Ghenwa Antonios has a Master’s degree in English Literature from the American University of Beirut. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center. My research interests include modern Arabic literature, spatial theories with a particular focus on the coffeehouse as a site of intellectual discourse and political consciousness in Middle Eastern literary and cultural imagination.
Alexander Pau Soria is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center. His research interests include subjectivity under capitalism, socialist realism, and intellectual history.