Ken Seigneurie

Areas of interest

Comparative literature and liberal thought and religion.

Education

• PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
• MA, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
• BA, English Literature, Michigan State University
• BA, Biology/Zoology, Michigan State University

Biography

Ken Seigneurie is Professor of World Literature at SFU. Most recently, he served as Co-Editor with Antranik Dakessian of “How My Days Passed: An Armenian Picaresque” (2024) by Hagop Der Balian and translated by Vatche Ghazarian. This first-person memoir of the 1915-16 Armenian Genocide includes a foreword by Raymond Kévorkian, editors’ introduction, maps, and photos. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the six-volume “Wiley Blackwell Companion to World Literature.” In 2015 his translation from Arabic of Rashid al-Daif’s ‘Awdat al-almānī ila rushdih appeared in, “What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin” from the University of Texas Press. In 2011 a monograph, “Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon,” was published by Fordham University Press. He has published articles in numerous journals including: “Middle Eastern Literatures,” “Comparative Literature Studies,” “The Journal of Arabic Literature,” “Public Culture” and “Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East,” and “The Journal of Narrative Theory.” He is currently working on a book-length project on mid-twentieth-century novelistic responses to the crisis of liberal thought. Focal points for the project include Egyptian, French and Anglo-American literatures, liberal thought and religion.