I am Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. I also serve as the editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Literature.

My research engages postcolonial theory, visual culture, and comparative media to explore the social and technological infrastructures that mediate aesthetic experience. I am the author of In the Shadow of World Literature (Princeton 2016), Cinema before the World (Fordham 2026), and co-editor with Zeina G. Halabi of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Modern Arabic Literature. I am currently at work on a new book, How Language Became Data.

As a comparatist working in Francophone, Arabic, and Anglophone literatures, I am committed to understanding how languages and images construct and contest a sense of the world. At the heart of my scholarship is a belief in the humanities as a space for critical, creative, and transformative inquiry.