Abu Odeh is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, a permanent fellow of the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, and an advisor for Visto International. He received his PhD from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2017, and where he also taught between the years 2014-2015. In 2009, he was a visiting scholar at University of California-San Diego where he conducted a critical study on the politics of knowledge and late style in the work of Edward Said. His research focuses on Orientalism, postcolonialism, critical theory, race studies, and the politics of exile. His latest book, The Consolations of Exile: Narrating the Self, has recently been published by the Arab Institute for Research and Publication, Beirut(2019).