Bio


Suleiman Hodali received a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA. He is a 2025-27 Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and was previously a 2025-26 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside.

His research and teaching are situated at the intersections of several different fields, including eighteenth and nineteenth century studies, British Romanticism, translation theory, modern Arabic literature and culture, literary and critical theory, the history of ideas, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism.

Recent and forthcoming writings appear in such publications as Studies in Romanticism, South Atlantic Quarterly, Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, and Ebb Magazine.

He is presently completing his first book project, titled, New Jerusalems, Modern Crusades: Holy Lands in the Imaginative Geography of Empire.

Honors & Awards


  • UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (2025)

Professional Education


  • PhD, UCLA, Comparative Literature
  • BA, UCLA, Middle Eastern and North African Studies
  • BA, UCLA, Comparative Literature

Stanford Advisors