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Matar’s research in the past two decades has focused on relations between early modern Britain, Western Europe, and the Islamic Mediterranean.

He is Presidential Professor in the President’s Interdisciplinary Initiative on Arts and Humanities and teaches in the departments of English and History, and in the Religious Studies Program.ĭr. In 1997, he became the Department Head and served until 2007 when he moved to the English Department at the University of Minnesota. Matar moved to the United States and started teaching in the Humanities Department at Florida Institute of Technology. He taught at Jordan University and the American University of Beirut, and received postdoctoral grants from the British Council (Clare Hall, Cambridge University) and from Fulbright (Harvard Divinity School). at Cambridge University on the poetry of Thomas Traherne. He is Presidential Professor in the President’s Interdisciplinary Initiati Nabil Matar studied English Literature at the American University of Beirut where he received his B.A. Nabil Matar studied English Literature at the American University of Beirut where he received his B.A.