Huda Fakhereddine

Huda Fakhereddine is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences. Her work bridges pre-modern and contemporary Arabic poetic traditions, with a focus on metapoesis, prose poetry, and cross-cultural literary dialogues.

• Key Research Areas: Arabic modernism, qaṣīda evolution, multilingualism in translation
• Affiliations: Co-editor of Middle Eastern Literatures, Editor of Library of Arabic Literature, Section Editor for Encyclopaedia of Islam

Publications include monographs on Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (2015), The Arabic Prose Poem (2021), and co-editorship of The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry (2023). Her translations of Salim Barakat, Jawdat Fakhreddine, and Golan Haji have appeared in major journals.

Teaching encompasses seminars on Abbasid poetry, resistance literature, and Arabic modernism. She has pioneered global medieval literature pedagogy, challenging historicist approaches to pre-modern Arabic studies.