Maya Aghasi
American University of Sharjah
Maya Aghasi is Associate Professor of English at the American University of Sharjah. She received her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has since been researching and publishing on Arab-American writers, world literature, and Lebanese literature and film. She is interested in how gender, exile and displacement, race, language, and the environment intersect to produce identity and a sense of community.