The Political Life of the Novel: Brandon Hobson, Isabella Hammad, and Amir Ahmadi Arian in Conversation with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

An event by Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance

In-person & live on Zoom
Thursday, November 07, 2024
05:30PM EST ∙ 09:30PM GMT ∙ 11:30 PM EET
300 O’Shaughnessy Hall – Sojourner Truth Commons

This event is made possible with the generous support and sponsorship from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, MFA Program in Creative Writing, Department of English, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, The Graduate School, the Institute for Social Concerns, and hosted by the Initiative on Race and Resilience

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Dr. Brandon Hobson is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow. He received his PhD from Oklahoma State University. His novel, “Where the Dead Sit Talking,” was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Reading the West Award, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, among other distinctions. His short stories have won a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in the “Best American Short Stories,” and elsewhere. He teaches Creative Writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is the Editor-in-Chief of Puerto Del Sol. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.

Isabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian, Enter Ghost and Recognizing the Stranger. The Parisian won a Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Betty Trask Award. She was a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree and named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Enter Ghost won the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Encore Award, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has taught fiction and creative writing at Brown University, NYU, and Al-Quds Bard College, and she is currently the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.

Amir Ahmadi Arian is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction in Persian. His first novel in English, Then The Fish Swallowed Him, was published by HarperCollins in 2020. His essays and short stories have appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, NYRB, Paris Review, LRB, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Binghamton University, New York.