Danielle Haque, Ph.D.

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). Review: Tim Marr, “Mirage to Miraj: Opening Muslimerican Latitudes in Americanist Scholarship,” American Literary History (32. 3, Fall 2020).
• Arab American Studies: A Field in Motion. Co-editor with Waleed Mahdi. Forthcoming, University of Texas Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

• “Solidarity Across Shelves: Children’s Literature, Archives, and the Hijabi Librarians’ Collective,” co-authored with Mahasin Aleem and Ariana Hussain. MELA Notes Journal (Middle East Librarians Association). No. 97 (2025): 152–78. 
• "‘The skin that keeps the law in place’: Empathy and Borders in the Novels of Mohsin Hamid and China Miéville." Journal of World Literature. 10.3 (2025): 409-426.
• “Water is Life: Teaching Climate in the Classroom” Climate Literacy in Education. Winter 2.2 (2024). 
• Special Issue: Water as Conflict and Water as Commons.
• “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.
• “The Postsecular Turn and Muslim American Literature.” American Literature. Vol. 86. 2014.

Chapters in Edited Collections

• “I wrote it on water: Arab American Literature and the Blue Humanities.” The Companion to Arab American Literature, edited by Carol Fadda, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Pauline Kaldas. Forthcoming from Routledge Press.
• “Defeated, I read Beloved: Toni Morrison’s Influence on Arab American Women’s Writing.” Mapping a Transnational Toni Morrison: Perspectives from the Arab World. Edited by Feroza Jussawalla and Doaa Omran. Forthcoming from University Press of Mississippi, 2026.
• “Representations of Muslims in Youth Literature.” Handbook of Research on Diversity in Children's and Young Adult Literature. Forthcoming from Routledge Press, 2026.
• Republished: “The skin that keeps the law in place: Empathy & Borders in the Work of China Mieville and Mohsin Hamid.” Constructing the Other: Empathy and the Ethics of Imagining Difference in Literature. Edited by Shailen Mishra and Arnab Roy. Forthcoming from Brill Press, 2026.
• “‘Far East Mingles with Woolly West’: The Bedouin Cowboys of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.” Buffalo Bill Centennial Anthology. Edited by Doug Seefeldt & Jeremy Johnson. Forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press, 2026.
• “Arab Performers in the Wild West.” Near East to Far West: Fantasies of French and American Colonialism. Edited by Jennifer R. Henneman. Denver Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2023.Winner of the Joan Patterson Kerr Award for Best Illustrated Book on the History of the American West, awarded by the Western History Association, 2024.
• “Religion and Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.” A Companion to the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Edited by Gary Totten. Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2023.
• Republished: “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. Honorable mention, The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award, Arab American National Museum Book Awards, 2023.
• “Horrific Reproductions: Pathology and Gender in Koji Suzuki’s Ring Trilogy.” The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring.” Ed. Kristen Lacefield. (Ashgate Publishing, 2010). 

Reference Essays (Peer-reviewed)

• “Mohja Kahf.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press, 2023.
• “Sandra Cisneros.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer. Oxford University Press, 2019. 
• “Naomi Shihab Nye and Transnational Poetics.” 20th and 21st Centuries in American Literature. Ed. Mary Pat Brady. Gale, 2017.
• “Zen and the Art of Poetry: Jane Hirshfield and Joy Harjo.” 20th and 21st Centuries in American Literature.  Ed. Mary Pat Brady. Gale, 2017.
• “Harlem Renaissance: Poetry.” Co-author, Jim Worthy. 20th and 21st Centuries in American Literature. Ed. Mary Pat Brady. Gale, 2017.
• “Francisco Goldman, ‘The Wave.’” Teaching Guide to the 7th Edition of the Heath Anthology of American Literature. Cengage, 2013.    
• “Manuel Muñoz, ‘Bring Brang Brung’.” Teaching Guide to the 7th Edition of the Heath Anthology of American Literature. Cengage, 2013.

Book Reviews

• Review of Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence by Maxamed Abumaye (University of California Press, 2025).  In American Religion 7.2 (2026).
• Review of Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation by 
• Waleed Mahdi (Syracuse University Press, 2020). In Journal of Religion and Film (October 2021).
• Review of Gibran, Rihany, & Naimy: East-West Interactions in Early Twentieth Century Arab 
• Literature by Aida Imangulieva (Inner Farne Press, 2010).  In Journal of Arabic Literature 41:3 (2010): 324-326.

Public Scholarship, Interviews, and Media 

• “Solastaglia: Sadness Upon the Assault of Our Natural World.” The Markaz Review. Jan 15, 2021. 
• “Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature” on the American Academy of Religion’s podcast New Books in Islamic Studies, hosted by Kristian Peterson.  October 2020. 
•  “New Texts Out Now: Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature” in Jadaliyya, the ezine of the Arab Studies Institute, November 11, 2019.
• “Arab Performers in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.” Points West. Buffalo Bill Center of the West Museum Magazine. (Summer 2018). 

Recent Courses Taught

• ENG 651: Bibliography & Research 
• ENG 635: Humans, Nonhumans, Posthumans
• ENG 635: Islam & Global Literature
• ENG 618: Arab American Literature
• ENG 611: American Environmental Literature 1865-present
• ENG 441: Literary Theory: The Oceanic Humanities
• ENG 435: Global Literature & the Environment
• ENG 433W: Human Rights & Global Literature
• ENG 410: 21st Century Literature
• ENG 275W: Introduction to Literary Studies
• ENG 214: Environmental Humanities
• ENG 110: Introduction to Literature
• HON 401: Somali American Literature, Art, and Music
• HUM 281: Islam & the Humanities
• FILM 101: Film Appreciation