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Professor of Literature
Randa Abou Bakr
1966
Helwan
Egypt
randaaboubakr@yahoo.co.uk
Cairo University
Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts
Giza
Egypt
PhD, Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1998.
MA, Modern English Poetry, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1994.
Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English, University of Cambridge and The American University in Cairo, 1991.
BA, English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1988.
Arabic
English
French
German
English Literature and Poetry
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Modern Arabic Poetry
Contemporary Colloquial Egyptian Poetry
Has been elected as Dean of Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 2011 (First dean to be elected).
Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 2009-present.
Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 2003-2009.
Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1998-2003.
Assistant Lecturer, English and Comparative Literature, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, 1994-1998.
Member, The Egyptian Comparative Literature Society.
Member, Egyptian Graduates Class.
Member, The European Association of Modern Arabic Literature.
"The Representation of Medieval Cairo in Modern Arabic Literature,” Living in Historic Cairo. Eds. F. Daftary, E. W. Fernea and A. Nanji, Washington: Washington University Press, 2010.
“The Political Prisoner as Antihero: The Prison Poetry of Wole Soyinka and Ahmad Fuad Nigm,” Comparative Literature Studies 46.2: 261-286, 2009.
“The Role of the 'Organic Intellectual' in the Quest for 'World Cultural Studies': A Reading of the Cultural and Political Thought of E. San Juan, Jr.," Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Comparative Literature (Cairo: Cairo University P.
The Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Mahmud Darwish: A Comparative Study, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2004.
“Music and I,” In Remembering Childhood in the Middle East: Memoirs from a Century of Change. Ed. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
