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Dima Ayoub is an assistant professor of Arabic and C.V. Starr Junior Faculty Fellow in International Studies at Middlebury College where she was also the former director of the Middle East studies program. Her book manuscript Paratext and Power: Modern Arabic Literature in Translation examines the history of Arabic to English translation since WWII through the technology of paratexts. Her work brings together translation studies, gender and postcolonial studies, and digital humanities. Parallel to her book project, she created a growing digital archive of modern Arabic literary paratexts in English, French, German and Spanish translation. Her most recent publications appeared in the Journal of Translation Studies, the Journal of Arabic Literature, Middle Eastern Literatures and in the edited collection, Multilingual Literature as World Literature with Bloomsbury.
