Rachel Green

Professor Green's research interests include Modern Arabic and Hebrew literatures and cultures, affect, empathy, histories of emotion, postcolonial ecocriticism, and minor literatures in their myriad forms. She is a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher whose courses range from large lecture general education courses to small graduate seminars.  

Her current book project, tentatively entitled Map of Dreams: Empathy and Enclosure in the Modern Middle East, critically reads the literary poetics of intergroup empathy across sites of civic 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 further appeared in Hebrew Studies, Arab Studies Journal, and Comparative Literature Studies. Her first literary translation appears on Arablit.org, with more to follow. 

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 Assocation (ALTA).

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. 

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. 

WORKING LANGUAGES 

• Arabic 
• Hebrew