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Tayseer Abu Odeh
Tayseer Abu Odeh is a writer and translator from Jordan. He is currently an assistant professor of comparative literature and postcolonial studies at Arab Open University. Abu Odeh is a permanent fellow of the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research. His research interests include orientalism, English literature, late style, world literature, exile, classical and modern Arabic literature and Islamic modernism. Abu Odeh’s most recent research article is ‘The pleasures and pitfalls of exile and counterpoint in Farah’s maps’. He is currently working on a fiction project entitled ‘The Pleasures of Exile’. This intellectual project aims at dismantling and challenging the mainstream epistemological and literary forms of exile and home in various ways.