A Concise Companion to World Literature

KEN SEIGNEURIE is Professor of World Literature at Simon Fraser University. His research explores Arabic, French, and English literatures of the Levant with a focus on religious palimpsests in liberal cultures. He is the author of Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon and has published in numerous journals, including Middle Eastern Literatures, Comparative Literature Studies, Journal of Arabic Literature, Public Culture, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory.

PAULA KARGER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research examines cultural exchange between Arabic, Spanish, and Yucatec Mayan cultural works in the medieval and colonial periods. She also studies the impact of experiential learning and global classrooms on the development of intercultural skills. She is the co-author of "Abiayala, Indigeneity, and Decolonial Teaching: Reflections from Turtle Island" (MLA Teaching Series).