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Al-Najjar, Deborah
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Deborah Al-Najjar
Curriculum Vitae
Department of American Studies & Ethnicity
3470 Trousdale Parkway, WPH 303 Los Angeles, CA 90035
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4033
EDUCATION
Doctoral Candidate,
Department of American Studies & Ethnicity
University of Southern California, 2007-
Dissertation: “Around 1991: The Performative Grammar of Iraq”
MA, American Studies & Ethnicity 2009
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
MA, English 1990
Wayne State University, Detroit
BA, English 1987
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
AREAS OF INTEREST
Race and ethnicity, comparative ethnic studies, Arab American studies, African American studies, performance studies, queer theory, feminist theory, creative non-fiction
PUBLICATIONS
EDITED BOOK
We are all Iraqis
Co-Editors Dr. Nadje Al-Ali, Deborah Al-Najjar
Our book manuscript includes fiction writers, poets, artists, activists, and academics.They represent a multiplicity of Iraqi voices inside Iraq and from the Diasporas. Contributors include Alise Alousi, Hashim Al-Tawil, Nada Shabout, Sinan Anton, Maysoon Pachachi, Ella Shohat, Sinan Antoon, Wafaa Bilal, and many others. Submitted to press September 2009 Syracuse University press (under contract)
INTERVIEWS
“The Stuff the Movement is Made of”: An Interview with Neelam Sharma in Make/Shift: Feminisms in Motion May 2008
“Fragments of Hope: An Interview with Lisa Suhair Majaj”International Feminist Journal of Politics September 2007
BLOG BOOK REVIEW
Short book review of I, the Divine under “Underappreciated Books”
Ed. Laila Lalami Moorishgirl Blog (June 2006):
http://www.moorishgirl.com/archives/2006_06.html
FICTION
“Mariam Athra” Artenews Ed. Maymanah Farhat (May 2006)
http://www.arteeast.org/artenews/artenews-articles2006/story-athra.html
“A Cup of Tea” ForkRoads Ed. David Kherdian (Spring 1995)
“Selma’s Weddings” Michigan Quarterly Review Ed. Anton Shammas (Fall 1992)
“Bebe Khomee” Indiana Review Ed. Charles Baxter (Winter 1988)
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
College Merit Fellowship 2009-2010
Annenberg Fellowship 2007-2008
American Studies and Ethnicity Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Nomination by Gender Studies for Excellence in Teaching Assistantship
University of Southern California 2009
Participant in the Jerusalem-Dearborn Institute program" Connecting Dearborn and Jerusalem: Collaborative American and Arab
American Studies Programs," Al-Quds University in Palestine,
Sponsored by Center for Arab American Studies, UM-Dearborn, June 2006
Distinguished Student Club Faculty Advisor, Club Achievement Award, Community Service Student Club, Henry Ford Community College, 2005
Runner – up for the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, 1995
Humanities Center Fellowship, Wayne State University, 1995
Volunteer of the Year Award, Arab American Arts Council, Cultural Arts program, 1994
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
“Racial/Sexual Terror: Alan Ball and Alicia Erian’s Towelhead” American Studies Association Washington D.C. November 2009
“Palestine and American Passports: Privileges and Protocols” Co-authored with Sriya Shrestha and Kenny Garcia (presented by Sriya Shrestha) San Francisco State University 40 Year
Anniversary Ethnic Studies Conference San Francisco October 2009
Organizer: BDS Palestine Solidarity Strategy Meeting. Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies Graduate Student Conference
University of Southern California Los Angeles March 2009
Roundtable organizer and participant on Afrofuturism. Imagining America Conference, USC, Los Angeles October 2008
“The Negation of the Negation: Kara Walker’s Queer Cuts” Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference, UCLA, October 2008
“Iraqi Cultural Production” Roundtable co-organizer with Nadje Al-Ali
Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, Canada November 2007
“Arab American Sitings in Cyberspace: The Aesthetics of Mohja Kahf and Lalia Lalami” Middle East Studies Association Boston November 2006
"An Iraqi Community's Search for Identity & the Limitations of Sectarianism" Feminisms & War Conference Syracuse University, Syracuse October 2006
“Facing Apartheid Israel in Academic Palestine: Racial profiling and the Destruction of self & culture” Witnesses to War, Anti-war committee at Wayne State University, Invited speaker Detroit, Michigan September 2006
"It's Sex, Stupid! Academic Representations of Arab Sexualities"
World Congress of Middle East Studies Amman, Jordan June 2006
“Writing Arab Ethnicity and Exiling the Self” Ramallah, Palestine, the Jerusalem Institute, June 2006
“Multiple Betrayals: Reflections on Chaldean Identity & Academic Constructions of Ethnicity” Mapping Arab Diasporas Conference Center for Arab American Studies Dearborn, Michigan April 2006
“The Making of an Arab American Literary Community: Challenges and Opportunities A Panel Discussion with Representatives of RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers)” Diwan: Arab in the Arts Forum a conference at Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan April 2006
Women of Color Workshop participant at “Where is home: Gender, Sexuality, and Transnationalism” conference with Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Mohanty, and Lamia Ben Yousef Zayzafoon Organized by Rabab Abdulhadi, Center for Arab American Studies & Women &Gender Program, University of Michigan-Dearborn March 9-10, 2006
“Arab Identities: Recent Literary and Academic Constructions” Arab Culture in the US panels (new area in SWPC) Southwest/Pop Culture Conference Albuquerque, NM February 2006
“Religious Barriers: Crossing the Cultural Lines in Arab Communities” Council of American Cultures Forum, Henry Ford Community College Dearborn, Michigan February 2005
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