Lecture on Arab-American literature

The Modern Languages Lecture Series a lecture by Professor Carol Fadda-Conrey, Syracuse University: "Constructing Arab and Muslim Identities in the US: Beyond Sept. 11 and the Rhetoric of Violence." The lecture will take place on Monday, April 13, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. in DIF 009. Prof. Fadda-Conrey will discuss some of the major arguments and topics she addresses in her recent book Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging (NYU Press 2014). In her book, she analyzes a wide array of Arab American literary and visual texts, placing them within a transnational framework of study. Prof. Fadda-Conrey will also present on her more recent scholarship that investigates cross-racial alliances within the US as well as articulations of transnational solidarities between the US and the Arab world.