Pauline Homsi Vinson

Pauline Homsi Vinson holds a PhD in English literature from Northwestern University. Originally from Lebanon, she has taught literature courses in the US, Malaysia, and the U.A.E. Pauline was interim director of the Center for Arab American Studies at UM-Dearborn in 2022-2023. She is co-founder and current president of the Arab American Studies Association (AASA) and was chair and co-founder of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum at the MLA.

Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies, co-edited with Louise Cainkar and Amira Jarmakani. Syracuse UP, 2022.

“Arab American Literature.” In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Ed. Jon Butler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

“Arab American Literature, Storytelling, and the Paradox of Shahrazad.” Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies, co-edited with Louise Cainkar and Amira Jarmakani. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2022.

Re-encountering Scheherazade: Gender, Cultural Mobility, and Narrative Transformations in Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter. Mashriq & Mahjar Special Issue on Gender and Mobility. 2:1 (2014), 55-76.

Honorable Mention, Arab American National Museum Book Award 2022, for Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies, co-edited with Louise Cainkar and Amira Jarmakani. Syracuse UP, 2022.