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Litvin, Margaret

Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Boston University

Associate Professor of Arabic & Comparative Literature, Boston University. Author of "Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost" (Princeton, 2011) and translator of Sonallah Ibrahim's "Ice" (Seagull, 2019) and two of "Four Arab Hamlet Plays" (Segal Theatre Center, 2016). Editorial board member, IJMES.

DISCIPLINE
Literature
SUB AREAS
Drama   
19th-21st Centuries   
Arab Studies   
Theater   
Translation   
AREAS OF INTEREST
Egypt   
Syria   
Iraq   
Europe   
SPECIALTIES
Arabic theatre for global audiences   
Arab-Soviet educational ties   
Arab-Russian literary connections   
LANGUAGES
Arabic (Advanced)   
Russian (Native)   
French (Fluent)   
Spanish (Intermediate)   
German (Elementary)   
Swedish (Elementary)   
Italian (Elementary)   
EDUCATION
PhD2006Social ThoughtUniversity of Chicago
BA1995HumanitiesYale University
ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED AT MESA MEETINGS SINCE 2009
Hailed and Haunted: Syrian Playwrights in 2016-2018 Berlin (2019)   
Another East: Arabic Literature’s Soviet Archive (2018)   
Letters to Tolstoy: Arab Writers Between Prophesy and Fiction (2012)   
From Russia with Iltizam?: Soviet Models, Egyptian Shakespeare, and Nasser's Ghost (2009)   
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Margaret Litvin






Boston University
745 Commonwealth Ave. 6th floor
Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Boston, MA
02215
United States

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