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We are delighted to welcome our newest faculty member, Michael Allan (Comparative Literature Ph.D., UC Berkeley). Professor Allan's dissertation, The Limits of Secular Criticism: World Literature at the Crossroads of Empires, directed by Karl Britto and Judith Butler, examines a range of sources in Arabic, English and French, and focuses upon the secularization of literature in colonial and post-colonial Egypt. Winner of the A. Owen Aldridge Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association, Professor Allan also specializes in film and visual studies, and his teaching interests include: globalization, the modern novel, African literature and film, and the intersections between sociology, anthropology and literature. During the 2008-09 academic year, Professor Allan will hold a fellowship at the Columbia University Society of Fellows. He will teach his first courses at the UO in Fall of 2009.