Paul Jahshan owes his alma mater, the School of American and Canadian Studies at Nottingham University, a lifelong—and still growing—passion for critical theory. Within the general boundaries of the postmodernist/poststructuralist universe, he has been interested in such areas as textuality, deconstruction, the rise and development of detective fiction, European dada and surrealism, the contemporary American novel, and the new ethos of the hybrid creation at the beginning of the third millennium, homo cyberneticus. His latest book, Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth, places the emergent cyber-human in close relation with the development of “New Technologies” of reading and writing and the resurgence of the mythical imaginary as mainly seen in American and Canadian literature. Jahshan has recently started investigating approaches to the nascent field of Arab-American studies, and is searching for ways to put his current interests to more Middle Eastern uses.
Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Nottingham, U.K., 2000
M.A. in English Language and Literature, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 1991
B.A. in English Language and Literature, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 1988
Books
Jahshan, P. (2011) 100 Years of Selected Writings on Ameen Rihani’s The Book of Khalid, Editor. Washington D.C.: Platform International.
Jahshan, P. (2007) Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth. New York: Peter Lang.
Jahshan, P. (2005) Ameen Rihani, The Heart of Lebanon, rev. tr. Henry Melki. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press.
Jahshan, P. (2004) Charles Corm, The Sacred Mountain, rev. tr. Carol-Ann Goff-Kfouri. Beirut: Notre Dame University Press.
Jahshan, P. (2001) Henry Miller and the Surrealist Discourse of Excess: A Post-Structuralist Reading. New York: Peter Lang.
Chapters in Books
Jahshan, P. (2011) 100 Years of Selected Writings on Ameen Rihani’s The Book of Khalid, Introduction. Washington D.C.: Platform International, pp. 1-14.
Jahshan, P. (2006) Cyberspace: (Im)porting (In)fusion Theory, in (In)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits: (In)fusioning a Few Indian English Novels, Ranjan Ghosh, ed. Lanham: University Press of America, pp. 57–72.
Jahshan, P. (2004) Su’ad al-Sabbah and the Space of Writing,” in Kasa’id Hobb: Critical Studies in Arabic and English. Beirut: An-Noor Publications, pp. 59–81.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Jahshan, P. (2010) Dark Margins: Invisibility and Obscenity in Thomas Pynchon’s V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow. Transatlantica: American Studies Journal, 2010:1
Jahshan, P. (2008) From Man of the Crowd to Cybernaut: Edgar Allan Poe's Transatlantic Journey and Back. The European Journal of American Studies, 2008:2
Jahshan, P. (2005) Edward Said Meets Ameen Rihani: Lebanon’s Forgotten Orientalism. The Arab World Geographer, 8:1–2 (Spring-Summer), pp. 16–31.
Jahshan, P. (2003). Paul Auster’s Specters. Journal of American Studies, Cambridge UP, 37:3, pp. 1–17.
Jahshan, P. (2002) The Deferred Voice in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The Edgar Allan Poe Review, 3:2, pp. 78–91.
Published and refereed Conference Proceedings
Jahshan, P. (2008) Secularism and Freethought in the Middle East: The American Model. Liberty and Justice: America and the Middle East, CASAR (Center for American Studies and Research). Beirut: American University of Beirut.
Jahshan, P. (2006) Cyberspace: (Im)porting (In)fusion Theory, in (In)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits: (In)fusioning a Few Indian English Novels, Ranjan Ghosh, ed. Lanham: University Press of America, pp. 57–72.
Jahshan, P. (2005) Edward Said Meets Ameen Rihani: Lebanon’s Forgotten Orientalism. America in the Middle East / The Middle East in America, CASAR (Center for American Studies and Research). Beirut: American University of Beirut, December 18–21.
Jahshan, P. (2004) American Studies and the Arab University: The Challenges of Contemporary Critical Theory. American Studies Regional Conference (The Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt), Developing American Studies at Arab Universities: Resources, Research and Outreach. Cairo: January 24–26.
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