Sherif Abdelkarim

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

Ethics & aesthetics; Law & literature; Lexicography; Medievalism; Narrative theory; Performance studies; Translation studies

Education

B.A., William & Mary; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Sherif Abdelkarim

Biography

Sherif Abdelkarim specializes in English historical linguistics and Old English, Middle English, and classical Arabic literature. His primary book project, Hypocrisy: Private Laws, Literary Publics, 500-1500, examines conceptions and representations of hypocrisy across the premodern world.