Dr. Katherine Blouin is Associate Professor of History and Classics in the department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto and co-founder and lead editor of the platform Everyday Orientalism. Her publications include Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule (2014), The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period (editor, 2024), and The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory (co-editor with Ben Akrigg, 2024). She is currently writing a monograph entitled Inventing Alexandria and co-editing the volume Viva Palestina: Imagining Transhistorical Solidarity (with Usama Ali Gad, Mathura Umachandran, and Marchella Ward).
Posts by This Author
Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read part one here. They are there all right, but the narrative of their presen... More
Part 1: Teaching Orientalism at the Intersection of History and Anthropology
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read the epilogue here. Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) has profoundly affecte... More
On The People’s Circle for Palestine at the University of Toronto
As three non-Palestinians—one graduate student and two faculty members at the University of Toronto (UofT)—we reflect on the People’s Circle for Palestine and w... More