Faculty Publications
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West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (November 2016). Finalist for Albert J. Raboteau Prize in Africana Religions.
Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Winner of the American Academy of Religion Award, "Best First Book in the History of Religions," 2000.
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Water on Fire: A Memoir of War (New York: Other Press, 2024)
"Video Archives of the Syrian Revolution: A Media Experiment." Visual Anthropology 37, no. 1 (2024): 74–91.
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BOOKS
This Book Is Full of Holes: Literary Bodies & the Invention of an Idiom. University of Regina Press, 2026/NYU Press. The Exquisite Corpse, 7.
Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric. Liverpool University Press, 2017. Contemporary French & Francophone Cultures, 48.
º review by Jane Hiddleston, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, vol. 9, nº 2, Autumn 2018, pp. 21–22
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities, edited w/ Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. University of Virginia Press, 2026. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities, 52.
Literature as Sound Studies, edited w/ Liesl Yamaguchi. Bloomsbury, 2025. Bloomsbury Sound Studies.
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean, edited w/ Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. Palgrave, 2025. Mediterranean Perspectives, 13.
Abdelkébir Khatibi: Literature & Theory, edited w/ Matt Reeck. PMLA, vol. 137, nº 2, March 2022.
Sounds Senses. Liverpool University Press, 2021. Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 12.
º review by Aaron Prevots, The French Review, vol. 96, nº 1, October 2022, pp. 216–217
º review by Aimée Boutin, H-France Review, vol. 23, nº 9, March 2023
º review by Alison Rice, French Studies, 15 May 2023
The Postlingual Turn, edited w/ Rebecca L. Walkowitz. SubStance 154 (vol. 50, nº 1), Spring 2021.
Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Æsthetics & Deployments of a Sea in Crisis, edited w/ Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. Palgrave, 2018. Mediterranean Perspectives, 4.
Cultures du mysticisme. Expressions maghrébines, vol. 16, nº 2, Winter 2017.
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Unlocking Leshon Hakodesh. Mosaica Press, 2025.
Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar. Routledge, 5th updated ed, 2026. https://www.routledge.com/Modern-Hebrew-An-Essential-Grammar/Glinert/p/…
"Language for Actionable Recommendations in Clinical Guidelines: Avoiding Hedging and Equivocation" (co-author: Richard S. Klasco). Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 317:6 (February 14, 2017)
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Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Princeton University Press, 2008; paperback 2010).
Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung, trans. Dirk Hartwig (Berlin: Mathes und Seitz, 2018).
The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism, ed. Susannah Heschel and Umar Ryad (New York: Routledge Press, 2018).
Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations, ed. Christopher Browning, Susannah Heschel, Michael R. Marrus and Milton Shain (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan Books, 2015).
Editor and Introductions, Essential Writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2011).
Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders, co-edited with Fabian Udoh et. al. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).
Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, edited with David Biale and Michael Galchinsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, editor, sections on Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Judaism. Edited with Serinity Young, E. Ann Matter, et. al. (New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998)
Betrayal: The German Churches and the Holocaust, edited with Robert P. Ericksen (Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress Press, 1999)
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays by Abraham Joshua Heschel Edited and with Introduction. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996)
On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader. Edited and with Introductions. (Schocken Books, 1983; second edition with new introduction, 1995)
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A Postcolonial Reading of Naguib Mahfouz's Novel Midaq Alley قراءة ما بعد كولونيالية لرواية نجيب محفوظ زقاق المدق
Mustansiriyah Journal of Arts
2023, Volume 47, Issue 103
"Engineering the Afro-Mediterranean Frontier: Notes on La Goletta (1535-1574)," The Habsburgs in Tunis, eds. Alina Payne and Avinoam Shalem (De Gruyter, in press, expected fall 2026).
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance, (2008).
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Books
Co-author of MrHba Bikoum, A Moroccan Arabic Textbook for Beginners, ALIF Editions, Fez.
Co-author of Window on the World, Official English textbook for 10th grade students, Nadia Editions, Rabat: 2005. [Student's Book, Teacher's Book, and Workbook]
Co-Translated into Arabic and edited Dale Eickelman's Knowledge and Power in Morocco, New Edition: 2009.
Translated into Arabic Christine Eickelman's Women and Community in Oman (New York University Press, 1984), Al-Ahali Press, Damascus: 2011.
Translated into Arabic Adam Golfer's A House Without a Roof Booklyn, New York: 2016
Articles
"Narratives and Aspects of Untranslatability" Turjuman [Journal of Translation Studies, King Fahd School of Translation], Tangier: 1998. pp.11-20.
Translated into Arabic Dale Eickleman's "Tribal Belonging Today: Implications and Transformations" in Omran, Vol. 5, Issue 19, Winter 2017, pp. 57-68
Translated into Arabic Jean-Christophe Merle's "Deliberative Democracy and Cultural Pluralism" in the Arabic journal Albab, Issue 13, Spring 2019, pp. 170-84.
Translated into Arabic Manuel Castells' "A Sociology of Power: My Intellectual Journey" in the Arabic journal Albab, Issue 14, Winter 2019, pp. 172-203.
Translated into Arabic Dale Eickelman's "The Modern Face of Ibadism in Oman" in
"أنثروبولوجيا المجتمعات الإسلامية: مقالات ديل أيكلمان في الإسلام العام والحداثة والمعرفة والتعليم ووسائل الإعلام الجديدة"، تحرير يونس الوكيلي، مؤمنون بلا حدود للنشر والتوزيع، الطبعة الأولى، بيروت، 2022،
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Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition Cambridge UP 2020
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Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2022) Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
The Politics of Melodrama: The Political and Cultural Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser (Stanford University Press, 2025).
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A History of Modern Libya, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Cayado, D.K.T., Wray, S., Chacón, D., Lai, M.C.H., Matar, S., & Stockall, L. (to appear). MEG evidence for left temporal and orbitofrontal involvement in breaking down inflected words and putting the pieces back together. Cortex.
Stanford, James N. and Samantha Wray. (to appear) Language acquisition and language change. in The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Wray, S., & Ussishkin, A. (2022). Productivity Effects on Morphological Processing in Maltese Auditory Word Recognition. Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition, 56.
Coto-Solano, R., Nicholas, S. A., & Wray, S. (2018, December). Development of natural language processing tools for Cook Islands Māori. In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2018 (pp. 26-33).