Professor; Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor
kmattawa@umich.edu
Office Information:
3240 Angell Hall
Fields of study: Postcolonial Studies; Twentieth Century American; Creative Writing; Poetry and Poetics
phone: 734-764-9208
American Culture
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Duke University, 2009 MFA, Indiana University, 1994
About
Professor Mattawa currently teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of five books of poetry, and a critical study of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Mattawa has coedited two anthologies of Arab American literature and translated several volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry. His awards include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Affiliations
- Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC), Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)
- Faculty: Department of English Language and Literature