AIS at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting: Georgetown University

AIS at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting: Georgetown University, March 7-10, 2019

Prof. Elliott Colla presented “Contrapuntal Localism: Negm, Internationalism and Movement Poetry of the 1970s” as part of the Seminar: The Possibilities of Contrapuntal Criticism Today: Nations, Natives and Nativism.

Prof. Suzanne Stetkevych organized the Seminar: The Arabic Qasida: The Poetics and Politics of Performance, to which she contributed:

“Poetic Capital and the Metapoetics of Nostalgia: Yearning for the Homeland In al-Maʿarrī’s Lāmiyyah: (Saqṭ al-Zand 58)

and to which PhD Candidate Cynthia Brandenburg contributed a study of Jarīr: “Bāna al-Khalīṭu: Lyrical Performances that Lull and Lance.”