Danielle Haque, Ph.D.
Professor | English Literature & English Studies
507-389-5261
danielle.haque@mnsu.edu
Education:
- Ph.D. in English from Cornell University
- M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- M.Div. from Yale Divinity School
Recent Publications:
Book
Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature. Syracuse University Press. Critical Arab American Studies Series (2019).
Refereed Journal Articles
- “Mohja Kahf.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam in North America. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming, 2022).
- “Blessed and Banned: Surveillance and Refusal in Somali Diasporic Art & Literature”
- Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies. 9.1 (2021).
- “Collective Care and Human Rights Cinema: Musa Syeed’s A Stray and Somali Minneapolis” American Quarterly Studies. (73.4 2021).
- “From the Beqaa Valley to Deep Valley: Arab American Childhood & US Orientalism in Children’s Literature.”Research in Diversity and Youth Literature. Summer/Winter 3.1 & 3.2 (2020).
- “Water Occupation & the Ecology of Arab American Literature.” MELUS (Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States). Vol. 44, Issue 1, Spring 2019, 65-86.
- Republished as: “Water Occupation & the Ecology of Arab American Literature.” Sajjilu SWANA: A Reader in Arab American Studies. Edited by Louise Cainkar, Pauline Homsi Vinson, and Amira Jarmakani. Syracuse University Press. Critical Arab American Studies Series, 2022.
- “The Postsecular Turn and Muslim American Literature.” American Literature. Vol. 86. No. 4 (December 2014).
Recent Courses Taught:
- ENG 635: Humans, Nonhumans, Posthumans
- ENG 618: Arab American Literature
- ENG 611: American Environmental Literature 1865-present
- ENG 435: Global Literature and the Environment
- ENG 433W: Human Rights and Global Literature
- ENG 410: 21st Century Literature
- HON 401: Somali American Literature, Art, and Music