I am Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. I also serve as editor‑in‑chief of the field’s flagship 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 Cambridge Companion to Modern Arabic Literature (Cambridge 2026). I am currently at work on a new book, How Language Became Data.

As a comparatist working across Francophone, Arabic, and Anglophone literatures, I am committed to understanding how images, texts, and technologies shape our ways of seeing and understanding the world. At the heart of my scholarship is a belief in the humanities as a space for critical, creative, experimental, and transformative inquiry.