William Zimmerle
Senior Lecturer, Arts and Humanities; Affiliated Faculty Member of the Arab Crossroads Studies Program and History Program
NYU Abu Dhabi

Álvaro Luna-Dubois is a scholar of twentieth and twenty-first-century French and American literature. His research centers on migration and diasporic writing, with an emphasis on U.S. Latinx and Franco-Maghrebi cultures. Working across European, American, North African, and Latin American literary traditions, mainly in French, Arabic, English, Spanish, and hybrid linguistic varieties, his research focuses on 1-the relation of diasporic literature with literary theory and genres, 2-the representation of place and space in literatures of migration and diaspora, 3-the application of migration theories to the study of literature, and 4-how literature and visual art from the Global South respond to migration movements.