Sherif Abdelkarim

Sherif Abdelkarim serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the College of the Holy Cross, specializing in cross-cultural literary and linguistic analysis across premodern traditions.

His academic credentials include:

• B.A. from the College of William & Mary
• Ph.D. from the University of Virginia

Abdelkarim's research integrates historical linguistics with literary studies, focusing on Old English, Middle English, and classical Arabic textual traditions. His interdisciplinary expertise spans:

• Ethics & aesthetics
• Law & literature
• Lexicography
• Medievalism
• Narrative theory
• Performance studies
• Translation studies

His current monograph Hypocrisy: Private Laws, Literary Publics, 500-1500 investigates hypocrisy as a transhistorical concept through comparative literary analysis of premodern societies.