MICHAEL COOPERSON
Ph.D., Harvard University

Michael Cooperson is associate professor of Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. His specialties include classical Arabic literature, biography, literary theory, and time travel literature.

He is the author of Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma`mun (Cambridge 2000), and translator of Abdelfattah Kilito's The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture (Syracuse 2002).