Northern Illinois University
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Educational Background

• Ph.D. University of Cambridge; 2005
• M.Phil., University of Cambridge; 2001
• M.A. York University, Toronto; 2000
• B.A. York University, Toronto; 1999

Professional Interests

• American Romanticism
• Middle Eastern Translation
• Transatlantic Literatures
• Sufi Poetry
• Scriptural Languages

Selected Publications

• Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives (Oxford UP, 2020)
• The Qur'an and Kerygma (Equinox, 2019)
• The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture (Oxford UP, 2016)
• Islam and Romanticism: Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson. London: Oneworld, 2014.
• Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature in Middle Eastern Languages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
• “‘Call me Ismā‘īl’: The Arabic Moby-Dick of Ihsān ‘Abbās” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 12:1 (2010): 3-19.
• "Stoicism or Sufism?: Hammer-Purgstall's Persian Meditations." Middle Eastern Literatures 13:1 (2010): 49-68.
• The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz, co-authored with John Slater (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2009).
• “A Qur’ānic Milton: From Paradise to al-Firdaws” Milton Quarterly 43:3 (2009): 183-194.
• “The Genesis of Weltliteratur: Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan and Kerygmatic Pluralism.” Literature & Theology 19:3 (2005): 238-250. Rpt. in 100 seminal papers from Oxford Journals. 2006 <http://www.oxfordjournals.org/news/centenary>.