Rita Sakr

Rita Sakr is Lecturer in Postcolonial and Global Literatures at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is the author of Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel: An Interdisciplinary Study (Continuum, 2012; and in paperback, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), and of ‘Anticipating’ the 2011 Arab Uprisings: Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies (Palgrave, 2013), co-editor of The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut (Routledge, 2013) and James Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel (2011), and co-director and co-producer of the RCUK-funded documentary on Beirut, White Flags (2014). Her recent publications focus on migrant and refugee literary and cultural production (especially Arab and Kurdish) and interdisciplinary approaches to global Arab literary geographies and have appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture and Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, among others.