Rachel Green

Professor Green's research interests include Modern Arabic and Hebrew literatures and cultures, affect, literary empathy, postcolonial ecologies, and minor literatures in their myriad forms. 

Her current book project, Literary Empathy in the Modern Middle East (under contract with Edinburgh University Press), critically reads the poetics of intergroup empathy across sites of biopolitical exclusion in Palestine/Israel and the Arab Gulf.  

Her peer reviewed work has been published in Dibur, the Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures (JMEL), Journal of Arabic Literature (JAL), and Comparative Literature. Her reviews and review essays have appeared in Hebrew Studies, Arab Studies Journal, and Comparative Literature Studies. Her first literary translation appears on Arablit.org.

In addition to her literary scholarship and teaching, she has extensive training and experience in communicative language pedagogy. As such, she strives to bring the best of immersive language teaching and learning to the upper-level Comparative Literature classroom. Learn more about the four-skill Arabic program at UMass here: https://www.umass.edu/languages-literatures-cultures/academics/arabic

She is a member of the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the American Literary Translators of Association (ALTA).

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, she served as Lecturer of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin and was a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Damascus, Syria. 

COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT:

• COMPLIT 141: Good and Evil 

• COMPLIT 351: Crossing Borders in Israel/Palestine

• COMPLIT 361: Oil, Commodity, Capitalism in Modern Arabic Literature

• COMPLIT 691P: Postcolonial Ecocriticism 

• COMPLIT 752: Theory and Practice of Comparative Literature

WORKING LANGUAGES 

• Arabic 
• Hebrew