Michelle Hartman is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, where she has worked since 2002. She teaches in all areas of Arabic literature and is especially interested in the way in which creative languages are used in literary texts, the connections between the politics of literature and its poetics and literature as resistance. One of her main areas of focus in her research is the politics of translation from Arabic to English, particularly the way in which theory and practice do and do not come together. Her literary and translation research is primarily on women writers from Lebanon and Palestine.