AMMAR NAJI

• Middle East Studies Association
• Modern Language Association of America
• American Comparative Literature Association
• Arab American Studies Association
• Postcolonial Studies Association

• 2022, "Rethinking Diasporas", MLA Annual Convention, Washington, DC
• 2021, "Challenges and Possibilities of Researching Yemeni Americans", Middle East Studies Convention
• 2021, "Re-conceiving Arab Humanism in a Posthuman World", ACLA 2021 Seminar, April 9-11
• 2020, "Being Human in Contemporary Arab Writing", MLA in Seattle, January 9-12
• 2020, "Je Suis Noir et Amazigh: The Maghreb's Berber Question from the Margins to the Center", MLA in Seattle, January 9-12
• 2018, "Race and the New Configurations of Extraterritorial Exile in North Africa", Middle East Studies Convention, San Antonio, Texas, November 15-18
• 2018, "Instigating Insecurity: The Presidential Executive Order and Muslim American Activism", MLA Convention, New York
• 2017, "Rethinking Post-colonialism through the Lenses of Modern Middle Eastern Migratory Formations", Middle East Studies Convention, Washington, DC
• 2015, "I'm Just a Broad Person: The Earth is Mine", The Jaipur Literature Festival, University of Colorado - Boulder
• 2015, "Diasporic and fractured inside the Homeland: Black Yemenis and the Power of Exilic Imagination in Ali Al-Muqri's Taste Black...Smell Black", American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Seattle

• 2022, "Disinformation in times of Crisis: The Case of Yemen", Whistling at the Fake, NATO's Public Diplomacy Division and Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• 2018, "Crisis in Yemen: Should the U.S. Break from Saudi Arabia over Its War Crimes", Panel organized by the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Colorado
• 2018, "Forming an Islamic Identity: Between East and West", The Muslim Day Symposium: Islam and Diversity, Colorado College
• 2017, "The Sultan and the Saint" Documentary, Panelist, Departments of Religion and Political Science, Colorado College
• 2016, "Faith, Violence, the Promise of Dialogue", Panel organized by the Center for Religious Diversity & Public Life, University of Colorado- Colorado Springs

• 2021, The Catalyst: the independent student newspaper of Colorado College, 03/11/21, https://thecatalystnews.com/2021/03/11/comparative-literature-departmentlaunches-new-world-literature-minor/
• 2018, Interviewed by KGNU Radio Station in Boulder, CO. Yemen and the War Crisis, 12/10/18, https://kgnu.org/shows.
• 2017, Interviewed by The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Ramadan Connects Colorado Springs' Diverse Islamic Community, 06/10/17, http://gazette.com/ramadan-connects-colorado-springs-diverse-islamic-community/article/1604897
• 2016, Interviewed by KRDO TV Station (Pikes Peak Television Inc., Colorado Springs, CO), Local Muslims react to Orlando attacks, 06/12/16, http://www.krdo.com/news/local-muslims-react-to-orlando-attacks/40026956
• 2012, Interviewed by Khalil Bendib, Berkeley Radio: Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, 03/14/12, https://kpfa.org/episode/78715/
• 2004, Interviewed by Nevada @ News, Literature and the Environment Reading Group, University of Nevada, Reno, 09/30/04, http://www.unr.edu/news

• Colorado College, Committee member, General Education and Assessment Review, 08/01/24, Advisor, the minor in Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, 08/01/18, 05/31/22, Chair, Academic Events Committee, 08/01/19, 05/31/21, Committee member, The Colorado Springs Undergraduate Research Forum, 08/01/17, 05/31/18, Committee member, English Search Committee, Postcolonial Literature Position, 08/01/17, 05/31/18, Affiliate Faculty, Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies, 08/01/15, Committee member, Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, 08/01/15
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, English 100 Course Reader Committee, 08/01/11, 05/31/14, Co-organizer, Postcolonial Theory Group, 08/01/10, 05/31/11, Speaker for Friday Sermons (khutba), The Islamic Center of Madison, Wisconsin, 08/01/11, 05/31/15
• University of North Dakota, President, English Graduate Student Association, 08/01/06, 05/31/08, Founder, Muslim Student Association, 08/01/07, 05/31/09, Founder, the Literary Theory Group, 08/01/07, 05/31/08, Moderator, Sixteenth Northern Plains Conference, 08/01/07, Co-organizer, English Graduate Students Convocation: Restoring the Path: Envisioning the Humanities in the 21st Century, 08/01/07

• MLA Executive Committee Forum, Arabic Literature, 2021-2023
• Chair, MLA Forum, Global Arab and Arab American, 2021-2022
• Reviewer, the Journal of Arabic Literature, 2021-
• Reviewer, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2020-

Decentering Diaspora: New Configurations of Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East and North Africa, in progress, Popularizing Islam: Revolt, Youth Activism and Regional Solidarity, in progress, "The Unspoken Agenda of Houthi Digital Poetry in Yemen's Current War Crisis", Arab Media & Society - special issue (Media & Peace), Spring 2022, "Stateless Confederations: Revolutions of Islamic Consciousness in the Arab World", Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World, Abir Hamdar and Lindsey Moore, Routledge, 253-269, 2016, "Literary Revolutions and the Power of Diasporic Consciousness in the Arab World", Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter, 10, 12-13, 2012, "Quoting God: Liberating Gender and the Sacredness of 'Postcolonial Theology'", The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 15.2, 95-103, 2008, Patrick Brantlinger. Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies., Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 13.4, 673-74, 2011, Richard Lane. The Postcolonial Novel: Themes in 20th Century Literature & Culture., Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 39.4, 153-56, 2008

Available upon request

Native Fluency (with various dialects), Fluent (reading, writing and speaking), Intermediate level (reading), Basic level (reading)

• 2021, Faculty Student Collaborative Research Grant, Vice Provost Office-Colorado College
• 2021, Faculty Research Development Blocks for AY 2021-2022, Colorado College
• 2021, The Crown Center Manuscript Grant - Summer 2021, Colorado College
• 2019, The Benezet Summer Research Grant, Colorado College
• 2016, The Humanities Research and Development Grant, Colorado College
• 2013, Andrew Mellon Dissertation Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2012, Nominated as a Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University
• 2012, Chancellor's Distinguished Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2012, Summer Dissertation Fellowship Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2008, The Squires Award, English Department, University of North Dakota
• 2006, Research Assistantship Fund, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno
• 2005, Research Assistantship Fund, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno
• 2004, Institute of International Education, University of South Carolina, Columbia
• 2004, Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Commission, U.S. Department of State
• 2002, Arab Universities Association, Summer Fellowship, University of Baghdad, Iraq
• 2002, Award for the best performance of Shakespearean plays, The British Council and Sana'a University, Republic of Yemen

• Anglophone-Arab and Modern Arabic literatures
• Diaspora Studies
• Postcolonial Theory
• New Media Studies
• Comparative and World Literatures
• Ethnic Writing from the Middle East and North Africa
• Migration and Border-Thinking
• Afro-Arab Writing
• Travel Writing
• Translation