Adi Saleem is a scholar of modern and contemporary France. His research and teaching broadly focus on the intersection of race and religion, particularly in relation to Jews and Muslims. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Beyond Jews and Muslims, which examines genealogies of antisemitism and Islamophobia in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. He is the editor of a recent volume titled Queer Jews, Queer Muslims (2024). His recent work has appeared in Contemporary French Civilization, French Cultural Studies, Modern & Contemporary France, and the Journal of Language and Sexuality. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Romance Studies and CFC Intersections, both published by Liverpool University Press, as well as the Darom book series published by Wayne State University Press.

Adi Saleem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. As an interdisciplinary scholar of Jewish Studies and Muslim Studies, he is a co-founder and coordinator of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network (JMRN), an international research network of over two hundred scholars of Jewish and Muslim studies. He earned his interdisciplinary Ph.D. on the topic of Jewish-Muslim relations in contemporary France from the University of Manchester’s Department of Modern Languages and Cultures in 2020 after studying French and Political Science at Boston University and Modern Literature at the University of Paris III–Sorbonne Nouvelle.

As a scholar committed to public engagement, Adi Saleem has given talks at a number of universities and organizations including MIT and Theatre Wit in Chicago. To invite Adi Saleem to give a lecture or lead a workshop at your institution or organization, please email him at abharat(at)umich.edu.