{"id":3672,"date":"2019-08-19T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/?page_id=3672"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:45:33","slug":"khellaf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/khellaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: Kyle Khellaf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1yvy48-7d6516f829a4a1742f9f1ba6fb6abbaa\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-1yvy48-7d6516f829a4a1742f9f1ba6fb6abbaa{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-1yvy48-7d6516f829a4a1742f9f1ba6fb6abbaa .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-1yvy48-7d6516f829a4a1742f9f1ba6fb6abbaa .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-1yvy48-7d6516f829a4a1742f9f1ba6fb6abbaa av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Faculty<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9nkoy1-5f46cbc3e4ed5fb6a10d4d257b93cd30\">\n.flex_column.av-9nkoy1-5f46cbc3e4ed5fb6a10d4d257b93cd30{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-9nkoy1-5f46cbc3e4ed5fb6a10d4d257b93cd30 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-7z4c6h-b9e181da301d64abd191fbd70890ecb2  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-4110 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-4110 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-817x1030.jpg\" alt='Kyle Khellaf'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"1030\" width=\"817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-817x1030.jpg 817w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-768x968.jpg 768w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-1219x1536.jpg 1219w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-1625x2048.jpg 1625w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-1190x1500.jpg 1190w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-559x705.jpg 559w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts-450x567.jpg 450w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Khellaf-Ski-Lifts.jpg 1904w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name '  itemprop=\"name\" >Kyle Khellaf<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Assistant Professor, <em>Comparative Literature, Classics<\/em><\/div><div class='team-member-description '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Ph.D. in Classical Philology, Yale University, 2018<br \/>\nM.A. in Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Georgia, 2012<br \/>\nB.A. (Hons.) in Latin and Ancient History, Swarthmore College, 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office:<\/strong> HMNSS 2506<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:kyle.khellaf@ucr.edu\">kyle.khellaf@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >UCR | Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-694we1-1fce3d1fe1228f484f8aafbafd138c89\">\n.flex_column.av-694we1-1fce3d1fe1228f484f8aafbafd138c89{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-694we1-1fce3d1fe1228f484f8aafbafd138c89 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-3tlr15-6d59c221193201dee0a7654ddc83ca8b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Kyle Khellaf is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics. His research focuses on Greco-Roman historiography, especially digressions. It explores how such non-linear teleologies emerged in response to broader historical phenomena. These include ethnographic encounters with foreign peoples; accounts of migration, transculturation, and settlement across the broader Mediterranean landscape; the liminal \u201cMiddle Sea,\u201d with its numerous histories of colonization and the resulting paradoxographical encounters that unfold in its fluid spaces; as well as stories of slave rebellions and their leaders whose voices, were it not for the digression, would remain eclipsed by the \u201cgreat men\u201d of history.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle\u2019s other research and pedagogical interests include the problematic legacies of classical receptions (particularly in the colonial and postcolonial Maghreb), ancient and modern empires, and the applications of Postwar French theory to the classical world.<\/p>\n<p>His current book project (under contract with Bloomsbury) is titled\u00a0<em>Antiquity and the Making of the Maghreb<\/em>. The book contends that the Maghreb in late modernity\u2014a region of the world that has seen iterative waves of invasion, conquest, settlement, and coloniality from the 9th century BCE through the 20th century\u2014was deeply shaped by the legacies of classical antiquity. In particular, the book documents the 19th century obsession with retracing the Roman conquests of Carthage and Numidia and redeploying these as models for modern warfare, genocide, and settler colonialism. In turn, it illustrates how these colonial ideologies have been contested by Maghrebi writers, artists, and thinkers from the 20th century well into the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>When not teaching, conducting research, or writing, Kyle can be found cycling throughout the greater California area (especially the mountain roads of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino ranges).<\/p>\n<p>For additional research and teaching materials, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/kylekhellaf.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/kylekhellaf.wordpress.com\/<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ucriverside.academia.edu\/KyleKhellaf\">https:\/\/ucriverside.academia.edu\/KyleKhellaf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For cycling updates (fellow athletes, add me on Strava), see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strava.com\/athletes\/kkhellaf\">https:\/\/www.strava.com\/athletes\/kkhellaf<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kylekhellaf.wordpress.com\/the-diabonkcyclist\/\">https:\/\/kylekhellaf.wordpress.com\/the-diabonkcyclist\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special\u00a0Journal Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guest editor for a special double issue of <em>Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature<\/em>, titled <em>Deterritorializing Classics: Deleuze, Guattari, and Antiquity<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Ramus<\/em>\u00a049, 2020).<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Articles and Book Chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore Roman than the Romans: Neoclassical Genocide in French Numidia,\u201d <em>Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies<\/em> 68 (2025), 235-53<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inglorious History and the Tacitean Digression.&#8221; In <em>Digressions in Classical Historiography<\/em>. Ed. Mario Baumann and Vasileios Liotsakis. Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter (2024), 181-220.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMigration and Mobile Memory in the Roman Historical Digression.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography<\/em>. Ed. Aske Damtoft Poulsen and Arne J\u00f6nssen. Leiden and Boston: Brill (2021), 262-97.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Classical Nomadologies.&#8221; <em>Ramus<\/em> 49 (2020), 1-40.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Elegiac Revolution: Deleuze, Desire, and Propertius\u2019\u00a0<em>Monobiblos<\/em>.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Psychology and the Classics: A Dialogue of Disciplines<\/em>. Ed. Jeroen Lauwers, Hedwig Schwall , and Jan Opsomer. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter (2018), 171-88.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncomplete and Disconnected: Polybius, Digression, and Its Historiographical Afterlife.\u201d In\u00a0<em>Polybius and His Legacy<\/em>. Ed. Nikos Miltsios and Melina Tamiolaki.\u00a0\u00a0Berlin and New York: Walter De Gruyter (2018), 167-201.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Encyclopedia Entries:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six entries on \u201cBattle of Mons Graupius,\u201d \u201cBrigantes,\u201d \u201cCalgacus,\u201d \u201cdigressions,\u201d \u201c(Publius) Ostorius Scapula,\u201d and \u201cUsipi.\u201d In\u00a0<em>The Tacitus Encyclopedia<\/em>. Ed. Victoria E. Pagan. Chichester, Malden, and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2023), 157-58, 174-75, 196, 347-49, 767-68, 1113-14.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Book Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do Philologists Dream of Oedipus Rex?&#8221; Review essay of Lev Kenaan, Vered. <em>The Ancient Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text<\/em>. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Available online in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/syndicate.network\/symposia\/literature\/the-ancient-unconscious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syndicate<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2021).<\/p>\n<p>Review of Galtier, Fabrice.\u00a0<em>L\u2019Image tragique de l\u2019Histoire chez Tacite: \u00c9tude des sch\u00e8mes tragiques dans les Histories et les Annales<\/em>. Brussels: Collection Latomus, 2011. 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