Dr Hamdan is an assistant professor of Anglo-American literary studies at the Department of English, An-Najah National University. His thesis focuses on female sexuality and nineteenth-century transatlantic psychic and bodily forms of communication such as Mesmerism, Spiritualism, Telegraphy and Epistolarity and reconsiders the role of women within these movements. He is currently interested in comparative studies on exile, landscape and national identity in modern Palestinian-Israeli fiction. His articles appear in different remarkable international journals such as Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies and National Identities.