An EconoTimes perspective

Renee Ragin Randall

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan I am a scholar of war and trauma; world literature and literary culture; visual studies; and the Global South. My current book project is on moral, social and ideological collapse during the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1990) as represented by the recurrent trope of madness in literature and visual arts produced during and after the conflict. Prior to my return to academia, I served as a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State in Washington DC and Saudi Arabia. I am also on the board of a local chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).