Farès el-Dahdah is a designer, an educator, a scholar, and a digital humanist. He received his undergraduate degrees in both fine arts and architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and went on to pursue his graduate studies in urbanism and architectural theory at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where his interests in bridging literary theory and architecture became the subject of his doctoral dissertation and a first manifestation of a lifelong commitment to interdisciplinarity. Following a two decade long professorial track at Rice University's School of Architecture, he was appointed director of the Humanities Research Center (HRC) in 2012, Professor of the Humanities in 2014, and Professor of Art History in 2021. Since 2023, and while on leave from Rice, el-Dahdah serves as the Mamdouha El-Sayed Bobst Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. Over the course of his career, el-Dahdah was named Cisneros Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Visiting Fellow at the Canadian Center for Architecture, and was awarded the Arthur W. Wheelwright Fellowship.