Director

Jeffrey Einboden is Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor at Northern Illinois University, and a prior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

A specialist in the literatures and languages of early America and the Middle East, Einboden is author of several monographs, including Islam and Romanticism (Oneworld, 2014); The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture (Oxford UP, 2016); The Qur’an and Kerygma (Equinox, 2019), and, most recently, Jefferson’s Muslim Fugitives: The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President (Oxford UP, 2020).