Deborah Starr

• Associate Professor
• Director, Program of Jewish Studies
• Modern Arabic and Hebrew literature; critical theory; Middle Eastern film

• 415 White Hall
• Phone: (607) 254-6594
• Fax: (607) 255-6450
• das86@cornell.edu

Deborah A. Starr (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 2000) is Associate Professor of Modern Arabic and Hebrew Literature. Her interests include contemporary Egyptian culture, Mizrahi literature and culture, minority communities of the Middle East, Middle Eastern cinema, cosmopolitanism, and urban studies. Her book, Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Culture, Society, and Empire investigates the close relationship between the cosmopolitan and empire through an analysis of literary and filmic texts that represent Egypt’s former diversity. She is currently working on another book on the place of foreigners and minorities in the Egyptian film industry from the 1930s through the 1950s.

• Curriculum vitae