Barbara Romaine (born 1959) is an academic and translator of Arabic literature.^[1] She currently teaches at the Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies at Villanova University. Romaine has translated a number of literary works from Arabic to English. These are:

• Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery by Bahaa Taher(University of California Press, 1996)
• Siraaj by Radwa Ashour (University of Texas Press, 2007)
• Spectres by Radwa Ashour (Interlink Books, 2011)
• Farag by Radwa Ashour (forthcoming from Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing)

Romaine won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2007 to facilitate her translation of Spectres. She was named runner-up for the 2011 Banipal Prize for the same book.

• List of Arabic-English translators