Received two M.A. Degress from the University of Washington, one in Comparative Literature and the other in Near East Languages and Civilization. She has also earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. Dr. Kudsieh is fluent in Arabic and Spanish and has worked with a wide range of medieval texts in Old French, Spanish, Latin, Arabic and Hebrew. Dr. Kudsieh’s research interests include comparative and world literature, cultural encounters between the East (Near East and South Asia) and the West, travel accounts, literary and postcolonial theory, cinema studies and adaptation theory. Dr. Kudsieh has published several articles, encyclopedia entries, book reviews and chapters in books to be published later this year.
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