{"id":18084,"date":"2022-11-10T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T14:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/?post_type=profile&p=18084"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T14:59:05","slug":"margaret-litvin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/profile\/margaret-litvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Litvin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fall 2022 Office Hours:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>STH 634, Tues 1-2, Wed 11-12:30, and by appointment<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Margaret Litvin is a historian of modern Arabic literature and theatre. Her first book,\u00a0<\/span>Hamlet\u2019s Arab Journey: Shakespeare\u2019s Prince and Nasser\u2019s Ghost<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Princeton, 2011), has been taught in university courses ranging from \u201cTheatre History\u201d to \u201cThe New Comparative Literature\u201d to \u201cAnthropology of the Middle East.\u201d Her current research continues the effort to situate Arab cultural production in global context. Her book manuscript,\u00a0<\/span>Another East:<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Arab Writers, Moscow Dreams<\/em>, reconstructs some literary legacies of Arab-Russian and Arab-Soviet cultural ties. Another ongoing book project,\u00a0<\/span>Sindbad\u2019s Raft, Houdini\u2019s Cage: Arab\/ic Theatre in the New World Market,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>analyzes the phenomenon of Arab\/ic theatre produced for European and American audiences. Her translations include\u00a0<\/span>Hamlet<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>adaptations by Syrian and Iraqi playwrights (in\u00a0<\/span>Four Arab Hamlet Plays<\/em>, co-edited with Marvin Carlson, Segal Theatre Center, 2016) and Sonallah Ibrahim\u2019s Moscow-set novel\u00a0<\/span>Ice<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Seagull Publishing, 2019).<\/p>\n

At BU, Litvin teaches Arabic and world literature, including literary translation, \u201cGlobal Shakespeares,\u201d and \u201c1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination.\u201d She was founding director of the Middle East & North Africa Studies Program (2013-2017). She advises students in the Arabic minor and WLL\u2019s BA in Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages & Literatures. She is a core faculty member of the new Masters in Literary Translation.<\/p>\n

Litvin\u2019s research has been supported by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, ACLS, BU Peter Paul Career Development Professorship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Center for Arabic Study Abroad. Her writing and interviews have appeared in\u00a0<\/span>Theatre Research International<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Journal of Arabic Literature<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Critical Survey<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Tank<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>PMLA<\/em>, several Shakespeare journals, and the online venues\u00a0<\/span>ArabLit,<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Marginalia Review of Books<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Words Without Borders<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>n+1<\/em>. She has served on dissertation committees at BU, Harvard, NYU, Trinity College Dublin, and Complutense University in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Margaret Litvin\u2019s CV<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch Professor Litvin\u2019s lecture, \u201cTongue-Tied Internationalism: Adventures with a Soviet Setting, an Egyptian Novel, and an Indian Press\u201d, presented at BU\u2019s Translation Seminar (April 10, 2020)<\/a><\/p>\n

Read an interview with Professor Litvin, \u201cTeaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: The Bilingual Course, Backwards\u201d a discussion about CAS LY 350.<\/a><\/p>\n

Read Professor Litvin\u2019s essay about teaching Literary Translation at Boston University<\/a><\/p>\n

Read an interview with Professor Litvin on the blog for Transregional Research, Berlin. \u201cI want to see more rising scholars with large and diverse language sets and really transnational interests \u2013 5in10 with Margaret Litvin\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch Professor Litvin\u2019s lecture \u201cShall We Be or Not Be: Shakespeare\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Hamlet<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and the Anxieties of Arab Nationalism.\u201d<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Visit Professor Litvin\u2019s Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n

Discussion with director Hani Afifi at Cairo University, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Interview with BBC Arabic on Arabic Chekhov adaptations, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

Visit to a Hamlet class in Gaza, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20865,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18086,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/18084\/revisions\/18086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}