Renée Ragin Randall is assistant professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Michigan. Her current monograph-in-progress is on narratives of atrocities in late-twentieth-century Lebanon during its civil wars. She teaches courses on trauma and memory studies as well as world literature with a particular focus on exchanges across the Global South in languages other than English. Her work has appeared in Middle Eastern Literatures, Cultural Critique, Cultural Dynamics, Mashriq and Mahjar, and The Journal of Veterans’ Studies as well as The Conversation.