Office: HMNSS 2508
Phone: (951) 827-1289

jeffrey.sacks@ucr.edu

Jeffrey Sacks
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006

Jeff Sacks' research interests include comparative literature and literary studies, Arabic literature and culture, Arab Jewish literature, postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis, poetry and poetics, and loss. He is completing a book manuscript which addresses the relations among literature and loss in Arabic and Arab Jewish letters, titled Refusals of Mourning, and is working on a book, titled Others: A History of Debt, which traces figures of indebtedness in literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

Professor Sacks' publications include a translation of a volume of poetry by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (New York: Archipelago, 2006) and an essay titled "Language Places" which has been included in a volume devoted to Darwish, Mahmoud Darwish: Exile's Poet, ed. Najat Rahman and Hala Nassar (Northamton, Ma.: Interlink, 2007), 239-272.

Courses offered by Professor Sacks include "Palestine/Algeria" (Spring 2008); "Introduction to Arabic Literatures and Cultures" (Fall 2008); "Modern Arabic Poetry in a Multilingual Frame" (Fall 2008); "Loss" (Winter 2009); "Masterworks of World Literature" (Spring 2008, 2009); "Classical Arabic Literary Prose" (Fall 2009).