Margaret Litvin

Spring 2025 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:30-5:00 and by appointment (in person or over Zoom).

Margaret Litvin is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature. She teaches courses including “War in Arabic Literature & Film,” “Global Shakespeares,” “1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination,” “Arabic Translation & Interpreting,” and the bilingual course “Intro to Arabic Literature.” She also teaches in the Core social science sequence and in the MFA in Literary Translation program. She founded BU’s interdisciplinary major in Middle East and North Africa Studies in 2014 and has advised the Arabic minor since 2009. She welcomes prospective student inquiries about the BU MFA in Literary Translation, the Arabic minor, and potential undergraduate research projects in Arabic.

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Professor Litvin’s Current CV

Watch Professor Litvin’s lecture, “Tongue-Tied Internationalism: Adventures with a Soviet Setting, an Egyptian Novel, and an Indian Press”, presented at BU’s Translation Seminar (April 10, 2020)

Read an interview with Professor Litvin, “Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: The Bilingual Course, Backwards” a discussion about CAS LY 350.

Read Professor Litvin’s essay about teaching Literary Translation at Boston University

Read an interview with Professor Litvin on the blog for Transregional Research, Berlin. “I want to see more rising scholars with large and diverse language sets and really transnational interests – 5in10 with Margaret Litvin”

Watch Professor Litvin’s lecture “Shall We Be or Not Be: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Anxieties of Arab Nationalism.”

Visit Professor Litvin’s Personal Website

Discussion with director Hani Afifi at Cairo University, 2011

Interview with BBC Arabic on Arabic Chekhov adaptations, 2022

Visit to a Hamlet class in Gaza, 2020

BUCH Profile on Professor Litvin, March 2025