Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih

Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Literature

Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE


marietherese.abdelmessih@gmail.com

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Kuwait University

Department of English, Faculty of Arts

Kuwait

 

Education


PhD, Department of English Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1983.

Licenciatura con Tesina, Faculty of Filology, Department of English, Complutense University of Madrid, 1978.

MA, Department of English Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1974.

BA, Department of English Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1970.

languages


Arabic

English

French

Spanish

COMPETENCES


English and Comparative Literature

Literary Theory

European Thought

Aesthetics

WORK HISTORY


Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Kuwait University, 2007-present.

Chairperson, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 2007.

Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 2000-2007.

Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1995-2000.

Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1984-1995.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, The International Advisory Board & Associate Editors CLCWeb, Comparative Literature & Culture. Purdue University.

Member of Board of Trustees, International Arab Fiction Prize.

Member, The American Comparative Literature Association.

Member, The Egyptian Society of Comparative Literature.

Member, The Egyptian Writer's Union.

Member, International Comparative Literature Association.

Productions and Works


National Culture: International or Global Options, Cairo: Merit, 2008; GEBO 2009.

Visual and Verbal Cultural Representations, Cairo: Supreme Council for Culture, 2002.

Transcultural Reading of Literature, Cairo: General Organisation for Cultural Palaces, 1997.