Department of Comparative Literatureharvard Summer School

Sandra Naddaff

Department of Comparative LiteratureHarvard Summer School

Harvard UniversityHarvard University

16 Quincy Street51 Brattle Street

Cambridge, MA 02138Cambridge, MA 02138

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Professional Experience

Dean, Harvard Summer School, Harvard University, 2013-

Oversees all academic programs and administrative units of the Harvard Summer School, comprising over 6300 students and 350 courses, including the General Program, the Secondary School Program, the Pre-College Program, the Study Abroad Program, and the Crimson Summer Academy. Supervises the academic planning, curriculum development, and maintenance of academic standards for the Summer School. Manages the administrative staff. Consults with FAS department Chairs on curriculum.Represents the Summer School on FAS committees and in negotiations with other Harvard faculties. Chairs the Harvard Summer School Administrative Board.

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature,

HarvardUniversity, 1992-

Directs the undergraduate program in Comparative Literature (formerly the

Literature concentration). Oversees and advisesthe programs of all

undergraduates in the department. Developscurriculum and

pedagogy.Formulates policy related to programand curriculum.Supervises

the teaching activities of the Tutorial Board.Acting Chair, 2001-02.

Senior Lecturer, Literature and Comparative Literature, Harvard

University, 1992-

Instructor in both undergraduate and graduate courses in Comparative

Literature.Courses taught include 1001 Nights: Adaptations,

Transformations, andTranslations; The Arab-American Experience in Film,

Fiction, and Popular Culture;On Translation; Literature and Music; Narrative

Forms; Voyaging to the Orient: TheQuestion of the Other.

Director, Freshman Seminar Program, Harvard University, 2004-14

Oversaw the development and management of over 130 seminars designed for first-year students at Harvard College. Solicited instructors throughout the University and helped develop seminar proposals. Developed curriculum and pedagogy. Formulated academic and administrative policy. Managed office staff.

Master, Mather House, Harvard University, 1993-2010

Oversaw the development and management of one of Harvard’s undergraduate residential houses of over four hundred students. Managed a staff of approximately five-dozen resident and non-resident advisors as well as the House administrative and custodial personnel. Advised students and staff on academic, professional, and personal issues. Planned and participated in various House events. Oversaw facilities maintenance.

Associate Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature,

Harvard University; Head Tutor, Literature, Harvard University,

1989-92

Assistant Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature,

1985-89

Faculty, Standing Committee on Special Concentrations, Harvard

University, 1998-

Affiliated Faculty, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University,

1989-

Academic Service, Harvard University

Advisory Committee to select the College Dean, 2008

Allston Committee, Undergraduate Life Task Force, 2004-2006

Alpha-Iota Phi Beta Kappa (Harvard/Radcliffe Chapter), President, 1997-99;

Vice-President, 1995-97

Arts First Planning Group, 2000-2005

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Steering Committee 2013-

Committee on Counseling and Advising, 2004-2008

Committee on Undergraduate Education, 1996-99

Committee on Writing and Speaking, 2006-2008

Curricular Review, Working Group on General Education, 2003-2004

Currier House Review Committee, Chair, 2014

Executive Committee, Council of Masters, 1998-2010

Executive Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, 2009-

Faculty Council, 1996-99

Faculty Advisor: BOND; The Fallen Angels;The Gamut;

TheHarvard-Radcliffe Friends of the Red Cross; Middle-East Dance;

FAS Standing Committee on Freshman Seminars, 2004-2014

FAS Standing Committee on Public Service, 1997-2003

Gardner Fellowship Committee, 2002

Harvard Foundation on Race and Intercultural Relations, 2002-

Hoopes Prize Committee

President’s Innovation Fund for International Experiences, 2013-

President’s Public Service Fund, 1996-2003

Michael Rockefeller Fellowship Committee, 1992, 2010-

Senior Master, Council of Masters, 2003-2010

Sohier Prize Committee, 1983-present

Staff Working Group Committee, Chair, 2009-10

Student Voice Task Force, 2012

Trustman Fellowship Committee, 1989-92

Undergraduate Council Review Committee, 2009-10

Publications and Presentations

Books:

Arabesque: Narrative Structure and the Aesthetics of Repetition in the 1001

Nights, Northwestern University Press, 1991.

Articles:

“The Thousand and One Nights as World Literature,” in The Routledge

Companion to World Literature, London: Routledge, 2011

Introduction to The Advocate’s Translation issue, winter, 2008

“1001 Nights” in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, New York: Charles Scribners’

Sons, 1989.

“Mirrored Images: Reverse Orientalism and Rifa’a al-Tahtawi” in Alif:Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 6, spring, 1986.

“Magic Time: Narrative Repetition in the 1001 Nights” in Mundus

Arabicus: The1001Nights: Critical Essays and Annotated Bibliography,Cambridge, 1985.

Talks/Presentations/Seminars:

“The Thousand and One Nights:Sources, Transformations and

Relationship withLiterature, the Arts and theSciences, Co-

Organizerand Panel Chair, April, 2015.

“Arabic Literature in Exile,”Panel Chair: “Middle Eastern Literatures in the 21st-Century,”April, 2014.

“New Frontiers in Women Writing from the Arabian Peninsula,

Participant,November, 2014.

“Rethinking Translation” co-Chair, Mahindra Humanities Seminar, Harvard

University, 2011-present

“The Thousand and One Nights,” Participant,Invitation to World Literature, PBS television series, 2010.

Alf Laylah, Harvard University, Conference Participant, April, 2005.

1001 Nights, Broadcast Interview with the Canadian Broadcasting

Corporation, Summer,2001.

“Modern Literary Theory and Its Application to Classical Arabic

Literature”,ResearchWorkshop, Co-Director,1994-95.

“1001Nights and Islamic Culture,”Lecture, Harvard University, April 1991.

Islamic TravelWorkshop, Participant, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard

University, April, 1991.

“Teaching and Intimacy,”Discussant, Harvard University, March 1990

“Gender and the 1001 Nights,”Lecture, Boston Area Middle East FacultySeminar, Harvard University, November 1989.
“Translators of the 1001 Nights,”Lecture, Cross-Cultural Poetics

Colloquium, Harvard University, February 1988.

Grants and Awards

Harvard Foundation, Distinguished Faculty of the Year, 2010

Lurcy Junior Faculty Grant, Harvard University, 1990-91

Palmer Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 1986-87

Bowdoin Prize, Harvard University, 1983

Sheldon Travelling Fellowship, Harvard University, 1981-82

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, 1979-90

Grant-in-Aid, Harvard University, 1979-81

National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1977-78

Education

Harvard University, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1983

Harvard University, M.A., Comparative Literature, 1978

American University in Cairo, graduate work in Islamic History, 1975-77

Harvard University, A.B., magna cum laude, English Literature, 1975