Ali A. Alhajji, Ph.D.

Ali Alhajji is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at King Saud University. His research and teaching focus on world literature, postcolonial studies, and contemporary Anglophone Arab writing. His work explores how literary studies, comparative methodologies, and critical reading practices contribute to understanding global cultural dynamics and contemporary transformations in knowledge production.

His research interests include transnational literary forms, narrative theory and reliability, and issues of translation and cross-cultural communication within postcolonial and global literary contexts. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in world literature and postcolonial theory and supervises M.A. theses in comparative literary studies.

In addition to his academic work, Dr. Alhajji is engaged with questions of higher education, youth, and innovation, and with the changing role of universities in social and cultural transformation. He contributes to these discussions through scholarly publications and intellectual writing, including his newsletter Qirāʾāt fī al-Adab al-ʿĀlamī (Readings in World Literature).