Hanadi Al-Samman is an associate professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on contemporary Arabic literature, diaspora and sexuality studies, as well as transnational and Islamic feminism(s). She has published several articles in Journal of Arabic Literature, Women's Studies International Forum, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, and chapters in a variety of edited collections. She is the co-editor of an International Journal of Middle East Studies’ special issue “Queer Affects” (2013) and Beloved: Love and Languishing in Middle Eastern Literatures and Cultures (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017), and the editor of a Humanities special issue entitled “Arab Diaspora literature Then and Now” (2019). Al-Samman is the author of Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015 and paperback edition, 2019).
