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Jeffrey Sacks Jeff Sacks was educated in Cairo, Beirut, Ann Arbor, Austin, and New York, where he earned his Ph.D. at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. His research and teaching interests include comparative literature; Arabic literature and literary studies; 11th-14th century European and Arabic philosophy; postcolonial studies; literary theory and criticism; psychoanalysis; and loss. His work has appeared in venues including Diacritics, the Arab Studies Journal, and the New Yorker, and his publications include a translation of a volume of poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (New York: Archipelago, 2006). Professor Sacks is completing a book which addresses the relations among literature, colonialism, and loss, entitled Refusals of Mourning, and is working on another, which traces figures of indebtedness in literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, entitled Others: A History of Debt. Courses offered by Professor Sacks include: "Palestine/Algeria" (Spring 2008, Fall 2010); "Introduction to Arabic Literatures and Cultures" (Fall 2008, 2010); "Modern Arabic Poetry in a Multilingual Frame" (Fall 2008); "Loss" (Winter 2009); "Masterworks of World Literature" (Spring 2008, 2009); "Literature, Language, Relation" (Fall 2009); "Jews and Arabs" (Fall 2009); and, "Introduction to Arabic Philosophy" (Spring 2010).
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