Alexandra Shraytekh

Alexandra Shraytekh is a Mellon-Bridge Assistant Professor of Arabic and International Literary and Visual Studies at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University (2016) and has additional degrees from Yale (MPhil 2015, MA 2014) and a BA from Lebanese American University (2009).

Her research intersects transnational literature, visual studies, race/ethnicity studies, gender studies, environmental studies, queer studies, and disability studies. Current projects include Other Realisms: A Theory of the Arabic Fantastic, examining marginalized voices through supernatural narratives, and Arab Horror, analyzing horror's role in critiquing modernities. She has published in Journal of North African Studies and Cambridge University Press volumes.

Shraytekh teaches courses on Arab Spring, Mizrahi literature/film, and monstrosity in media. She authored two Arabic novels (Always Coca-Cola and Ali and His Russian Mother), translated into English and German. Her academic and creative works explore cultural hybridity, diaspora, and marginalized identities.