Nadine Adel Sinno

Nadine A. Sinno is an associate professor of Arabic and director of the Arabic program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include modern Arabic and Arab-American literature and cultural studies, particularly focusing on gender and sexuality, Arab/Muslim feminism, ecocriticism, and visual culture. 

Sinno’s scholarly work has appeared in journals including the Journal of Arabic Literature, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Middle East Critique, Middle Eastern Literatures, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, College Literature, and ASAP/Journal. Her publications also include a literary translation of Nazik Saba Yared’s novel Canceled Memories (2009) and a co-translation of Rashid al-Daif’s novel Who’s Afraid of Meryl Streep? (2014) from Arabic to English. 

Currently, Sinno teaches courses including Arabic (at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels), Arabic for oral proficiency (spoken dialect), Media Arabic, Arabic literature in translation, and undergraduate research. Her professional experience also includes teacher-training, literary translation, interpretation, and teaching English as a second language.