Shir Alon

Contact Me

alon@umn.edu

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies .
220 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St SE

Affiliations

• Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
• Jewish Studies, Center for

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D: Comparative Literature, UCLA, 2017.
• B.A.: Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2010.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• Modern Arabic Language and Literature
• literary theory
• Modern Hebrew Literature
• Postcolonial Theory and Criticism;
• Gender and Feminism

Courses Taught

• Petrofictions: Oil and Culture in the Middle East
• Arab Feminisms
• Djinn and Ghosts in Modern Arabic Literature
• Kedma! Hebrew Literature Facing the Orient
• Minoritization: Middle East and South Asia

Research & Professional Activities

Research

• STATIC: Middle Eastern Literature Writing the Present: book manuscript in progress
• Future Imperfect: Fictions and Logics of Security in the Middle East: book manuscript in progress

Publications

• Alon, Shir. "No One to See Here: Genres of Neutralization and the Ongoing Nakba,” ." Arab Studies Journal 27 (2019): 92-119.
• Alon, Shir. "Gendering the Arab-Jew: Feminism and Jewish Studies After Ella Shohat." Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society 24 (2019): 57–73. Link
• Alon, Shir. "Neoliberal Riskscapes and Preemptive Poetics in Orly Castel-Bloom’s Dolly City." Comparative Literature 71 (2019): 1-18. Link