Levi Thompson

Levi Thompson is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on modernist literary developments outside of Europe. Levi’s first book, Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry, was published by Cambridge University Press and won the inaugural edition of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies from the MLA. He is the editor of A History of Middle Eastern Modernism, also with Cambridge.