Shir Alon

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Courses Taught

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

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

Specialties

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

Publications

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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.
• Alon, Shir. "Neoliberal Riskscapes and Preemptive Poetics in Orly Castel-Bloom’s Dolly City." Comparative Literature 71 (2019): 1-18.

Activities

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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.

Courses Taught

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Courses Taught

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