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Najat Rahman

Professeure titulaire

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, room C8112

514 343-6111 #0840

najat.rahman@umontreal.ca

Profile

Biography

I earned my PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the Department of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal, I was a Fulbright Scholar in Lebanon and taught at James Madison University. My research work concerns "stateless literature," literature haunted by articulations/disarticulations of "home." This literature involves reflections on plurilingualism, exile, cultural heritage, literary form, literary condition, the politics of belonging, and belonging in a context of diaspora and perpetual displacement. Recently I have been focusing on the affective process of grieving and forms of humour in response to collective experiences of loss and violence.

Affiliations and responsabilities

Research affiliations

Research units

Membre

Teaching and supervision

Teaching

Courses taught (current session only)

Programs

Student supervision

Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)

2021

Twenty-First-Century Arab-Shakespeare encounters : adaptation, conflict, conversion, and revolution

Graduate : Hannachi, Madiha
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
2017

Figures de la marginalité dans trois romans de femmes : Égypte/Maghreb

Graduate : Bejaoui, Rim
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
2007

Kateb Yacine, ou, le monde théâtralisé

Graduate : Bejaoui, Rim
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.

Projects

Research projects

2024 - 2027

Sound & the Fashioning of Home or the Carceral: Affect, Poetics, Ethics, Politics

Lead researcher : Najat Rahman
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PV153480-Subventions de développement Savoir
2015 - 2019

Out of Place: Droit, Littérature et Migration

Lead researcher : Simon Harel
Co-researchers : Najat Rahman , François Crépeau , Idil Atak
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir
2015 - 2016

FGR-CRSH 2015-2016

Lead researcher : Najat Rahman
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-FGR – Subvention de recherche institutionnelle
2012 - 2015

AN ENOUNTER WITH THE VOID ? HUMOR AND CONTEMPORARY ARABIC LITERATURE

Lead researcher : Najat Rahman
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PV153480-Subventions de développement Savoir

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

Livres

  • In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists after Darwish. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015. "Director's Choice for Fall 2015."
  • Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2014.  (Co-direction avec Gayatri Devi)
  • Mahmoud Darwish, Exile’s Poet: Critical Essays. Northampton, MA: Interlink Press, 2008. (Co-direction avec Hala Nassar)
  • Literary Disinheritance: The Writing of Home in the Work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 

Communications

Disciplines

  • Literary Studies

Areas of expertise

  • Plurilingual Arabic Literature
  • Exil
  • Poetry
  • Aesthetics and Politics
  • Diaspora
  • Gender studies
  • Palestinian Literature
  • Palestinian Cinéma
  • Palestinian Visual arts
  • Postcolonialism Compared
  • Arab world
  • Middle East