Carol W.N. Fadda grew up in Beirut, Lebanon where she earned her B.A. and M.A. from the American University of Beirut. She graduated from Purdue University in 2006 with a Ph.D. in contemporary American Literature. Her research interests in Arab and Muslim American Studies, American Studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and transnational studies interrogate structures, logics, and manifestations of US empire, militarization, and exceptionalism that determine the lives of racialized communities in the US and abroad. Her first book��Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging��(NYU Press, 2014) engages an array of Arab American literary and visual texts from the 1990s onwards that contest negative representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US. In it, Fadda emphasizes feminist, anti-assimilationist, and transnational modes of Arab American and Muslim American belonging that contest the conceived boundaries of the US nation-state and transform hegemonic forms of national membership and citizenship.

Her current book-length project,��Carceral States and Dissident��Citizenships: Narratives of Resistance��in��an��Age��of��“T������ǰ�”��highlights US global carceral practices by focusing on Arab and Muslim narratives and testimonials of incarceration and confinement coming out of the “War on Terror.” Her study extends to legal and historical documents, literary texts, visual documentation, and political discourse emerging from secret and extra-legal incarceration sites including the Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons.

She is the recipient of an NEH summer grant, a Future of Minority Studies Fellowship, and a ���ϲ����� Humanities Center Fellowship. Her essays on gender, race, ethnicity, war trauma, cross-racial solidarities, and transnational belonging have appeared in a variety of journals and edited collections.

She serves as the editor of the����at ���ϲ����� Press.

William Robert teaches and writes about intersections and interactions of religion and performance. He is especially interested in limit-experiences and limit-crossings as performances of religion. He pays particular attention to mysticism, sexuality, and animality as sites where these experiences and crossings happen, focusing on case studies in ancient Greek and medieval Christian contexts. And he considers how such performances of religion can affect how we figure and refigure religion. To do so, he combines historical, textual, philosophical, and corporeal approaches to studying religion with queer theory and performance studies.

PhD Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005 MA Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1999 MA Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1997 BA Philosophy and Literature, Davidson College, 1996

Associate Professor, Department of Religion, ���ϲ�����, 2016–present��Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Programs in LGBTQ Studies and in Medieval and Renaissance Studies��Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, ���ϲ�����, 2011–16 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, ���ϲ�����, 2010–11 Humanities Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Department of Religion, ���ϲ�����, 2006–10 Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Louisiana State University, 2005–06