Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature; Michigan Society Postdoctoral Research Fellow
dmahmoud@umich.edu
Global Islamic Studies Center;
GISC Faculty
Education/Degree:
PhD in Comparative Literature & Visual Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 2024
About
Dina Mahmoud is a comparatist and visual studies scholar of Southwest Asia and East Africa. Her research explores the ethics of different reading, listening, viewing and--more broadly--witnessing practices within and outside academic institutions. Her current book manuscript examines professional and nonprofessional reading(s) of visual material and performances on civil conflicts from Lebanon and the Sudans. Her examination of literary and artistic reception pays particular attention to how experiences of affect, orality, visuality inform and are informed by cultures and practices of knowledge production. Her recent publications include "Drawing Listening and Reading with a Visual Ear" in ImageText and "On the Animating Affect of ṭarab and its (Un)Translatability" in Middle Eastern Literatures.
