About

Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, Saree has written several influential books, including “Romantic Imperialism,” “William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s,” “Palestine Inside Out,” “Making England Western,” and “Reading William Blake.”

 

Currently completing “Tolerance is a Wasteland,” he holds a PhD from Duke University and a BA from Wesleyan University.

 

His research spans British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory, and urban modernity, with a focus on London, Beirut, and Jerusalem, as well as the afterlives of colonialism in the contemporary Arab world.