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Areas of interest

Comparative literature and liberal thought and religion.

Education

• PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
• MA, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
• BA, English Literature, Michigan State University
• BA, Biology/Zoology, Michigan State University

Biography

Ken Seigneurie is Professor of World Literature at SFU. Most recently, he served as Co-Editor with Antranik Dakessian of 鈥淗ow My Days Passed: An Armenian Picaresque鈥� (2024) by Hagop Der Balian and translated by Vatche Ghazarian. This first-person memoir of the 1915-16 Armenian Genocide includes a foreword by Raymond K茅vorkian, editors鈥� introduction, maps, and photos. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the six-volume 鈥淲iley Blackwell Companion to World Literature.鈥� In 2015 his translation from Arabic of Rashid al-Daif鈥檚 鈥楢wdat al-alm膩n墨 ila rushdih appeared in, 鈥淲hat Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin鈥� from the University of Texas Press. In 2011 a monograph, 鈥淪tanding by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon,鈥� was published by Fordham University Press. He has published articles in numerous journals including: 鈥淢iddle Eastern Literatures,鈥� 鈥淐omparative Literature Studies,鈥� 鈥淭he Journal of Arabic Literature,鈥� 鈥淧ublic Culture鈥� and 鈥淐omparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East,鈥� and 鈥淭he Journal of Narrative Theory.鈥� He is currently working on a book-length project on mid-twentieth-century novelistic responses to the crisis of liberal thought. Focal points for the project include Egyptian, French and Anglo-American literatures, liberal thought and religion.