Waïl S. Hassan is a Professor of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A specialist in modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, he is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (2003) and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (OUP, 2011).

Marie-Thérèse Abdelmessih, Cairo University
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, University of New England
Moneera al-Ghadeer, Columbia University
Rehab al-Kilani, College of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania
Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University
Haytham Bahoora, University of Colorado, Boulder
Juliet Blalack, SOAS University of London
Marilyn Booth, Oxford University
Jennifer Burns, University of Warwick
Laura Casielles, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Christina E. Civantos, University of Miami
Debbie Cox, British Library
Heba El Attar, Cleveland State University
Carol N. Fadda, Syracuse University
Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Alexa Firat, Temple University
Nijmeh Hajjar, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Walid Hamarneh, University of Richmond
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, University of Edinburgh
Michelle Hartman, McGill University
Waïl S. Hassan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Corina Lacatus, London School of Economics
Richard van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam
Henriette Louwerse, University of Sheffield
Xavier Luffin, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Douja Mamelouk, Le Moyne College
Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Yesemin Mohammad, University of Iowa
Geoffrey Nash, University of Sunderland
Laura Reeck, Allegheny College
Mohammad Mostafa Saleem, Qatar University
Elise Salem, Lebanese American University
Samah Selim, Rutgers University
Ibrahim Taha, University of Haifa
Olatunbosun Ishaq Tijani, American University of Sharjah
Mark Wagner, Louisiana State University

"[T]he Handbook provides valuable insights into an issue that is undoubtedly one of the most challenging to deal with in the history of Arab/ic literature." -- Francesca Bellino, Annali, Sezione Orientale

"Waïl Hassan's Oxford Handbook of Arabic Novelistic Traditions is a great addition to the fields of Arabic and comparative literatures. It will be a useful reference for students and more advanced scholars alike... [it] arrives to solicitously build a new, more inclusive, and more global perspective on Arabic novels. This move is more than welcome." --Journal of Arabic Literature