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). 

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: 21^st Century Literature 
• HON 401: Somali American Literature, Art, and Music