Faculty Profile - Majd Al-Mallah
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Dr. Majd Al-Mallah
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Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
Program Director, Area and Global Studies
Email: [email protected]
Office: MAK B-2-218
Phone: 616-331-3634
Bio
Dr. Majd Al-Mallah is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Grand Valley State University, Michigan. He currently serves as the Director of Area and Global Studies as well as the Coordinator of the Arabic Program. He teaches a variety of Arabic and Middle East Studies classes at GVSU. His research focuses on classical Arabic poetry, with a current focus on women poets in al-Andalus. He is the author of In the Shadows of the Master: Al-Mutanabbi's Legacy and the Quest for the Center in Fatimid and Andalusian Poetry and the co-editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers. He is also the author of numerous articles on classical and modern Arabic literature.
Areas of Interest
Classical Arabic Poetry
Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 2002.
Publications
Numerous refereed articles and two book publications:
In the Shadows of the Master: Al-Mutanabbi's Legacy and the Quest for the Center in Fatimid and Andalusian Poetry. Berkshire: Berkshire Academic Press, 2012.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers. Edited by Majd Al-Mallah and Coeli Fitzpatrick. Detroit, Gale Group, 2009.