Tarek El-Ariss

Professor

Appointments

Chair, Middle Eastern Studies Program

The James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College

Professor of Middle Eastern Studies

Area of Expertise

Contemporary Arabic Culture and Media,

Comparative Literature and Critical Theory,

Digital and Visual Culture,

Art

Biography

Tarek El-Ariss is the James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. In 2021, he earned a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete his new book, Water on Fire: A Memoir of War. Trained in philosophy, comparative literature, and visual and cultural studies, he works across disciplines and languages to examine notions of the subject, community, and modernity. His research interests include Arabic literature, culture, and the arts; literary theory, new media, and digital humanities; Nahda and modernity studies; travel writing and the war novel; sci-fi and utopia studies; 18th- and 19th-century French philosophy and literature; and gender and sexuality studies. He is author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political and Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age, and editor of the MLA anthology, The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda.

 

Education

Ph.D. Cornell University

M.A. University of Rochester

B.A. American University of Beirut

Publications

Water on Fire: A Memoir of War (New York: Other Press, 2024)

Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2019)  

 

The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (The Modern Language Association, 2018)

 

Theory in a Global Context: A Critical Practice in Five Steps (Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2021) 

Publications and Citations

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