Rita Sakr

Rita Sakr is Associate Professor in Postcolonial and Global Literatures at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study and of ‘Anticipating’ the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies, co-editor of The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut and James Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel, and co-director/co-producer of the ESRC-funded documentary on Beirut, White Flags. Her recent publications focus on contemporary experimental Arab(ic) literatures, literary engagements with forced displacement, necropolitics and the environmental humanities, and have appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Refuge, among others. She is completing a third monograph titled Arab Displacements: Experimental Literature, Necropolitics and Decolonial Hauntology (under contract with Edinburgh University Press).