Maximilian Karama

Email: maximilian.karama@baruch.cuny.edu

Phone: 646-312-4248

Fax: 646-312-4211

Location: NVC 6-273

Maximilian Karama is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature with a joint Ph.D. from Columbia University and the Sorbonne. He studied in France, the U.S., and Colombia and is an alumnus of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Germany) and a former Foreign Resident Student of the École normale supérieure (France). Before coming to Baruch, he held positions at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and at Sarah Lawrence College.

His theoretical background lies in gender and sexuality, semiotics, metaphor, translation, and in literary criticism in combination with cultural studies and anthropology. He has an expertise in two research fields: within French and Francophone Studies, he is a specialist of the 19th to 21st centuries and of postcolonial North Africa; in Comparative Literature his work concerns the modern and postmodern literatures of Europe, the Muslim world, and the Americas.