Christopher BrownAssociate Professor B.A. English, University of Notre Dame BioAs an academic administrator, Christopher has served in various capacities, including most recently at the Founding Director of The International College at Zayed University. His academic publications include work on travel literature, Nineteenth-century European art and literature, identity in the Arabia Gulf, architecture of the Gulf, and literary canon formation.
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Abu Dhabi South Campus, (Room Z-109) Teaching AreasFilm and Literature The Novel Pop Culture in Arabia Humanities Post Colonialism Research and Professional Activities“Constructing Canons: the Significance of Selecting Works for Translation” in Globalization and Aspects of Translation, Said Shiyab et al eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010.
“Claiming Vernacular Architecture in the Gulf”. Tribulus, vol. 18, 2009, pp. 72-73. ENHG, Abu Dhabi. "Risks and Returns of the High Culture Gamble in the UAE”. ArteEast Online, December, 2008 (www.arteeast.org) “Humanistic Inclusion: the Case for the Humanities in the Gulf”. Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives. Volume 5, number 2, June, 2008. “Five-Star Mussandam Bush” in Encounters with the Middle East, Nesreen Khashan and Jim Bowman eds. Palo Alto, CA: Solas House, 2007. "Knowing Children: Performing Childishness in Nineteenth-Century Painting and the Novel (manuscript under review at Peter Lange Press). |
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