IDRF fellows discuss Ronit Ricci's book Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia, based on research conducted during her International Dissertation Research Fellowship and completed with…

Rebecca Johnson
Rebecca Johnson was an International Dissertation Research Fellow (IDRF) in 2007. She teaches courses in Middle Eastern literary and cultural studies, with a special focus on modern Arabic literature. Her research examines the history and theory of the novel in Arabic and English, the literature of the nineteenth-century period known as the Nahda, and literary orientalism and occidentalism. Her current book project considers the intertwined early histories of Arabic and English novels, using translation as a lens through which to understand the form and function of the genre. Johnson has published translations of Arabic literature, including a co-translation of Sinan Antoon’s I’jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (City Lights Books, 2007).