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is currently Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, where she was also a resident fellow at the University’s Institute for Advanced Study during the spring of 2006. For her doctoral dissertation, Disarming Words: Reading (Post)Colonial Egypt’s Double Bond to Europe, which she completed at the University of California, Berkeley, she received the 2005 Charles Bernheimer Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association for the best U.S. dissertation in the field. She is the author of numerous scholarly publications, among these Reversing the Sentence of Impossible Nostalgia: The Poetics of Postcolonial Migration in Sakinna Boukhedenna and Agha Shahid Ali, in Comparative Literature Studies 40.2 (2003) and essays on Rifa’a al-Tahtawi and Naguib Mahfouz.