Nirvana Tanoukhi

Nirvana Tanoukhi received her doctorate in Modern Thought & Literature from Stanford University in 2009. In 2009-2010, she was a resident fellow at the Harvard Humanities Center. Her research engages a wide range of fields including: the novel of Africa, the Arab world, and their diasporas; postcolonial literature and criticism; uneven development in the history and theory of the novel; world literature; cultural geography; and translation in theory and practice. She has lived in Lebanon, Liberia, Spain, and the U.S. Her current research focuses on modern fiction in Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, and Morocco.

Tanoukhi is co-editor (with Bruce Robbins and David Palumbo-Liu) of an essay collection—Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture (Duke University Press, 2010)—which articulates the stakes of a humanistic intervention in the globalization debates. She has published articles in Research in African Literatures and New Literary History, and is contributing an African chapter to The Routledge Companion to World Literature. She is translator of two Arabic novels: Passage to Dusk by Rachid al-Daif and Maryam of the Stories by Alawiyya Subuh.