Khaled Mattawa
Assistant Professor
PROFILE:
KHALED MATTAWA is the author of four books of poetry, Tocqueville (New Issues Press, forthcoming 2010) Amorisco (Ausable Press, 2008), Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003) and Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996).
He has translated eight books of contemporary Arabic poetry by Saadi Youssef, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Hatif Janabi, Maram Al-Massri, Joumana Haddad, Amjad Nasser, and Iman Mersal. Mattawa has co-edited two anthologies of Arab American literature.
Mattawa has been awarded the PEN award for literary translation, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Alfred Hodder fellowship from Princeton University, an NEA translation grant, and 3 Pushcart prizes.
His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Best American Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies.
Prof. Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya and immigrated to the United States in his teens.
Publications:
Books of Poetry:
Tocqueville (New Issues), forthcoming April 2010.
Amorisco (Ausable Press, 2008);
Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003);
Ismailia Eclipse (The Sheep Meadow Press, 1995).
Poetry Books of Translation from Arabic:
Shepherd of Solitude: Selected Poems of Amjad Nasser (Banipal Books, U.K., 2009);
These Are Not Oranges, My Love: Selected Poems of Iman Mersal (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2008);
Invitation to A Secret Feast: Selected Poems of Joumana Haddad (Tupelo Press, 2008);
A Red Cherry on A White-Tile Floor, poems by Maram Al-Massri (Copper Canyon, 2007);
Miracle Maker, Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (BOA Editions, 2004);
Without An Alphabet, Without A Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef (Graywolf Press, 2002);
In Every Well A Joseph Is Weeping, Poems of Fadhil al-Azzawi (Quarterly Review of Books, 1997);
Questions and Their Retinue: Selected Poems of Hatif Janabi (University of Arkansas Press, 1996).
Anthologies of Arab American Literature:
Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Arab American Fiction (University of Arkansas Press, 2004, second edition 2009);
Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing (Syracuse University Press, 2009).
Reasearch Interests:
Department Areas of Study: American: Twentieth-Century American; Creative Writing; Intercultural and Post-Colonial Studies; Poetry and Poetics
Primary: Arab American Literature, Translation Theory and Practice, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Contemporary American Poetry.
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