Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of French, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Flights from Egypt: Literary Itineraries and Poetic Languages (Georges Henein, Edmond Jabes, Joyce Mansour)
Yasser Elhariry received his BSc and MA from Purdue University, and has studied at the Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg, France) and the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. He completed his doctorate in the Department of French at NYU, where he presented his dissertation on francophone Egyptian literature. In it, he establishes the place of the œuvres of Georges Henein, Edmond Jabès, and Joyce Mansour in relation to contemporaneous French poetics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has presented numerous papers on the topic, and has a forthcoming article on Jabès and classical Arabic poetry. His future projects involve delving deeper into the comparative poetics of French and Arabic literatures in the Near and Middle Easts. He improvises electronic music in his free time.
Yasser is currently an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College in the Department of French and Italian.