Faculty Member
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature
mlitvin@bu.edu
718 Commonwealth Ave.
Room 302 A
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-6231 |
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Interests:
Arabic Literature
Contemporary Arab Theatre
Shakespeare from an Arab Perspective
Rule of Law Issues
Courses:
LY 223 - Major Works of Middle Eastern Literature
Publications:
“Explosive Signifiers: Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Post-9/11 Odyssey,” under review at Shakespeare Yearbook (theme issue on Shakespeare After 9/11).
Guest editor of Critical Survey 19:3(December 2007), special issue on Arab Shakespeares. Article in that issue: “Vanishing Intertexts in the Arab Hamlet Tradition,” 74-94.
“When the Villain Steals the Show: The Character of Claudius in Post-1975 Arab(ic) Hamlet Adaptations.” Journal of Arabic Literature, 38:2 (2007), 196-219.
Review of Sulayman al-Bassam’s Richard III: An Arab Tragedy. In Shakespeare Bulletin 25:4 (Winter 2007), 85-91.
Jawad Al-Asadi’s play Insū Hāmlit (Forget Hamlet, 2000), translated for performance and limited publication at the VIII World Shakespeare Congress, Brisbane, Australia, 2006.
“The Rule of Law as a Unifying Ideal: Developing a Culture of Lawfulness in Lebanon,” in Osama Abi-Mershed, ed., Trajectories of Education in the Arab World: Legacies and Challenges (Routledge, forthcoming).
R. Godson, D. Kenney, M. Litvin, and G. Tevzadze, “Building Societal Support for the Rule of Law in Georgia,” Trends in Organized Crime 8:2 (Winter 2004): 5-27.
“Haitian Scene” and “Mango” (two poems), Anthropology and Humanism 29:2 (Dec. 2004): 192-4. Honorable mention in Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2004 Poetry Awards.
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