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Suleiman Hodali

Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Literature, AY 25-26 and AY 26-27
Ph.D., UCLA, Comparative Literature
B.A., UCLA, Comparative Literature; Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Suleiman Hodali is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and was previously a 2025-26 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside. He received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from UCLA.

His research and teaching are situated at the junction of several different fields, including eighteenth and nineteenth century studies, British Romanticism, modern Arabic literature and culture, literary and critical theory, translation theory, the history of ideas, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism. 
Recent and forthcoming writings appear in such publications as Studies in Romanticism, South Atlantic Quarterly, Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, and Ebb Magazine. 
He is presently completing his first book project, tentatively titled, New Jerusalems, Modern Crusades: Holy Lands in the Imaginative Geography of Empire.