Safi Mahmoud Mahfouz
The University of Jordan, Aqaba, Jordan
Prof. Dr. Safi Mahmoud Mahfouz is Professor of American literature drama and theatre studies, comparative literature, and Global Shakespeare in the Department of English Langauge and Literature at the University of Jordan, Aqaba. He is a former Fulbright postdoctoral visiting scholar and a fellow at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, the Graduate Center of The City University of New York (2012/2014). He is the co-editor and co-translator of Theatre from Medieval Cairo: The Ibn Dāniyāl Trilogy. (Safi Mahfouz and Marvin Carlson) 2013 and Four Plays from Syria- Sa’dallah Wannous (Marvin Carlson and Safi Mahfouz) 2014. Both books were published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center- The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. His research and teaching interests cover a wide range of topics including American literature, American canonical drama, American ethnic theatres, Arabic drama in translation, literary translation, Middle Eastern literatures, world literature, comparative literature, Global Shakespeare, literary theory, contemporary poetics, postmodernism, ethnicity, diaspora, and post-colonialism. His articles were published in several international journals in the United States, Canada, and the UK such as Theatre Research International, New Theatre Quarterly, The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (RMMLA), The Midwest Quarterly, Neophilologus, Modern Drama, Journal of Semitic Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing and elsewhere. He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of several international journals such as Arab Stages published by The City University of New York, SAGE Open, Cogent Arts and Humanities and other international journals.