Jamil Khader

Dr. Jamil Khader is Dean of Research and Professor of English at Bethlehem University, Palestine. Before arriving at Bethlehem University, Dr. Khader taught at Stetson University in Deland, Florida, and served as the Director of the Gender Studies Program, the Co-Chair of the Diversity Council, and as a member of various committees addressing tenure and promotion policies as well as grievance and academic freedom. He has also taught courses on postcolonial studies, popular culture, and literary theory at Stetson University, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and at Bir Zeit University.

Dr. Khader is the author of numerous publications on postcolonial feminism, popular culture, literary theory, and pedagogy (the scholarship of teaching), which appeared in various international peer-reviewed journals and other collections. He is also the author of Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms: Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics (Lexington Books 2012); this book will be published in paper back this year. He is also the co-editor, with Molly Rothenberg, of a collection of essays on the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, entitled, Žižek Now: Current Perspectives in Žižek Studies (Polity 2013). This book has been slated for translation in German and Korean and will be published next year.

His political commentary has been featured on Aljazeera in English, Jadaliyya, The Palestine Chronicle, Center for the Secular Research and Studies in the Arab World (Al-Hewar Al-Mutamaden), PPSArabia, News with Conscience, and other venues. He is currently working on various articles as well as two book-length projects—one on literature of the fantastic (science fiction, fairy tales, and vampire narratives), and the other on the significance of Palestine in and for internationalist revolutionary discourses.