Margaret Litvin

Margaret Litvin is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Boston University and the founding director of BU's program in Middle East and North Africa Studies. Her book, Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost (Princeton, 2011), examines the many reworkings of Shakespeare's Hamlet in postcolonial Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Her current book project (working title Another East: Arab Writers, Moscow Dreams) explores the educational and cultural ties between the Soviet Union and several Arab countries during and since the Cold War, tracing their effects on Arabic literature and theatre. This research has been supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale, a Peter Paul Career Development Professorship at BU, an ACLS Frederick Burhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, and a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Litvin holds a PhD from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought (2006). Her articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Theatre Research International, Critical Survey, the Journal of Arabic Literature, PMLA, Marginalia Review of Books, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Yearbook, and Shakespeare Bulletin.