Barbara Harlow Department of English

The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 Tel: 512-471-4991

bharlow@mail.utexas.edu PERSONAL: Born: 18 December 1948, in Cleveland, Ohio Home Address: 1809 West 11th Street, Austin, TX 78703 Tel: 512-472-9529 EDUCATION: State University of New York at Buffalo 1973-77, PhD 1977, Comparative Literature Dissertation: “Marcel Proust: Studies in Translation” Committee: Eugenio Donato (director), Carol Jacobs, René Girard University of Chicago 1970-72, MA 1972, Romance Languages and Literatures Simmons College 1966-1970, BA 1970, French/Philosophy ADDITIONAL EDUCATION: Freie Universität, West Berlin 1975-77 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 1972-73, 1974-75 Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 1972-73 UT APPOINTMENTS: Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature, 2000- (with courtesy appointments in/affiliations with Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice) Professor, Department of English, 1994- Associate Professor, Department of English, 1988-94 Assistant Professor, Department of English 1985-1988 OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE: Visiting Professor/Acting Head of Department, English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo, 2006-07 Visiting Professor, English, University of Natal at Durban (South Africa) Fall 2002 Visiting Professor, English, University of Natal at Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) Fall 1998 Visiting Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Winter/Spring 1994 Visiting Lecturer, English, University College Galway (Ireland), Spring 1992 Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1984-5 Lecturer, Yale University, English, Fall 1983/Near Eastern Studies, Spring 1984 Associate Professor, Wesleyan University, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Spring/Summer 1984 Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University, Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Summer 1981 Associate Professor, American University in Cairo, English and Comparative Literature, 1982-83 Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo, English and Comparative Literature, 1977-82 HONORS AND GRANTS: Society for the Humanities Fellow, Cornell University 1985-86 Visiting Scholar in English, Wesleyan University 1983-84 Mellon Fellow, Wesleyan University 1979-80 Graduate Fellow, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1973-76 American Association of University Women Fellow, 1975-76 Ford Foundation Fellow, University of Chicago, 1970-72

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: After Lives: Legacies of Revolutionary Writing. Verso 1996. Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention. Wesleyan University Press, 1992. Resistance Literature. Methuen, 1987. Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding books/1987. EDITED COLLECTIONS: From the East India Company to the Suez Canal. Vol. I. Archives of Empire. Edited with Mia Carter. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. The Scramble for Africa. Vol II. Archives of Empire. Edited with Mia Carter. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. Imperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited with Mia Carter. Blackwell, 1999. Palavers of African Literature (Vol. 1) and African Writers and Their Readers (Vol. 2): Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors. With Toyin Falola. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002. The View from Within: Writers and Critics on Contemporary Arabic Literature. Edited with Ferial Ghazoul. American University in Cairo Press, 1994. SECTIONS OF BOOKS: “Hamida’s Options: Egyptian Futures versus British Interests in Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley,” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz. Eds. Wail S. Hassan and Susan Muaddi Darraj. NY: Modern Language Association of America, 2012. 118-129. “Diamonds, IDBism, and De Beers,” Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation. Ed. Purnima Bose and Laura E. Lyons. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 128-150. “Protest and Resistance,” The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel. Ed. F. Abiola Irele. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 51-68. “Berlin Conference,” A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English. Ed. Prem Poddar and David Johnson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. 63-4. “Nelio and Suleiman as Tattle-Tales: Literature, Human Rights and Storytelling.” The First Centenary of Cairo University International Symposium. Ed. Ahmed Etman. Cairo: Cairo University, 2008. 442-447. “’No Short Cuts’: Landmines, HIV/Aids and Africa’s New Generation,” Health Knowledge and Belief Systems in Africa. Ed. Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. 461-7. “Sanctions against South Africa: Hiistorical Example or Historic Exception?” The Post-Colonial and the Global. Ed. Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 191-199. “Durban Works,” Urbanization and African Cultures. Ed. Toyin Falola and Steven S. Salm. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 235-45. “Ruth First and Olive Schreiner,” The Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa. Ed. Toyin Falola. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 329-53. “Berlin Conference,” A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatues in English. Ed. Prem Poddar and David Johnson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. “From Haifa to Camden Town – and Back Again,” Between the Archival Forest and the Anecdotal Trees: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Palestinian Social History. Birzeit: Birzeit University Press, 2004. 47-62. “John Buchan,” “H. Rider Haggard,” “Elspeth Huxley,” “Missionaries,” “Pacification.” The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia. Edited by M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.

“’Good Men in Africa?’: From Missionaries to Mercenaries,” Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies Across the Disciplines, Edited by Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002, 251-61. “Partitions and Precedents: Sahar Khalifeh and Palestinian Political Geography,” Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women’s Novels. Edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Paula W. Sunderman, Terese Saliba. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002, 113-31. “Structurally Adjusted Amnesia: South Africa’s Long March and Longer Walk to Freedom,” Reading Global Socialist Cultures After the Cold War: The Reassessment of a Tradition. Edited by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 149-164. “What Was She Doing There?: Women as ‘Legitimate Targets’”. Women, Gender and Human Rights: A Global Perspective, Edited by Marjorie Agosín. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 267-82. “Barrios de Chungara, Domitila.” Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms (2 Vols.). Edited by Margaretta Jolly. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. 92-3. “Carceles clandestinas: Interrogación, Debate y Dialogo en El Salvador.” Translated by Luis Marentes and Raquel Medina. La Literatura Centroamericana como arma cultural. Edited by Jorge Roman Lagunas and Rick McCallister. Guatemala: Editorial Oscar de León Placios. 1999. (Translation of a chapter from Barred). “From the Women’s Prison: Third World Women’s Narratives of Prison,” Women, Autobiography. Theory. Edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 453-60. (Reprinted from Feminist Studies, 1986). “Ruth First and the Politics of Dissent,” AUETSA 96: Conference Proceedings. Bellville: University of Western Cape Press, 1997. 196-200. “Testimonio and Survival,” The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America. Edited by George M. Gugelberger. Duke University Press, 1996. 70-83. (Reprint from Latin American Perspectives, 1991). “From the Civilizing Mission to Humanitarian Interventionism: Postmodernism, Writing and Human Rights,” Text and Narration. Edited by Peter C. Pfeiffer and Laura García-Moreno. Camden House, 1996. 31-47. “The Novels of Ghassan Kanafani,” Great Literature of the Eastern World. Edited by Ian P. McGreal. Harper Collins, 1996. 547-50. “The Writing on the Wall,” Theory Rules. Edited by Jody Berland, Will Straw, David Tomas. Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996. 115-28. “Gender and Colonialism in an Age Called ‘Postcolonial’,” Gender and Colonialism. Edited by T.P. Foley, L. Pilkington, S. Ryder, E. Tilley. Galway: Galway University Press, 1995. 282-96. “’Political Status’: Writing Gender in Resistance,” Discourse and Palestine: Power, Text and Context. Edited by Annelies Moors, Toine van Teeffelen, Sharif Kanaana, Ilham Abu Ghazaleh. The Hague: Het Spinhuis, 1995. 207-219. “Writers and Assassinations,” Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora. Edited by Sidney J. Lemelle and Robin D.G. Kelley. Verso, 1994. 167-184. “Gayatri Spivak,” The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing. Edited by Cathy Davidson and Linda-Wagner Davidson. Oxford University Press, 1995. 843-44. “Negotiating Treaties: Maastricht and NAFTA,” Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order. Edited by Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, Carole Biewener. Guilford Press, 1994. 506-17. “Law and Order in A Passage to India,” Approaches to A Passage to India. Edited by Tony Davies and Nigel Wood. Open University Press, 1994. 65-89. “Readings of National Identity in the Palestinian Novel,” The Arabic Novel Since 1950: Critical Essays, Interviews and Bibliography. Edited by Issa J. Boullata Mundus Arabicus 5/Dar al-Mahjar, 1992. 89-108. “The Palestinian Intellectual and the Liberation of the Academy,” Edward Said: A Critical Reader. Edited by Michael Sprinker. Blackwell, 1992. 173-93.

“’The Tortoise and the Birds’: Strategies of Resistance in Things Fall Apart,” Approaches to Teaching Things Fall Apart. Edited by Bernth Lindfors. Modern Language Association, 1991. 74-9. “Sites of Struggle: Immigration, Deportation, Prison and Exile,” Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideology. Edited by Hector Calderon and José Saldîvar. Duke University Press, 1991. 149-163. Reprinted in Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space. Edited by Margaret Higonnet and Joan Templeson. University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. 108-24. “Memory and Historical Record: The Literature and Literary Criiticism of Beirut 1982,” Left Politics and the Literary Profession. Edited by Lennard J. Davis and M. Bella Mirabella. Columbia University Press, 1990. 186-208. “Commentary: ‘All That Is Inside Is Not Center’: Responses to the Discourses of Domination,” Coming to Terms: Feminism, Theory, Politics. Edited by Elizabeth Weed. Routledge, 1989. 162-70. “Arabic Bibliography,” International Bibliography of Literary Theory 1984-85. Edited by Ralph Cohen and Jeffrey Peck. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. With Muhammad Siddiq. 1-4. “Arab Women Writers 1975-1975,” Introduction to section on Arab women’s writing, Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women. Edited by Marian Arkin and Barbara Shollar. Longman, 1989. 1163-71. “Sentimental Orientalism,” Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North: A Casebook. Edited by Mona Takieddine Amyuni. American University in Beirut, 1985. 75-79. INTRODUCTIONS: “From the Year of the Elephant Through the “Years of Lead,” Leila Abouzeid. Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence. 2nd Edition. University of Texas Press, 2009. xi-xv. “Women’s Rights, Human Rights,” Salwa Bakr, The Wiles of Men and Other Stories. University of Texas Press, 1993. xiii-xxii. “Introduction,” Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani. Interlink Books, 1992. xi-xiv. “Gender and Political Change,” Special Issue of Middle East Report on Gender and Politics 173 (1991), 4-8. With Julie Peteet. “Third World Theorizing,” Special Issue of the Journal of the Society for Critical Exchange. Fall 1986. “Modern Arab Writers and the Politics of the Middle East,” Special Issue of Arab Studies Quarterly, 8,2 (1986). 101-3. “Introduction,” Malek Alloula. The Colonial Harem. Translated by Myrna and Wlad Godzich. University of Minnesota Press, 1986. ix-xxi. “Introduction,” Ghassan Kanafani, Palestine’s Children. Heinemann/Three Continents Press, 1984. iv-xviii. ARTICLES: “’The Geography and the Event’: Questions of Palestine and Their Eventual Jurisdiction.” Interventions, 14, 1 (2012), 13-23. “United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (2011): Libya in the Dock.” With Daniel Kahozi, Lucas Lixinski, and Caroline Carter. Rapoport Center Human Rights Working Paper Series. December 2011. http://blogs.utexas.edu/rapoportcenterwps/working-papers/62011-barbara-harlow-daniel-kahozi-lucas-lixinski-and-caroline-carter-united-nations-security-council-resolution-1973-2011-libya-in-the-dock/ “’Extraordinary Renditions’: tales of Guantánamo, a review article,” Race and Class 52, 1 (2011), 1-29. “Child and/or Soldier?: From Resistance Movements to Human Rights Regiments,” CR: The New Centennial Review 10, 1 (2010), 195-215.

“Public Spheres, Personal Papers, Pedagogical Practices: Ruth First’s Academic Postings to/from Dar es Salaam and Maputo,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, special issue on “the university and its discontents: Egyptian and global perspectives. 20 (2009). 171-194. Reprinted in Africa Development 35, 3 (2010), 47-67. “’Flushed with elation’: Ruth First at the University of Dar es Salaam,” Chemchem: Bulletin of the Mwalimu Professorial Chair in Pan-African Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam (inaugural issue, 2009). Reprinted in Pambazuka News 454 (10-22-2009). www,pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59662. “Tortured Thoughts: From Marshall Square to Guantánamo Bay,” Biography 32, 1 (2009), 26-42). “Resistance in Writing: Ghassan Kanafani and the ‘Question of Palestine,’” The Middle East Institute Viewpoints: The State of the Arts in the Middle East (2009). 20-22. www.mei.org. “Red Lines and Green Books: Ruth First in Libya,” Current Writing 16, 1 (2008). 15-32. “Mismar Guha: al-Tahadda al-Arabi li-l-Tatbia al Thaqafia,” Fusul 72 (2008). 20-32, Translation of “Mismar Guha: The Arab Challenge to Cultural Dependency,” South Atlantic Quarterly 87, 1 (1988). “Landmines, HIV/Aids, and Africa’s New Generation,” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 9, 1 (2007). http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol9/iss1/7. Reprinted in Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror. Eds. Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2010 (243-51). “From Basra to Guantanamo: Resistance Literature Revisited,” Al-Ahram Weekly, 891 (9-15 November 2006). “Remember the Solidarity Here and Everywhere,” Middle East Report 229 (2003). 4-7. Reprinted in Bibhash Choudhury (Editor), Edward Said and the Politics of Culture. Assam, India: Bhabani Print and Publications, 2008. “The ‘Kimberley Process’: Literary Gems, Civil Wars, and Historical Resources,” CR: The New Centennial Review 3.2 (2003). 219-40. “Looked Class, Talked Red: Sketches of Ruth First and Redlined Africa,” Meridians 3,1 (2002), 226-51. “Redlined Africa: Ruth First’s Barrel of a Gun,” Biography 25.1 (2002). 151-70. “A Chapter in South African Verse: Interview with Jeremy Cronin,” ALIF 21 (2001). 252-70. “Boers and Bores: International Delegations and Internal Debates,” Kunapipi. Special Issue on the South African War. 21, 3 (1999). 90-102. “Prisons,” Program #64 of What’s the Word?. Produced by the MLA for NPR, 2000. “Mine Magnates and Mine Snakes: Diamond and Gold Stories from Southern Africa,” Voices from South Africa. Middfest International Foundation, 1999. 7-11. “On Literature and Resistance: A Discussion with Barbara Harlow,” Against the Current, May/June 1998. 38-40. “Sappers in the Stacks: Colonial Archives, Land Mines and Truth Commissions,” boundary 2 25, 2 (1998). 179-204. Reprinted in Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power. Edited by Paul Bové. Duke University Press, 2000. Sections translated into Arabic as “Land Mines and Fact-Finding Missions,” Sutour 54 (2000). 26-30. “Writers and Assassinations,” Suitcase, II 1-2 (1997), 116-22. Reprinted from After Lives. “Speaking from the Dock,” Callaloo, Special Issue on Post-Colonial Discourse, 16, 4 (1993), 874-90. “Drawing the Line: Cultural Politics and the Legacy of Partition,” Polygraph 5 (1992). 84-111. “Travel Restrictions,” Harbour 5 (1992), 45-9. “Min Warrah: Interview with Edward Said,” Harbour 5 (1992). Reprinted in an expanded version as “the Intellectuals and the War” in Edward Said, The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination. Pantheon, 1994. “’Linkages’: Gramsci and the ‘Gulf Crisis’”: Socialism and Democracy 7, 3 (1991). 107-23.

“Multiculturalism As It Really Is,” Against the Current 35 (1991), 5-10. With Brian Bremen, Ann Cvetkovich, Michael Hanchard, Anne Norton, Gretchen Ritter, Ramón Saldívar. “Testimonio and Survival: Roque Dalton’s Miguel Marmol,” Latin American Perspectives 18, 4 (1991). 9-12. “Adab al-mar’a al-muqawama,” Al-Hadaf 1053 (19 May 1991). Translation into Arabic of a section of Resistance Literature. “Prison Culture: Countering the Occupation,” Border/Lines 19 (1990). 18-25. “Political Detention: Countering the University,” October 53 (1990). 41-61. Interview on Ghassan Kanafani and the Politics of Culture. Al-Adab 6-7 (1990). 27-51. “An al-rijal wa-l banadiq,” Al Hadaf 968 (7 July 1989). 42-4. Translation into Arabic of a section from Resistance Literature. “Narrative in Prison: Stories from the Palestinian Intifada,” Modern Fiction Studies. Special Issue on Narratives of Colonial Resistance. 35, 1 (1989). Issue received Honorable Mention in the Best Special Issue category for 1990 from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Translation into Arabic as “Al fan al-riwayyi’ fi-l-sijn,” Al Hadaf, 988 and 989 (1989). Reprinted in Al Adab 6-7 (1990). “Mismar Guha: The Arab Challenge to Cultural Dependency,” South Atlantic Quarterly 87, 1 (1988). 109-29. Reprinted in The New Historicism Reader. Edited by Harold Veeser. Routledge, 1994. 295-310. “The Future Belongs to the Children: Dar al-Fata al-Arabi and Arabic Children’s Literature,” Il Giiornale dei Genitori (1987), 34-7. In Italian. “Creativity Behind Bars,” Samedoon 1,1 (1987), 1 and 5. “Frantz Fanon and Narratives of Resistance,” New Formations 1.1 (1987). 131-35. “Egyptian Intellectuals and the Debate on the ‘Normalization of Cultural Relations,’” Cultural Critique 4 (1986). 33-59. “From the Women’s Prison: Third World Women’s Narratives of Prison,” Feminist Studies 12, 3 (1986). 501-24. Translated into Arabic as “Min sijn al-nisa’ al-allam al-thalath an al-sijn,” Fusul (1992). 353-67. “Return to Haifa: Opening the Borders in Palestinian Literature,” Social Text 12-14 (1986). 2-23. “Twelve Stories for Arab Children,” Arab Studies Quarterly 8, 1 (1986). 21-28. “Camus and Algeria: 1985,” CELFAN Review 4,3 (1985), 31-5. “History and Endings: Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun and Tawfiq Salih’s The Duped,” minnesota review 25 (1986). 279-286. “About Cairo: E.W. Lane’s Account and Ahmad Amin’s Dictionary,” Journal of the History of Ideas 46,2 ((1985). 279-86. “An Introduction to Balach Khan,” Seneca Review 2, 14 (1984). 42-7. “Palestine or Andalusia: The Literary Response to the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon,” Race and Class 26, 2 (1984). “The Maghrib and The Stranger,” ALIF 3 (1983). 38-55. “Othello’s Season of Migration,” Edebiyat 4.2 (1979). 157-75. “Realignment: Alois Riegl’s Image of Late Roman Art Industry,” Glyph 3 (1978). 118-36. “Ecce Homo: A Questionable Epigraph,” Nuova Corrente 68-69 (1975-76). 585-613. “Sur la lecture,” MLN 90 (1975). 849-71.

EDITING: “After the Third World,” Special Issue of CR: The New Centennial Review. With James Cox, Jeremy Dean, Molly O’Hagan Hardy, Neville Hoad, Coleman Hutchison. 10, 1 (2010). “South African Fiction After Apartheid,” Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies. With David Attwell. Spring 1999. “Irish Prison Poetry,” Seneca Review. Fall/Winter 1993/4. With Brian Campbell. REVIEW ESSAYS: “Crossroads Guantánamo,” New Formations. 59 (Autumn 2006). 158-165. “Alibis in the Archives: Betty Joseph’s Reading the East India Company,” H-Gender-Mideast. November 2004. “No Short Cuts: Henning Mankell’s Secrets in the Fire and Playing With Fire,” St. John’s University Humanities Review. 2,2 (2004), 62-7. “If truth be told…”, Bill Rolston, Unfinished Business; Henk Van Woerden, A Mouthful of Glass; Richard J. Goldstone, For Humanity. Race and Class. Special Issue on “Truth?” 44,1 (2002), 119024. “Where Are the Women?”, Maryann G. Valinks and Mary O’Down (eds), Women and Irish History; Megan Sullivan, Women in Northern Ireland. Irish Journal of Feminist Studies 4,1 (2000). 104-8. “Palestine: Kan Wa Ma Kan,” Rosemary Sayigh, Too Many Enemies; Bassma Kodmani-Darwish, La diaspora palestinienne; Susan Slyomovics, The Object of Memory. Diaspora 7,1 (1998). 75-85. Frank Rosengarten (ed), Antonio Gramsci: Letters from Prison. Socialism and Democracy 9,1 (1995). 198-206. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism. Design Book Review 29/30 (1993). 23-6. “Afro-Caribbean Liberations,” Patrick Taylor, The Narrative of Liberation: Perspectives on Afro-Caribbean Literature. Novel 24,3 (1991), 319-22. “Travel Documents: Redelegating Representation,” Social Text 27 (1991), 72-87. “Prison Text, Resistance Culture,” Adil Amr, Al-Zafirun bi-l-ar, Middle East Report 164-5 (1990) 67-9. Yusuf Idris, The Sinner; Emily Nasrallah, Flight Against Time; Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, The Ship. Al-Arabiyya 22 (1989) 177-9. “Re-Imagining the Penitentiary,” John Bender, Imagining the Penitentiary, Novel 23,2 (1990), 209-11. Timothy Mitchell, Colonizing Egypt, Middle East Report 159 (1989) 40-3. “Cultural Resistance,” Kofi Natambu (ed), Nostalgia for the Present: An Anthology of Writings (from Detroit). Black American Literature Forum 20, 3 (1986) 317-26. “The Amazing Road,” A.M. Elmessiri, The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, MERIP Reports 131 (1985) 26-28. “Short Stories in Heinemann’s Arab Authors Series,” Arab Studies Quarterly 2,1 (1980) 101-10. Salma K. Jayyusi. Trends and Movements in Modern Arabic Poetry, Arab Studies Quarterly 2, 4 (1980) 375-84. REVIEWS: Adel Iskander and Hakem Rustom (Eds). Edward Said: a legacy of emancipation and representation and Mohammad R, Salama. Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History. Race and Class 53, 3 (2011) 111-14. Adania Shibli. Touch (Trans. Paula Haydar). Journal of Palestine Studies 40, 3 (2011) 119-20.

Moustafa Bayoumi (Ed). Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict. E3W Review of Books 11 (2011). Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories: Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (The Goldstone Report). Race and Class 52, 3 (2010) 104-7. Ketu Katrak. Politics of the Female Body: Postcolonial Women Writers of the Third World. Modern Philology, February 2010 (3pp). Haifa Zangana. Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London. Trans. Judy Cumberbatch. International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies 3, 3 (2009) 340-43. Francis Nyamjoh. The Travail of Dieudonné and Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamjoh, Inge Brinkman. Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa. Race and Class 51, 3 (2010) 99-101. Carole Boyce Davies. Left of Karl Marx: the political life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. Race and Class 50, 4 (2009) 103-6. Mahmood Mamdani. Scholars in the Marketplace: the dilemmas of neo-liberal reform at Makerere University and Issa G. Shivji. Let the People Speak: Tanzania down the road to neo-liberalism. Race and Class 50, 4 (2009) 110-13. Rita Barnard. Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place. Modern Fiction Studies 54, 4 (2008), 915-8, Henning Mankell. Chronicler of the Winds and Hisham Matar. In the Country of Men. Race and Class 50, 1 (2008). 108-10. Clive Stafford-Smith. Bad Men: Guantánamo Bay and the Secret Prisons. E3W Review of Books, Spring 2008. 24-5. Frank T. Kryza. The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold. The Historian 69, 3 (2007). 515-6. Jean Hatzfeld, Into the Quick of Life: the Rwandan genocide – the survivors speak and A Time for Machetes: The Rwandan genocide – the killers speak. Race and Class 48, 1 (2006), 99-103. Denis Herbstein. White Lies: Canon Collins and the secret war against apartheid and Roger Fieldhouse. Anti-Apartheid: a history of the movement in Britain. Race and Class 47, 3 (2006), 93-8. M.J. Daymond et al (ed). Women Writing Africa; Njabulo Ndebele. The Cry of Winnie Mandela; Miriam Tlali. Between Two Worlds; Amma Kyerewaa. Kimberlite Flame. Race and Class 47, 1 (2005). 100-3 Neil Lazarus (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. Race and Class 46, 4 (2005). 90-3. Horace Engdahl (ed). Witness Literature. World Literature Today (2004), 96. Mark Saunders. Complicities. Research in African Literatures 34, 4 (2003), 181-2 Joe Cleary. Literature, Partition and the Nation-State, Kristen Guest (ed). Eating Their Words, Ann Blake et al (eds). England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth Century Fiction. Race and Class 45, 2 (2003). 93-7. Al Gedicks. Resource Rebels. Race and Class 44,2 (2202), 86-9. Anne-Emmanuelle Berg (ed). Algeria in Others’ Languages. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 3.2 (2002). Elleke Boehmer, Bloodlines; H. Rider Haggard, Diary of an African Journey; Laura Chrisman, Rereading the Imperial Romance. Race and Class 43, 1 (2001) 90-5. Joy James (ed), States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons. Race and Class 43, 4 (2001) 98-102. Jabra I. Jabra. In Search of Walid Masoud. Middle East Journal 55, 2 (2001) 338-9. Neil Lazarus, Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World; Deborah Marsden (ed). Post-colonial literatures; Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900. Race and Class 42, 1 (2000) 83-6.

George Bizos, No One to Blame?; Sindiwe Magona, Mother to Mother. Race and Class 41, 3 (2000) 91-5. Inderpal Grewal, Home and Harem. Passages 1, 1 (1999) 117-9. Matthew Carr, My Father’s House. Race and Class 40, 4 (1999) 91-4. José David Saldívar, Border Matters: Remapping American Culture Studies. Novel 12,1 (1998) 136-7 Jeremy Cronin. Even the Dead: Poems, Parables and a Jeremiad. Race and Class 40,1 (1998) 93-6. Gillian Slovo, Every Secret Thing. Race and Class 39, 2 (1997) 95-8. Kali Tal. Worlds of Hurt. American Literary History (1997) 433-4. Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Men, Women and God(s). Modern Fiction Studies 43, 2 91997) 528-30. Julie Newman, The Ballistic Bard; Rosemary Jolly, Colonization, Violence and Narration in White South African Writing. Novel 30, 2 (1997) 259-61. Kamal Abdel-Malek, Study of the Vernacular Poetry of Ahmad Fu’ad Nigm. Edebiyat (1996)183-7. Salma K. Jayyusi (ed), Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature. Edebiyat (1996) 198-201. Alan M. Wald. Writing from the Left: New Essays on Radical Culture and Politics. Modern Fiction Studies 42, 1 (1996) 219-21. AnnMarie Wolpe, The Long Way Home; Ronnie Kasrils, Armed and Dangerous; Hilda Bernstein (ed), The Rift. Race and Class 37, 3 (1996) 85-9. Kathrin Wagner, Reading Nadine Gordimer, Dominic Head, Nadine Gordimer. Research in African Literatures 26, 4 (1995) 235-8. Hanan el-Shaykh, Beirut Blues. The Nation, (19 June 1995) 894-6. Zayd Mutee’ Dammaj, The Hostage. IJMES 27 (1995) 391-3. Ian Lustick, Unsettled States, Disputed Lands. Middle East Report 194/5 (1995) 59-60. Nikki Keddie and Beth Brown (eds), Women in the Middle East; Arlene Macleod, Accomodating Protest; Bouthaina Shaaban, Both Right and Left-Handed; Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Soul; Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam. Signs (Autumn 1994) 223-8. Patrick McGee. Telling the Other. Novel 77,2 (1994) 201-3. Lisa Lowe. Critical Terrains, MESA Bulletin 27, 1 (1993) 104-5. Fatima Moussa, The Veil and the Male Elite; Hisham Sharabi (ed), Theory, Politics and the Arab World; C.T. Hohanty, A. Russo, L. Torres (eds), Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism. Middle East Report 183 (1993) 43-5. John Fialka, Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War; John MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War; Jacqueline Sharkey, Under Fire: US Military Restrictions on the Media from Grenada to the Persian Gulf. Middle East Report 180 (1993) 45-6. Joseph Doherty, Standing Proud. Race and Class 34, 3 (1993) 106-7. H Block: A Selection of Poetry; Voices Against Oppression, Eiri na Gealai; Joseph Doherty, Standing Proud. The Connacht Tribune 2 October 1992. Americo Paredes, George Washington Gomez; Gerald Vizenor, The Heirs of Columbus. Race and Class 33,4 (1992), 102-4. Ghassan Kanafani, All That’s Left to You. MESA Bulletin 25, 2 (1991) 247-9.

Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur (eds), Hauling Up the Morning. Race and Class 33.2 (1991) 105-8. Claribel Alegria and Darwin J. Flakoll. Ashes of Izalco; Gioconda Belli, La mujer habitada. Race and Class 32, 1 (1990). Marwan Hassan, The Confusion of Stones; Saad Elkhadem, The Ulysses Trilogy. American Book Review 12, 2 (1990). Nidia Diaz, Nunca Estuve Sola, Race and Class 31, 3 (1990) 107-9. Henry Louis Gates Jr, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. Research in African Literatures 20, 4 (1989) 575-8. Emily Nasrallah, Flight Against Time; Hala Deeb Jabbour, A Woman of Nazareth; Etel Adnan, The Arab Apocalypse. American Book Review 11, 2 (1989). Stephen Clingman, History from the Inside: The Novels of Nadine Gordimer. Research in African Literatures 19, 2 (1988) 255-8. Miriam Cooke, War’s Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War. Middle East Report 168 (1991). Tahar Ben Jelloun, The Sand Child. New York Times Book Review, 25 October 1987. Rana Kabbani, Europe’s Myths of Orient. AMEWS 1, 3 (1986). Inea Bushnaq (ed), Arab Folktales. New York Times Book Review, 6 April 1986. Khalil Hawi, Naked in Exile (The Threshing Floors of Hunger). Middle East Repors 142 (1986), Khalid Sulaiman, Palestine and Modern Arab Poetry. Race and Class 27, 3 (1986). Eric Gould (ed), The Sin of the Book: Edmond Jabes. New York Times Book Review 14 April 1985. CHOICE Reviews: (2012) Burying the beloved: marriage realism, and reform in modern Iran; Immigrant Narratives: orientalism and cultural translation in Arab American and Arab British literature; Arab-American Women’s Writing and Performance: Orientalism, Race and the Idea of ‘The Arabian Nights’; (2011) Arabic Literature: Postmodern Perspectives; (2010) Hardship and deliverance in the Islamic tradition: theology and spirituality in the works of al-Tanukhi; (2009) My happiness bears no relation to happiness: a poet’s life in the Palestinian century; Arab women writers: a critical reference guide; An Anthology of Ismaili Literature; (2008) Naguib Mahfouz: His Life and Times; (2006) The rhetoric of violence: Arab-Jewish encounters in contemporary Palestinian literature and film (2005) Opening the Gates: Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing; A Postmodern Nationalist: Mia Couto, (2004) The Arab Avant-Garde, Seen and Heard: A Centiry of Arab Women In Literature and Culture, (2003) Fatima: a novel of Arabia, Fantastic Metamorphoses,, Constructing Lebanon. (2002) Algeria in others’ tongues; They Die Strangers; The Ordeal of the African Writer; (2001) African Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Voices; African Novels in the Classroom; Going Global; Hayati, My Life: A Novel; An Introduction to Arabic Literature; (2000) Imagining Insiders: Africa and the Question of Belonging; Achebe, Head, Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa; Cultural Representation in Historical Resistance in Greek Guerrilla Theatre; Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture; Ngugi wa Thiong’o; (1999) In the Language of Walter Benjamin; Nuruddin Farah; Scattered Like Seeds: A Novel; (1998) In the Tavern of Life and other stories; (1997) Short Fiction: A Critical Companion; The Past and the Punishments; The Marabout and the Muse; The Worldwide Church of the Handicapped; Interventions: Feminist Dialogues; (1996) Economies of Change; Ocean of Words: Army Stories; Selected Poems of Andree Chedid; Modern Arabic Drama: An Anthology; Ismailia Eclipse: poems; Understanding Oral Literature; Encountering Oral Literature; (1995) American Women Short Story Writers; Giving Voice to Stones; Jamaica Kincaid; The Desert Is My Oasis: Poems; (1994) Transfigurations of the Maghreb; Colonialism and Gender Relations; (1993) The Adulteress’s Child; (1992) Arabesque; (1991) Faces of Islam in African Literature; Sexuality and War; Naguib Mahfouz’s Egypt; (1990) The Maze of Justice; A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry; (1988) War’s Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War; Modern Arab Poetry: An Anthology; (1987) Modern Arabic Literature, Politics and Theory; Two Women in One; (1986) Arab Folktales; Tigers on the Tenth Day and Other Stories; (1985) Reading Frames in Modern Fiction; The Only Teller: Readings in the Monologue Novel; The Poetics of Protest: Literary Form and Political Implication in the Victim-of-Society Novel; Yahya Haqqi: The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual. TRANSLATIONS: BOOKS: Ghassan Kanafani. Palestine’s Children. Heinemann/Three Continents Press, 1984. Reprinted [with Karen Riley as co-translator and new introduction] by Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.

Jacques Derrida. Spurs. University of Chicago Press, 1979. ARTICLES AND STORIES: “In the Golden Chariot Things Will Be better,” Selection from a novel by Salwa Bakr, with Introduction. boundary 2 19, 2 (1992), 150-62. Reprinted in Feminism and Postmodernism. Edited by Margaret Ferguson and Jennifer Wicke. Duke University Press, 1994. “Constructions of the Intifada,” Essays by Elias Khoury and Yusuf Mustafa, With Introduction. Polygraph 4 (1990), 35-53. Ghassan Kanafani. “Thoughts on Change and the ‘Blind Language’,” With Nejd Yeziji. With Introduction. ALIF 10 (1990). Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. “The Echo of the Subject,” Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics. Edited by Christopher Fynsk. Harvard University Press, 1989. 139-207. “Oil and Culture: Interviews with Gulf Writers,” With Introduction. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 7,4 (1987). With Muhammad Shoukany. 50-60. “Introduction,” Special Issue of Fusul on Literature and Ideology, 3 (1985). Zakariyya Tamer, “The Day That Genghis Khan Got Angry,” Flights of Fantasy. Edited by Ceza Kassem Draz and Malek Hashem. Cairo: Dar Elias, 1984. “Jabra Jabra’s Interpoetics: An Interview with Jabra Ibrahim Jabra,” ALIF 1 (1980). With Alaa Elgibali. Jacques Derrida, “Becoming Woman,” Semiotext(e) 9, 1 (1978). [Excerpts of Spurs]. Jean-Claude Bonne, “Freud’s Analysis of Leonardo da Vinci,” Arts Magazine 6-7 (1973). INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS: “From Flying Carpets to No-Fly Zones: Libya’s Elusive Revolution/s, According to Ruth First, Hisham Matar – and the ICC.” CODESRIA, Rabat, Morocco. December 2011. “Public Spheres, Personal Papers, Pedagogical Practices: Ruth First to/from Dar es Salaam and Maputo.” CODESRIA, Yaoundé, Cameroon. December 2008. “Child and/or Soldier: Two Stories Toward a Global Perspective on the Palestinian Struggle,” Panel on Global Perspectives on the Palestinian Struggle,” MESA, Washington DC, November 2008. “Tortured Thoughts: From Marshall Square to Guantánamo Bay,” Keynote Address, International Auto/Biography Association, Honolulu, Hawai’i, June 2008. “Tortured Thoughts,” Seminar on A Global Aesthetics of Pain: Prison Arrivals and Departures, ACLA, Long Beach, CA, April 2008. “Nelio and Suleiman as Tattle-Tales: Literature, Human Rights, Storytelling,” International Symposium on Comparative Literature and Linguistics, Cairo University, April 2007. “Bandung at 50: from non-alignment to realignment,” MESA, Washington DC, November 2005. Chair. Panel on “The Legacy of Travelers at Home and Abroad, VISAWUS (Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States,” Austin, TX, October 2003. “Red Lines and Green Books: Ruth First in Libya,” Literature of Region and Nation Association. Durban, South Africa. August 2002. “Looked Class, Talked Red,” ARCSA, Lesotho, July 2002.

Chair, Panel on “Race, Place and Social Movements.” American Studies Association, Washington DC, November 2001. Chair, Panel on “Modernism and Apartheid: The Writer as Public Intellectual in South Africa.” Modernist Studies Association, Houston TX, October 2001. “Resistance Literature Revisited.” MLA, December 1998. “Sappers in the Stacks,” MELUS, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1997. “Ruth First and the Politics of Dissent,” AUETSA, University of the Western Cape, June-July 1996. Chair, Panel on “Migratory Intellectuals, Migratory Workers in an Age of Global Restructuring,” MLA, December 1995. “Streets and Strategies,” Panel on Affirmative Action and Multiculturalism, American Studies Association, November 1993. “States and Status: The Cultural Politics of Partition,” MLA, December 1992. Chair, Workshop /Forum on Cultural Studies and the Boundaries of the Discipline, MLA, December 1992. Discussant, Panel on Eurocentrism and the Tropes of Identity, Middle East Studies Association, November 1991. “Film Strips and Strip Searching,” Popular Culture Association, March 1991. “Writing Gender in Resistance: Jean Genet and Leila Khaled,” MLA, December 1990. Chair, Workshop III: Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, MLA, December 1990. Chair, Panel on The Politics of Language and Literature, Middle East Studies Association, November 1990. “Palestine,” MLG Session on Liberation Struggles, MLA December 1989. “Theorizing Resistance: Ghassan Kanafani, Roque Dalton, Ruth First,” MLA, December 1989. “Palestinian Political Detainees,” Special Session on Arab Others, Arab Selves and Ourselves, Middle East Studies Association, November 1988. Moderator, Panel on The Politics of Feminism, South Central MLA, October 1988. “The Resistance in Prison: Palestinian Women Political Detainees,” MLG Session on The Politics of Imperialism and Women’s Resistance in the Third World, MLA, December 1987. “Immigration, Deportation, Prison and Exile: Border Problems in Chicana and Third World Women’s Writing,” Panel on The Politics of Chicana Feminisms, MLA, December 1987. “Third World Feminism,” Keynote Address to Women’s Caucus, South Central MLA, October 1987. “Literature in the City: Cairo, Beirut, Jerusalem,” Middle East Studies Association, November 1986. Convener, Society for Critical Exchange Sessions on Theory and Strategy in the Third World, MLA, December 1986. “From Deconstruction to Decolonization: The Political Agenda of Translation,” Panel on Theories of Translation, MLA, December 1985. “Women, Liberation and Autobiography,” Panel on Women’s Autobiography, MLA, December 1985. “Naturalization of Cultural Relations and the Regional Distribution of Power,” Forum on Representations of Colonization, MLA, December 1984.

“Arab Children’s Literature,” North East MLA, March 1984. “Literary Theory and Resistance Literature, Southern Comparative Literature Association, 1984. “Cairo Curiosities,” Panel on Orientalism, MLA, December 1981. INVITED LECTURES: “Biographical Fallacies,” Roundtable to Launch If We Must Die by Aimé Ellis. Michigan State University, October 2011. “Extraordinary Renditions,” Department of Criminology, University of Hull, June 2010 “Personal Papers, Public Lives: Towards a Bio-Bibliography of South African Activist Ruth First,” Institute of Gender Studies, University of Arkansas, March 2010. “From Truth Commissions to Criminal Prosecution: Death of the Maiden and Exorcising Terrorism,” Roundtable on the Work of Ariel Dorfman. Duke University, January 2010. “Child and/or Soldier: From Safad to Sierra Leone to Guantánamo,” York University (UK), March 2009. “Tortured Thoughts,” Women, Community and Prison Seminar, University of Warwick (UK), May 2008. Child and/or Soldier,” Rethinking Identities and Cultures Series, University of Warwick (UK), May 2008. “Education, Politics, Law: Ruth First in Tanzania and Mozambique,” African Gender Studies and Its Futures, IGWS Workshop, American University in Cairo, October 2007. “Resistance Literature Revisited: From Basra to Guantánamo,” Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture, American University in Cairo, November 2006. (Selections published in Al-Ahram Weekly, November 2006.) “Ruth First and Olive Schreiner,” Mellon History Workshop, Stanford University, April 2003. “Ruth and Rosa: Two Women and a Party,” English Seminar, University of Natal, Durban. October 2002. “Sunset Clauses: Political Biography and the Next Generation,” English Seminar, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, October 2002. “Looked Class, Talked Red,” University of Rochester, February 2002. “What Was She Doing There? Ruth First at the TRC,” SUNY Albany, February 2001. “Red Lines and Green Books: A South African Revolutionary in Libya,” Dartmouth, April 2000/UC Santa Barbara, February 2001. “Truth and Townships,” African Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 1999/ University of Mineapolis, April 1999. “Archives of Empire,” History of the Book Series, University of Pennsylvania, April 1999. “Resistance Literature,” Institute for Commonwealth Studies, London, March 1999. “Redlined Africa,” University of Cape Town, October 1998. “Ruth First,” University of Natal, Durban, September 1998. “Imperial Archives,” University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, September 1998. “Vilification, Deportation, Assassination: or what happens to women who challenge Empire,” Intercollegiate Center for Women’s Studies, The Claremont Colleges, March 1998. “Cultural Narratives in Struggle,” Bowling Green State University, April 1997. “Sappers in the Stacks,” UC San Diego, February 1997.

“Colonial Cohtexts, Contemporary Contests,” Swarthmore College, October 1996. “From Civilizing Mission to Humanitarian Intervention,” Indiana University, February 1996. “Women and Resistance Literature,” Bir Zeit University, December 1994. “Ruth First: Writer, Martyr, Revolutionary,” University of the Witwatersrand/University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, August 1994. “New Geographies of Struggle,” University of North Dakota, April 1994 and Illinois Wesleyan University, April 1994. “’Ordinary Decent Criminals’”, MacArthur Program, University of Minnesota, January 1994. “The Crying Game and Hostage Taking,” University of Hawai’i, October 1993. “Speaking from the Dock,” University of Minnesota, May 1993. “Negotiating Treaties,” Grinnell College, February 1993 “Gender Issues in Postcolonial Discourse,” American University in Cairo, January 1993. “On Trial, USA,” Queen’s University, Belfast, April 1992. “From the Docks to the H Blocks: Protesting Prison in Ireland,” MPhil Seminar in Irish Studies, University College Galway, March 1992. “National Identity and the Palestinian Novel,” Notre Dame University, September 1991. “Writers, Martyrs, Revolutionaries,” Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, September 1991. “Women and Class in the Arab World,” Mellon Lecture Series, Occidental College, May 1991. “Women and Resistance in Northern Ireland,” English Graduate Student Lecture Series, Johns Hopkins University, February 1991. “Palestinian Prison Writing,” Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, November 1990. “Culture Against the Occupation,” Wesleyan University, February 1990 and University of Chicago, April 1990. Panel on “Israel and South Africa: Two Faces of One Coin,” Texas Southern University, April 1990. “Women, Writing, and Political Detention,” Southern Methodist University, April 1989 and Women’s Studies Lectures Series, University of Miami, November 1988. “Secular vs Sectarian: Egyptian Women Political Detainees,” Mellon Lecture Series, Occidental College, November 1988. “Writers and Assassination,” University of Iowa, April 1988 and University of Oregon, May 1988. “From the Third World Women’s Prison,” Oregon State University, May 1988 and Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, February 1988. “Prison Literature and Changes in Moral Awareness,” Center for Cultural Studies, Rice University, January 1988. “Women and Resistance: Constructions of Gender, Race and Ethnicity,” Pembroke Center, Brown University, December 1987. “Palestinian Political Detainees,” National Lawyers Guild, Austin, TX, August 1987. “Third World Theory and the Challenge to Cultural Dependency,” Carnegie Mellon University, April 1987.

“North African Women: Three Reviews,” UC Los Angeles, February 1987. “Resistance Poetry,” University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February 1986. “Prison Memoirs of Political Detainees,” Western Societies Program, Cornell University, February 1986. “Cultural Geography of the City,” City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, February 1986. “Third World Women’s Diaries of Resistance,” Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Decemmber 1985. “English Literature and the Arab World,” East Jerusalem College for Women, November 1984. “Resistance Literature,” Albion College, March 1984. “Camus and Francophone Literature of North Africa,” American University of Beirut, May 1983. “Herodotus’s Histories of Egypt,” American University in Cairo, October 1980. “Sentimental Orientalism,” Wesleyan University, April 1980. “Al-Hakim’s Last Laugh: Nerval’s Journey to the Orient,” Wesleyan University, December 1979. COLLOQUIUM AND CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: “Libya at the ICC: Along with the Arab League, the African Union and NATO,” Keynote presentation to TOFAC Conference on Cultures, Identities, Nationalities, and Modernities in the Africa and the African Diaspora,” Lagos, Nigeria, July 2012. “’Today Is Human Rights Day’: Ruth First and the Courts of World Opinion.” A Revolutionary Life: Ruth First 1925-1982. Senate House, University of London, June 2012. “Literary Warrants: Palestine, Chile, Libya.” Humanities and Human Rights, American University in Beirut, May 2012. “Flying Carpets and No-Fly Zones,” Arab Intellectual Thought and the Changing Role of the Literati Conference. Columbia University, May 2011. “From Non-Alignment to Universal Jurisdiction: Human Rights in the ‘Spirit of Bandung’”, Keynote Address, The Spirit of Bandung: Culture and Revolution in the Age of NAM, Rutgers University New Brunswick, April 2011. “Ruth First’s ‘Cross-Cultural Prison Narrative,’:” Engendering Justice Symposium. Montclair State University, April 2011. “’Extraordinary Renditions’: Guantánamo in Writing,” Postcolonial Empires: Writing in Resistance Conference. Cambridge University (UK), July 2009. “Mahmoud Darwish and the Question of Palestine,” Poetry and Politics: In Memoriam Mahmoud Darwish Conference. York University (UK), March 2009. “Writing, Poetics and Politics,” Prison: Literature and Cultural Politics in the Middle East Conference, New York Univeraity/The New School, March 2009. “Egypt: A Country Report,” 1968: Reports from Africa Panel.1968: A Global Perspective Conference. University of Texas at Austin, October 2008. Chair. “War and Conflict in Art and Literary Genres,” Wars and Conflicts in Africa Conference. University of Texas at Austin, March 2008. “Child and/or Soldier: Two Stories in the Struggle for Comparative Literature,” Crossing the Literary Divide: English-Arabic Comparative Literature.. Qatar University/Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar, March 2008.

“Tortured Thoughts: the example set by Ruth First from her interrogation in 1963 to her assassination in 1982,” Torture and the Future Workshop, University of California at Santa Barbara, May 2007. “Crossed Roads, Crossing Swords: A Tribute to Archie Mafeje,” Archie Mafeje Memorial, American University in Cairo, May 2007. “Ruth First in Prison,” Gender, Human Rights and Empire Workshorp, Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, American University in Cairo, May 2007. Chair. “Women and Urbanization” panel. Arab Families Working Group, Cairo, March 2007. Chair. “Literary Versions” panel, Dissent in America Conference, American University in Cairo, October 2007. Chair, “Literature and the Politics of Displacement” panel. Movements, Migrations, and Displacements in Africa Conference. UT Austin, March 2006. “The Imperial Closet: Gordon, MacDonald, Casement,” with Neville Hoad and John Thomas, British Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, October 2005. “No Short Cuts,” African Health and Illness Conference. University of Texas at Austin, March 2005. “Post Independence Memoir,” African Studies Association. New Orleans, November 2004. “Sunset Clauses: Post-Independence African Memoirs,” Looking at South Africa 10 Years On,” Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, September 2004. “On Her Heels, On Her Side: Ruth First in South West Africa,” Decontaminating the Namibian Past Conference, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, August 2004. Chair. “Written Literature: Soyinka and Sofola,” Africa/Yoruba Conference, University of Texas at Austin, March 2004. “From Haifa to Camden Town…and back again: the Cases of Ruth First and Ghassan Kanafani,” Between the Archival Forest and the Anecdotal Trees: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Palestinian Social History. Birzeit University, November 2003. “Durban Works,” African Urbanization Conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX, March 2003. “Not ‘An Account Devoted Exclusively to Fact’”, Nigeria in the Twentieth Century Conference, University of Texas, Austin TX March 2002. “Hybrid Diamonds,” Conference on Hybridity, University of Turin, Italy, June 2001. “’Good Men in Africa’: From Missionaries to Mercenaries,” Pathways to Africa Conference, University of Texas at Austinl, March 2001. “Looked Class, Talked Red: Ruth First’s Life and Its Histories,” Meridians Conference, Smith College, March 2001. “Opposition in Exile: Ruth First and the Anti-Apartheid Movement,” Center for the Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder, November 2000. “From Prison to Pretoria: Ruth First’s at the TRC,” The Prison and the University Workshop, University of Colorado at Boulder, November 2000. “Futures of Marxist Literary Studies,” Seeds of Liberation Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, October 2000. “Diamonds Are a Guerrilla’s Best Friend,” Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 2000. “Rosa and Ruth/Terror and Truth,” Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 2000.

“Women as Legitimate Targets,” Culture of Political Transtion Conference, University of London, September 2001. “What Was She Doing There?” Women’s History Week, UT San Antonio, March 2000. “About Face: Considerations of Turns of the Century,” World 2000 Conference, Austin, TX February 2000. “Ruth First After Apartheid” and “Mine Magnates and Mine Snakes,” Middfest International, Middletown, Ohio, October 1999. “How Far Will 10,000 Pounds Go?: Parnell’s Home Rule and Rhodes’s Federation,” Colonialism Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, June 1999. “Writers and Resistance,” Brecht Forum, NYC, May 1999. “Imperialism and Orientalism,” Keynote Address. Graduate Student Conference, University of Montana, March 1999. “Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun,” To/From Conference and Exhibit, Witte de Wit Institute, Rotterdam, February 1999. “Imperial Detritus,” Keynote Lecture. Graduate Student Conference in Romance Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota, April 1997. “Writers Don’t Just Die, Sometimes They Get Killed,” Plenary Session, French Feminisms Conference, Texas Tech, January-February 1997. “’Structurally Adjusted Amnesia’”, Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December 1996. “C.L.R. James’s Marxism,” Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December 1996. “Peace Processes,” After Colonialism Conference, Columbia University, October 1996. “Penalties of Death, Commissions of Truth,” Prison and Community Conference, George Mason University, March 1996. “The Penalties of Death: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal,” Summer Institute for Culture, Pittsburgh, June 1995 and Culture and Colonialism Conference, University College Galway, June 1995. “From the ‘Civilizing Mission’ to ‘Humanitarian Intervention’”, Text and Nation Conference, Georgetown University, April 1995. “After the Fact: Ruth First and the Politics of Dissent in South Africa,” Women, Violence, Sexuality, University of Pennsylvania, March 1995; Postcolonial Perspectives, University of California at Irvine and UCLA, April 1995. “Partition Plots,” Graduate Conference in Irish Studies, UT Austin, March 1994. “Political Women,” SIROW Conference on Women, the Middle East and the Undergraduate Curriculum, University of Arizona, March 1994. “Ulysses: A Case For or Against European Union?” Political Geographies Conference, Rutgers University, February 1994. “Hostage Taking,” Keynote Address, Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, January 1994. “Hosts and Hostages,” Fixation and Discourse Conference, University of California at Irvine, June 1993. “Negotiations and Treaties,” Nationalism and Ethnicity of the Humanities Conference, Scripps College, April 1993. “Maastricht and NAFTA: Treaties and Hemispheric Shifts,” Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, November 1992.

“Mast Wrecked: 1992, Ireland and Europe,” Reclaiming New Worlds Conference, University of Texas at Austin, October 1992. “Occupied Territories,” Keynote Address, Gender and Colonialism Conference, University College Galway, may 1992. “Political Status: Writing Gender in Resistance,” Discourse and Palestine Conference, University of Amsterdam, April 1992. “The Golden Chariot Doesn’t Ascend to the Heavens,” Women in the Middle East, University of Leiden, April 1992. “The Writing on the Wall,” Conference on Art as Theory: Theory and Art, University of Ottawa, November-December 1991. “Partition: Colonialism and Culture,” Colloquium on Dependency and Autonomy, Humanities Research Center, University of California at Irvine, November 1991. “Safe Houses, Safe Havens, and the Tyranny of Home,” Traveling Theory Conference, London, Ontario, September 1991. “Women Rising to Resolve Conflict,” National Conference on Peace and Conflict Resolution, Charlotte, NC, June 1991. “’Linkages’: Gramsci and the Gulf,” International Gramsci Society Panel, Socialist Scholars Conference, April 1991. “Decolonizing the University,” Conference on Comparative Literature: The State of the Discipline, Bryn Mawr, February 1991. “Calls, Critiques and Manifestos from the Intifada,” Conference on Politics and Modern Arabic Literatue, Yale University, February 1991. “Reconstructing Resistance: Peasant, Proletarian and Intellectual,” Workshop on Literature and Imperialism, Davis Center, Princeton University, November 1990. “Writing Human Rights,” Conference on World Writing and Politics at the End of the Century,” University of California at San Diego, October 1990. “Beyond the Pale: Hunger Strikes and Strip Searching in Northern Ireland,” Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, August 1990. “Palestine Update,” National Lawyers Guild Annual Convention, Austin TX, June 1990. Chair, Panel on Education Under Occupation,” Palestine Academic Freedom Network Conference, Washington DC, June 1990 (Taped and aired by C-SPAN). Workshop on Academic Delegations, Union of Palestinian Women’s Associations, Cleveland, May 1990. Consultant, Counterterror, Video Series produced by Annie Goldson and Chris Bratton, 1990.. “Prison Culture: Countering the Occupation,” MERIP Session on Palestine, Marxism Now Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, December 1909. “Political Detention: Countering the University,” Conference on The Humanities as Social Technology, Ohio State University, October 1989. “Writers and Assassination,” Institute on Culture and Society, Pittsburgh, June 1989. “Palestinian Political Prisoners and the Intifada,” Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 1989. “Egyptian Women in Political Detention,” Conference on The Politics of Feminism: New Perspectives on the Middle East,” Columbia University, March 1989.

“Women and Resistance,” Pembroke Center Roundtable on Resistance and Revolution, Brown University, March 1989. “History and Literature: Text and Context,” Plenary Panel Speaker, Conference on Third World, Revolution, Diaspora, Michigan State University, November 1988. “Women and Prison,” Institute on Culture and Society, Pittsburgh, June 1988. “Writers and Assassination,” Conference on Pan-Africanism, Intercollegiate Center for Black Studies, Claremont College, April 1988. “Strategies of Resistance,” Conference on Civilization and Its Others: Formulations of Difference, University of Wisconsin at Madison, April 1988. “Goha’s Nail: The Arab Challenge to Cultural Dependency,” Conference on The Challenge of Third World Culture, Duke University, September 1986. “Egyptian Intellectuals and the Debate on the ‘Normalization’ of Cultural Relations,” Institute on Culture and Society, Pittsburgh, June 1986. “After Colonialism Literature,” Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 1986. Commentator, Panel on Popular Culture in the Muslim Context. Conference on Popular Music in the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia, Cornell University, April 1986. “Memory and the Historical Record: Beirut 1982,” Nation and Narration Conference, Cornell University, April 1986. Commentator, Panel on Feminism and Cross-Cultural Inquiry, Feminism Theory Politics Conference, Pembroke Center, Brown University, March 1985. “History and Endings: Ganssan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun and Tawfiq Salih’s The Duped,” Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, September 1983. “Comparing Stories: Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘Death of Bed No. 12 and Sherwood Anderson’s ‘Death in the Woods’”, Conference on Problems of Teaching English Language and Literature in Arab Universities, University of Jordan, April 1982. MISCELLANEOUS/UNIVERSITY: “Public Spheres, Personal Papers, Pedagogical Practices: Ruth First in Dar es Salaam and Maputo,” CAAAS African Studies Workshop, November 2009. A Long Way Gone Discussion. Mayor’s Book Club, Carver Library, Austin, TX, April 2008. Co-ordinator: Clarksville Bookworms. Neighborhood Reading Group 2003 – 2006 Holes Library Discussion. Mayor’s Book Club. Austin, TX, September 2003. “Commando,” Boer War Panel, British Studies Seminar, September 1999. “Kipling’s South Africa,” Discussant, British Studies Seminar, May 2006. “Longhorn Profile,” KUT, July 1999. “A Preliminary Report on the Historic Significance of the House at 1822 West 10th Street,” With Chip and Tracy Orr, on behalf of the Clarksville Community Development Corporation, presented to the Historic Landmark Commission (City of Austin), August 1999. Presentations to National Lawyers Guild and Unitarian Church on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, February-March 1999 “Where In the World Is Africa?” CAAAS Conference, February 1998.

Respondant to Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professors Lecture Series, December 1997. “Using the Web for Collaborative Learning among Students and Faculty,” ACITS and CIT Faculty Workshops, August 1997. “E314L: Literary Contests and Contexts,” CWRL Colloquium, April 1997. “Cutting Edge or Planned Obsolescence: Teaching on the Edge of the Electronic Frontier,” with Chris Maziar, Women’s Studies Workshop, September 1996. “British Imperial Designs in 19th Century India,” with Mia Carter, South Asian Studies Seminar, October 1996. “The Imperial Archive,” with Mia Carter, UT English Graduate Student Colloquium, February 1996. Palestine Solidarity Committee, National Advisory Board, 1990-4 Humanities Adviser, Third Wave Women’s Film Festival, Austin TX 1993-4. “Maastricht,” Panel Discussion for The Next 200 Years, National Public Radio, April 1993. Interview, FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavor), Austin/Costa Rica, July 1991. Guest Speaker on the Gulf Crisis, KLBJ, 27 January 1991. Delegation Coordinator, Union of Palestinian Women’s Associations Delegation of uS Academic Women to the Occupied Territories, March 1990 “The Gulf Crisis,” Alternative Views, ACTV, November 1990. Guest Interviewer with Edward Said, Alternative Views, ACTV, September 1990. Radio Interview, “Voice of Palestine,” Public Radio Program, Vancouver, July 1990. Guest Interviewer, Rabab Hadi (Palestine) and Edna Homa Hunt (Israel), Alternative Views, ACTV, October 1989. Volunteer Researcher, Political Asylum Project of Austin, Fall 1989. Radio Interview, “Naguib Manfouz and the Nobel Prize,” WKAR, East Lansing MI, November 1989. Radio Interview, “Salman Rushdie,” KLBJ, Austin TX, February 1989. Concerned Academics for Peace and Justice in the Middle East 1985-6. TEACHING: Graduate: E397 variants: Imperialism and Orientalism Literature and Human Rights The Scramble for Africa The Great Game Undergraduate: E328: The Nineteenth Century English Novel E356/EUS361: The European Novel E360: Literature and Social Justice UT SERVICE: Advising/Counseling/Other Student Service: Assistant Instructor Supervisor, 1986-92. Administrative: English Department:

Executive Committee 1988-9, 1997-8, 2009-10, 2010-12 English Honors Committee 2009-12 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2007-10 Internal Review Committee 2005-6 Continuing Fellowship Committee 2003-4 Computer Use Committee, 1993 – 2002 (Chair, 1995-6) Sophomore Literature Committee, 1996-8. Minority Liaison Officer, 1989-91. Graduate Program Committee, 1987-8, 1996-7, 1999-2000 Qualifying Exam Committee, 1968-8, 1990-91, Fall 1991, Fall 1992, 1999-2000, 2000-1, 2003-6 Graduate Studies Committee, 1986 - Graduate Admissions Committee, 1997-8 Sophomore Policy Committee, 1986-7 Recruitment ETW Sub-Committee, 2000-1 Chair, ETW Graduate Specialization 1988 - Center/Department for Middle Eastern Studies: Curriculum Committee, 1987-90, 1995-6 Graduate Studies Committee, 1989 – Publications Committee, 1993 – 98, 2005-12 Executive Committee 2007-8, 2008-9 Program in Comparative Literature: Continuing Fellowship Committee 2003-4 Graduate Adviser, 1987-1989 Steering Committee, 1993-8 Minority Liaison Officer, Fall 1991, 1992-3 Qualifying Committee, 1989-91, 1992-3, Fall 1993 Admissions Committee, 1987-9, 1994-6 Graduate Studies Committee, 1986 – Other Affiliations: Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, South Asia Institute, Center/Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Program in Comparative Literature, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (UT Law School – interim director, Fall 2009, Steering Committee 2005-12) University: Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Liberal Arts 2003-5 (representing DMES) Ward Award Committee 2001-3, 2003-4 Faculty Council 1999-2003 (Executive Committee 1999-2000) Educational Policy Committee 1999-2000 Library Committee, 2000-1 Faculty Senate/University Council 1990-2, 1993-5 Grievance Committee, 1994-6, 1996-8 Faculty Senate Committee on Multicultural Education 1990-1 Committee on Academic Freedom, 1998-90 Awards: Outstanding Graduate Teacher 1998 Award from ITAC: First Honorable Mention for “Literary Contests and Contexts.” With Bret Benjamin and Mary Harvan PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Modern Language Association (MLA Prize for Independent Scholars Committee 2010-12, Elections Committee 2003-5, elected member of Delegate Assembly 1990-2; elected member, executive committee of the Division on Sociological Approaches to Literature 1991-5) Middle East Studies Association (elected member, Nominating Committee 1990) 1985-95, 2005-6 Society for Critical Exchange, Board of Directors 1987-90 North East Modern Language Association/Modern African Literature Section, Secretary 1984-5/ Chair 1985-6 EDITORIAL BOARDS: Editorial Working Committee. Race and Class (London)

Advisory Board. Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Ed. M. Keith Booker. Greenwood Publishers Editorial Board, Current Writing (South Africa) Editorial Board, Comparative Literature Editorial Committee, Middle East Report Board (1986-97) Advisory Editor, News from Within (Israel) Advisory Editor, Modern Fiction Studies Editorial Advisor, ALIF: Journal of Comparative Poetics (Egypt) Advisory Editor, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies (1995-2003) Contributing Editor, Seneca Review 1984-96 Consulting Editor, Emergent Literatures: A Series, University of Minnesota Press (1986-90)