Nouri Gana holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, <http://www.complit.ucla.edu/people/faculty/gana/> He published numerous articles on comparative Arab & Arab American, postcolonial & modernist literatures and cultures, narrative poetics, psychoanalysis and deconstruction in, among others, American Imago, PMLA, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, CR: The New Centennial Review and The Journal of North African Studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the affective politics of Arab contemporaneity tentatively titled, Arab Melancholia: Toward an Affective Theory of Cultural Empowerment, and finalizing a collection of critical essays on the intellectual history and contemporary significance of the Arab novel in English, The Rise of the Arab Novel in English: The Politics of Anglo Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. His first book, Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning, will be published by Bucknell University Press in the Fall of 2010. His latest publications include, “Everyday Arabness,” which can be found in CR: The New Centennial Review 9.2 (2009) <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_centennial_review/v009/9.2.gana.pdf> and "War, Poetry, Mourning: Darwish, Adonis, Iraq," which can be found in Public Culture 22.1 (2010): 33-65 < http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/22/1/33 >