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Hoda Elsadda

صورة
Organizations: NGOs, Universities
Professions: Critic, Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Hoda Elsadda

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE


hoda.elsadda@gmail.com

https://wmf.org.eg/

 

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Cairo University

English Language and Literature

Egypt

hoda.elsadda@cu.edu.eg

Education


PhD, English Literature, Cairo University, 1988.

MA, English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo, 1981.

BA, English Literature, Cairo University, 1978.

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Comparative Cultural Studies

Feminist Writing

Gender Discourses in the Arab World

Oral Histories of Arab Women

WORK HISTORY


Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Manchester, 2005-2011.

Co-Director, Center for Advanced Studies of the Arab World, UK, 2006-2011.

Professor of English Literature, Cairo University, 2000-2005.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, Egypt's 50-Member Constitution Committee, 2013.

Member, Board of Directors, Global Fund for Women, 2009-Present.

Member, Advisory Board, Global Fund for Women, 2005-2009.

Member, Advisory Board, Durham Series in Modern Languages, 2009.

Co-Founder and President of the Board of Trustees, Women and Memory Forum, 1997-Present.

Productions and Works


Edited and authored introduction, Al-niswiyya wa al-tarikh (Feminism and History), Translated by Abeer Abbas. Cairo: Women and Memory Forum, 2010 (Forthcoming).

"Egypt," in Arab Writings: A Reference Guide, 1873-1999, p.98-161. Edited by Radwa Ashour, Faryal Ghuzul and Hasna Muqaddisi. Translated by Mandy Macler. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2008.

"Imagining the New Man: Gender and the Nation in Narratives of Arabic Literature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century," Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS) 3 (Spring 2007), p. 31-55.

Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt 1892-2008. Syracuse University Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2012.