Khaled Mattawa
Associate Professor
PROFILE:
KHALED MATTAWA is the author of four books of poetry, Tocqueville (New Issues Press, 2010) Amorisco (Ausable Press, 2008), Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003) and Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996).
He has translated nine books of contemporary Arabic poetry by Adonis, 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 Academy of American Poet's Fellowship Prize, the PEN-American Center award for poetry translation, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Alfred Hodder fellowship from Princeton University, an NEA translation grant, and three 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.
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Department Areas of Study: American: Twentieth-Century American; Creative Writing; Intercultural and Post-Colonial Studies; Poetry and Poetics
Primary: Writing Poetry
Secondary: Translation Theory and Practice, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Contemporary American Poetry, Arab American Literature.
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