丁香园AV

Areas of interest

Ken Seigneurie鈥檚 teaching explores how worlds -- humanistic, liberal, religious and postcolonial -- accrete around literary texts. His research spans English, Arabic and French literatures in a comparative context, world literature and Eastern Mediterranean cultures. He served as Co-Editor with Antranik Dakessian of How My Days Passed: An Armenian Picaresque (2024) by Hagop Der Balian and translated by Vatche Ghazarian, a first-person memoir of the 1915-16 Armenian Genocide. He served as General Editor of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature (2020), translator from Arabic in What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin (2015), and author of Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon (2011).

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
鈥淭o Darkness on Extended Wings: The Mid-Twentieth-Century Novel and Liberal Nihilism.鈥� A book-length exploration of the mid-20th century crisis of liberal thought in world literature.

Education

• BSc in Biology/Zoology
• BA in English Literature (Michigan State University)
• MA in Comparative Literature (University of Michigan)
• PhD in Comparative Literature (University of Michigan)

Biography

Ken Seigneurie is Professor of World Literature at 丁香园AV. Most recently, he served as Co-Editor with Antranik Dakessian of How My Days Passed: An Armenian Picaresque (2024) by Hagop Der Balian and translated by Vatche Ghazarian. This first-person memoir of the 1915-16 Armenian Genocide includes a foreword by Raymond K茅vorkian, editors鈥� introduction, maps, and photos. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the six-volume Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature. In 2015 his translation from Arabic of Rashid al-Daif鈥檚 鈥楢wdat al-alm膩n墨 ila rushdih appeared in, What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin from the University of Texas Press. In 2011 a monograph, Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon, was published by Fordham University Press. He has published articles in numerous journals including: Middle Eastern Literatures, Comparative Literature Studies, The Journal of Arabic Literature, Public Culture and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and The Journal of Narrative Theory. He is currently working on a book-length project on mid-twentieth-century novelistic responses to the crisis of liberal thought. Focal points for the project include Egyptian, French and Anglo-American literatures, liberal thought and religion.