Tarek El-Ariss
|Professor
Chair, Middle Eastern Studies Program
The James Wright Professor at Dartmouth College
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Tarek El-Ariss is the James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. In 2021, he earned a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete his new book, Water on Fire: A Memoir of War. Trained in philosophy, comparative literature, and visual and cultural studies, he works across disciplines and languages to examine notions of the subject, community, and modernity. His research interests include Arabic literature, culture, and the arts; literary theory, new media, and digital humanities; Nahda and modernity studies; travel writing and the war novel; sci-fi and utopia studies; 18th- and 19th-century French philosophy and literature; and gender and sexuality studies. He is author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political and Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age, and editor of the MLA anthology, The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda.
Contact
Reed, Room 317
HB 6178
Department(s)
Middle Eastern Studies
Education
- Ph.D. Cornell University
- M.A. University of Rochester
- B.A. American University of Beirut
Selected Publications
Water on Fire: A Memoir of War (New York: Other Press, 2024)
- Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton University Press, 2019)
- The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (The Modern Language Association, 2018)
- Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham University Press, 2013)
