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 co-edited How My Days Passed: An Armenian Picaresque by Hagop Der Balian and has published in journals such as Middle Eastern Literatures, Comparative Literature Studies, and Public Culture.

Paula Karger is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Her research examines cultural exchanges among Arabic, Spanish, and Yucatec Mayan traditions in medieval and colonial contexts. She is co-author of Abiayala, Indigeneity, and Decolonial Teaching: Reflections from Turtle Island, to appear in the MLA Teaching Series textbook Teaching Indigenous Studies in and of Latin America.