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PD Dr Norman Saadi Nikro

Research Fellow
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

Work Experience

2009-11	Lehrbeauftragter, Institut für Englische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
2001-07	Assistant Professor, Department of English, Notre Dame University, Lebanon
1999-00	Tutor, General Education, American University of Beirut; Lebanese American University, Lebanon
1998-99	Australian Volunteer Abroad, with the Palestinian NGO MAAN, in Ramallah
1993-98	Tutor, School of Sociology, University of New South Wales; University of Western Sydney, Australia

Degrees

2012	Habilitationsschrift, The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon, submitted to the Philosophische Fakultät of the Universität Potsdam, in the Institut für Anglistik and Amerikanistik.
1998	PhD in Cultural Studies, School of Sociology, University of New South Wales:“Shifting Margins, Imaginary Journeys: Writing Migrant Experience”. Supervised by Maria Markus, Senior Lecturer. Thesis Examiners: Professor Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds; Dr. Michael Symonds, University of Western Sydney; Professor John Milfull, University of New South Wales
1993	B.A. 1st Class Honours, School of Sociology, University of New South Wales. Thesis: Habermas and Foucault: An Ethics of Intersubjectivity. Awarded the Sol Encel Prize for best Honours thesis in the School of Sociology.

Research Fellowships

Current	Research Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Project: Transforming Memories: Cultural Production and Personal/Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco
2009-10	14 month Visiting Fellow, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS)
2008	January - March, Guest Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
2000-01	Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for Behavioral Research, American University of Beirut
1993-1997	Australian Postgraduate Research Award, University of New South Wales

Publications

Monographs

1998	Shifting Margins, Imaginary Journeys: Writing Migrant Experience. PhD Dissertation
2012	The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon. Habilitationsschrift. Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Potsdam. Published with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, October 2012.

Editorial

1993-98	Founding Editor, Inklings: A Journal of Words and Images. Sydney, Australia
2008	Arab Women Writing in English. Special issue of Al Raida, Vol 118-119, February. Institute of Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University
Current	Guest Editor for Postcolonial Text. Special Issue: "Situating Postcolonial Trauma Studies". Forthcoming, 2014. http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/49143

Essays, Articles, Chapters

1996	“Proust and Kefala in Dulwich Hill”. Inklings: A Journal of Words and Images, Sydney. No 6, 12-15.
1997	“Lispector in Translation”. Inklings: A Journal of Words and Images, Sydney. No 7., 4-9.
1998	“Antigone Kefala: Translating the Migratory Self”. Southerly, Sydney. No 1, March, 151-158.
1999	“Translating Passages: Experiencing Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage”. Southerly, Sydney. No 3, June, 74-84.
1999	“Translating Passages: Experiencing Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage”. Arabic translation in Al Karmel, Ramallah. No 61, Autumn.
1999	“Madness Cannot Be Thought: Mahmoud Darwish”. Al Shuara, Ramallah. Nos 4-5, May. http://www.111101.net/Writings/Articles/saadi_nikro_01.php
2001	“The Self as Stranger: Re-Viewing The Cars That Ate Paris”. Southerly, Sydney. No 1, April, 13-17
2001	“Interminable Murmurs, Art’s Estrangement”. Published in the catalogue for the East of Somewhere, Australian-Arab art exhibition, March-April, Sydney.
2002	“Driving the Valiant with Lacan”. The Millennial Lecture Series, NDU Press, Louaize.
2002	“Packing my Library”. NDU Spirit, No 26, December, 56-57.
2003	“Elias Khoury: Approaching Time’s Forgetfulness”. In Lorraina Pinnell (ed) Interruptions: Essays in the Poetics/Politics of Space. Eastern Mediterranean University Press, North Cyprus.
2005	“Writing Lebanese Diaspora”. In Paul Tabar (ed) Lebanese Diaspora: History, Racism, and Belonging. LAU Press, Beirut, 15-29.
2006	“David Malouf: Exploring Imperial Textuality”. Postcolonial Text, Vol 2, No 2. May. http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/viewArticle/371/811
2008	“Introduction” to Arab Women Writing in English. Al Raida, Vol 118-119, February, 4-6.
2008	“Freud, Give Yourself Up To Your Gathering”. In Analytic Lectures on Freud: The Father of Psychoanalysis. NDU Press, Louaize.
2010	“Memory in a Paratactic Register: Abbas El-Zein’s Leave to Remain: A Memoir”. Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1. http://southerlyjournal.com.au/long-paddock/70-1/saadi-nikro/
2010	“Between Anaesthesia and Analepsia: Transformational Aesthetics in Jakob Roepke’s Compact Collages”. In Plurale: Zeitschrift für Denkversionen, Vol. 9, 49-80.
2010	“Seductive Identifications: Parody and Power in Loubna Haikal’s Seducing Mr Maclean”. In Paul Tabar (ed) Politics, Culture and Lebanese Diaspora. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, 348-361.
2011	“Disrupting Dismemory: The Memoir of Jean Said Makdisi”. Published in the Working Paper series on the website of Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient: http://www.zmo.de/publikationen/WorkingPapers/nikro_2011.pdf
2013	“Antigone Kefala: Translating the Migratory Self”. Forthcoming in Helen Nickas and Vrasidas Karalis (eds), Antigone Kefala: A Writer’s Journey. Owl Publishing, Melbourne.
2013	“The Arab Australian Novel Between Diasporic and Multicultural Literary Inventiveness”. Forthcoming in Nouri Gana (ed) The Rise of the Arab Novel in English. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Reviews

2001	William D. Hart, Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture. Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, Heft 13, February.
2001	Ghassan Hage, White Nation: Fantasies of Supremacy in a Multicultural Society. In The UTS Review, August, Sydney.
2006	S. Poynting, G. Noble, T. Tabar, J. Collins, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other. In Journal of Intercultural Studies, March.
2009	Jad El Hage, The Myrtle Tree. In Southerly, Vol. 69, No. 1. http://southerlyjournal.com.au/long-paddock/69-1/saadi-nikro/
2010	“Out-Posting Edward Said”. William V. Spanos, The Legacy of Edward W. Said. In Postcolonial Text, Vol. 5. No 4. 2009. http://journals.sfu.ca/pocol/index.php/pct/article/view/1121/1030
2013	P. Tabar, G. Noble, S. Poynting, On Being Lebanese in Australia. Forthcoming in Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol 33, (5).
2013	Russell West-Pavlov, Temporalities. In the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Volume 13, No. 1. http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/ jasal/article/view/2960/3605
2013	S. Milich, F. Pannewick & L. Tramontini (eds) Conflicting Narratives: War, Trauma and Memory in Iraqi Culture. Forthcoming in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung.

Reports

2012	With Laura Menin, “Workshop Report: Transforming Memories: Cultural Production and Personal/Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco” in H-Saz-u-kult, October 2012.