William Wilhartz Endowed Professor of English Language and Literature
About
KHALED MATTAWA is the author of five books of poetry, Fugitive Atlas (Graywolf, 2020), Tocqueville (New Issues Press, 2010) Amorisco (Ausable Press, 2008), Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003) and Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow Press, 1996), and a chapbook, Mare Nostrum (Sarabande Books, 2019). His fifth book of poems, Fugitive Atlas, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in October 2020.
He is also the author of Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation, a critical study of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, recently published by Syracuse University Press; and How Long Have You Been with Us: Essays on Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2016)
He has translated eleven books of contemporary Arabic poetry by Adonis, Saadi Youssef, Fadhil Al-Azzawi, Hatif Janabi, Maram Al-Massri, Joumana Haddad, Amjad Nasser, and Iman Mersal. Mattawa also has co-edited two anthologies of Arab American literature. And his is co-editor of threee anthologies of Arab American literature, Post-Gibran (Syracuse University Press, 1999), Dinarzad'd Children (University of Arkansas Press, 2004, 2008), and Beyond Memory, (University of Arkansas Press, 2020).
Mattawa has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the Academy of American Poet's Fellowship Prize, a United States Artists Fellowship, the PEN-American Center award for poetry translation, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Alfred Hodder fellowship from Princeton University, an NEA translation grant, and three Pushcart prizes. In 2016 he was award U-M's Regents Award for Public Service.
Mattawa's poems have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Best American Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies.
He has been the editor of Michigan Quarterly Review since 2018.
Prof. Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya and immigrated to the United States in his teens.
Research Interests
Primary Interests
Writing Poetry
Secondary Interests
Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Poetry, Comparative Poetics, Arab and Muslim American Literature, and Translation.
