| Jonas Elbousty | |
| Occupation: | Literary translator, writer, academic |
| Awards: | Ordre des Palmes académiques |
| Education: | Columbia University (MPhil, PhD) |
| Workplaces: | Yale University |
| Website: | https://jonaselbousty.com |
Jonas Elbousty is an academic, writer, and literary translator. He is a scholar of the Middle East, specializing in Arabic literature and Postcolonial literature. He teaches in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University.[1] His roles have included a seven-year period as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is now the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Council on Middle East Studies and oversees the Yale Summer Study Abroad Program in Morocco.[2]
Elbousty holds an MPhil and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
His teaching experience spans several institutions, including Al Akhawayn University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Columbia University. He has also been a visiting faculty member at various universities, such as Stockholm University.
He has given lectures at numerous universities, including Stockholm University, University of Lisbon, University of Copenhagen, Bochum University, Zhejiang University, French: [[Université libre de Bruxelles]] (ULB; 'Free University of Brussels'), Dunărea de Jos University. His teaching and research focus primarily on North African and Middle Eastern Studies, particularly literary narratives. His research interests encompass theories of world literature, Eurocentrism, issues of literary translation, postcolonial literature, modern Arabic fiction, Maghrebi Studies, and the life and works of Mohamed Choukri.
Elbousty is also associated with several research institutions. He is an associate researcher at the Center for Cultural and Multidisciplinary Studies at the Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania,[3] the Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA), the Comparative Humanities and Applied Language Studies (CHALS Lab) at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco, and the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Center (HSSRC) at Ajman University, United Arab Emirates.[4]
Elbousty, Jonas (2024). Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives: Hunger in Eden, Routledge Press (with Roger Allen). ISBN 9781032741819
Elbousty, Jonas (2024). Aswat Muʿasira, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. ISBN 9781647122799
Elbousty, Jonas (2022). Media Arabic, Routledge Press. ISBN 9781032044460
Elbousty, Jonas (2016). Advanced Arabic Literary Reader, Routledge Press (with Muhammad Aziz). ISBN 9781138828698
Elbousty, Jonas (2014).Vitality And Dynamism" Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco's Literary Tradition, Leiden University Press (with Kristin Bratt and Devin Stewart. ISBN 9789087282134
Translations
Mohamed Choukri. Faces, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2024. ISBN 9781647124779
Akram Alkatreb. The Screams of War. Seagull Books, 2024. ISBN 9781803093505
Mohamed Choukri. Tales of Tangier, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. ISBN 9780300251357