Biosketch

Tarek El-Ariss is the James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. Trained in philosophy and comparative literature at the American University of Beirut, University of Rochester, and Cornell University, he works across disciplines and languages to examine notions of the subject, community, and modernity in Arabic literature and culture. He is author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham UP, 2013) and Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton UP, 2019), Water on Fire: A Memoir of War (Other Press, 2024), and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA, 2018). He is the recipient of many awards and fellowships including the Guggenheim, the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), and EUME-Forum for Transregional Studies in Berlin. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Michigan Literary Quarterly, and The Harvard Review.