabic Fiction, Maghrebi Studies, and the life and works of Mohamed Choukri. Besides his academic responsibilities, he is a literary translator and a short story writer. He also writes and translates poetry.

He has received many awards, including the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and 2020 Poorvu Family Award for excellence in teaching at Yale.

Books:

Advanced Arabic Literary Reader

Vitality and Dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition