Waïl S. Hassan is Professor and Head of the Department of Comparative & World Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. A specialist in modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, he is the author, editor, and translator of nine books, guest editor of six special issues, and author of eighty journal articles, chapters, and reviews. He is most recently the author of Arab Brazil: Fictions of Ternary Orientalism (Oxford 2024) and the editor of O mundo árabe e o Brasil (Makunaima, 2024).