Biography
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Affiliated with:
Department of French & Italian, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Centers for African, Global, Latin American and Caribbean, South Asian and Middle Eastern, European Union, and Translation Studies
Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Research Interests
- Arabic and Arab Diaspora literatures
- Arabic intellectual history
- comparative literature
- transnational studies
- postcolonial and translation theory
Research Description
My current research focuses on the Arabic novel and on Arab literary and cultural relations with the Americas.
Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UIUC (1998)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Head, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Professor, English
Professor, French and Italian
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Professor, European Union Center
Professor, Center for African Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Global Studies
Recent Publications
Hassan, W. S. (2024). Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197688762.001.0001
Hassan, W. S. (2024). The Arab American Novel. In American Fiction Since 1940 (Vol. 8, pp. 365-381). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844729.003.0016
Hassan, W. S. (2022). The Rise of Arab American Literature. In L. Cainkar, P. Homsi Vinson, & A. Jarmakani (Eds.), Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies (pp. 308-316). (Critical Arab American Studies). Syracuse University Press.
Hassan, W. S. (2021). Geopolitics of comparison: world literature avant la lettre. Comparative Literature, 73(3), 255-269. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8993912
Hassan, W. S. (2021). South-South Relations in the Era of Far-Right Populism: The Syrian Refugee Crisis on Brazilian Television. Comparative Literature Studies, 58(3), 557-581. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.58.3.0557