Ammiel Alcalay

Ammiel Alcalay is a Distinguished Professor at Queens College, CUNY, with affiliations in English, Comparative Literature, American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Medieval Studies, and Africana Studies. His scholarship bridges poetry, decolonization, Cold War cultural politics, and Levantine heritage.

Publications include After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture and Islanders. He founded the Lost & Found: CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, recovering works by marginalized 20th-century writers. Awarded the 2017 American Book Award for editorial work on archival poetics.