Suleiman Hodali researches, writes, and teaches about literature and culture. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and was previously a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside. He received his PhD in comparative literature from UCLA.

Recent and forthcoming writings appear in such publications as Studies in Romanticism, South Atlantic Quarterly, Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, and Ebb Magazine.

He is presently completing his first book project, titled, New Jerusalems and Modern Crusades: Holy Lands in the Imaginative Geography of Empire.