Hoda El Shakry is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature, visual culture, and criticism from North Africa and the Middle East—with an emphasis on the relationship between aesthetics and ethics. Her book The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb (Fordham University Press 2020) was awarded the MLA’s 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies and the ACLA’s 2018 Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. El Shakry’s current book project, Printed Matter(s), is a comparative critical history of twentieth-century Maghrebi cultural journals. Her research has appeared in or is forthcoming from PMLA, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Expressions Maghrébines, ALIF: A Journal of Comparative Poetics, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Journal of Arabic Literature, and GLQ. She serves on the editorial board of Middle Eastern Literatures, the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Modern Literature, and the advisory board of the African Feminist Initiative.