Pauline Homsi Vinson

Interim Director, Center for Arab American Studies

Visiting Assistant Professor, UM-D

Pauline Homsi Vinson is visiting assistant professor and interim director of the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Originally from Lebanon, Pauline has taught literature at universities in the U.S., Malaysia, and the U.A.E. Pauline is co-founder and current president of the Arab American Studies Association (AASA). She also co-founded and chaired the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum at the MLA. Her research interests and publications include translations from Arabic to English, Arab American literature, The Thousand and One Nights, and Shakespeare, with attention to gender, race, migration, the environment, and literary adaptations. Her current project explores the subversive potential of storytelling in Arab American writing and is tentatively titled Transporting Tales: Echoes of the Thousand and One Nights in Contemporary Arab American Literature.