Contact Information
707 S Mathews
M/C 160
Urbana, IL 61801
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
Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Professor, English
Professor, French and Italian
Professor, Center for Global Studies
Professor, European Union Center
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for African Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Recent Publications
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
Hassan, W. S. (2020). As relações Sul-Sul na era do populismo de extrema direita: A crise dos refugiados sírios na televisão brasileira. In W. Hassan, & R. Lima (Eds.), Literatura e (i)migração no Brasil (pp. 486-515). Edições Makunaima. http://www.edicoesmakunaima.com.br/catalogo/2-critica-literaria/45-literatura-e-imigracao-no-brasil-literature-and-immigration-in-brazil
Hassan, W. S. (2020). Humberto de Campos and Brazilian ‘Arab’ Texts. In W. Hassan, & R. Lima (Eds.), Literatura e (i)migração no Brasil (pp. 122-138). Edições Makunaima. http://www.edicoesmakunaima.com.br/catalogo/2-critica-literaria/45-literatura-e-imigracao-no-brasil-literature-and-immigration-in-brazil
Hassan, W. S., & Lima, R. (Eds.) (2020). Literatura e (i)migração no Brasil/Literature and (Im)migration in Brazil. Edições Makunaima. http://www.edicoesmakunaima.com.br/catalogo/2-critica-literaria/45-literatura-e-imigracao-no-brasil-literature-and-immigration-in-brazil