CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Data:

Name: Shereen Abouelnaga Place of birth: Cairo, Egypt Date of birth: July 25, 1966. E-mail: [email protected]

Languages: Arabic (mother tongue) English (fluent) French (good) Social status: Married

Career Background:

2007, November Professor, Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, English Department. 2001, March Associate Professor, Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, English Department. 1995, May Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, English Department Ph.D. degree in English poetry: “Self in Time: The Development of Wordsworth’s Ballad Experiment” 1991, Dec. Teaching at the American University in Cairo, Modern Arabic Literature in Translation. RSA (Royal Society of Arts) Certificate Cote Program 1990, March Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, English Department MA degree in English poetry: “The Conflict of W.H.Auden as Reflected in his Poetry of the Thirties” 1987, May Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, English Department BA in English Language and Literature

Professional Experience: 2014, Fall Teaching in the ARIC department at AUC. 2013, November FU, Berlin Invitation to Discourse: Normative Concepts in Transformation in the Arab Spring and Beyond. 2013, October Wisconsin Madison “Poetics of Resistance: Women between Politics and Aesthetics.”

1 2013, October Lectured in New York University: “Gender in the Egyptian Revolution”. 2013, July Participated in the workshop “Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World”, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (proceedings forthcoming from Zed Books). 2013, April Gave a lecture in Abu Dhabi book-fair. 2012, October Visiting professor to Cardiff University. 2011, April Participated in the examining panel of a Ph.D entitled “Metafiction in John Barth’s Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, and Mahfouz’s Arabian Nights and Days. (Alexandria University). 2010-2011 Chair of the English Department in Pharos University, Alexandria (on secondment). 1990-present Teaching in the English Dept. in Cairo University. 2009, Dec. Supervised an M.A thesis entitled “Self and Imagination in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop”. 2008 Fellow of the ISIM in Leiden, The Netherlands. 2006 Teaching in the Free University (Berlin) a course entitled “Feminism and Nationalism” (in English). 2005-2006 AKMI fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg Zu Berlin (WIKO). 2004, Sept. Participated in the examining panel of an M.A. entitled “The Development of Postmodernism in the Thought of Ihab Hassan” (English Department, Cairo University) 2004, June Participated in the examining panel of an M.A. entitled “Friendship in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” (English Department, Cairo University). 2004, Feb.- July Appointed as the head of the English department, Fayoum Faculty of Education, Cairo University. 2002-2003 Supervised the preliminary studies of a Ph.D. (Cultural criticism). 2002, July Participated in the examining panel of an M.A. entitled “The male figure in the poetry of Sylvia Plath” (Cairo University)

2 2001, Aug. Participated in the examining panel of an M.A. entitled “The concept of Sin in Graham Greene’s Trilogy.” (Beni Soueif)

Teaching Experience:

Undergraduate level: Practical criticism; 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th poetry; comparative literature; culture; and, modern drama. 1996/1997 (AUC): ‘Modern Arabic Literature in English.’

Postgraduate level: cultural studies; mythologies; poetry; and aesthetics.

Papers and Publications:

"ﳓﻦ ﺍﻟﻨﺴﺎﺀ ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺎﺕ"، ﳎﻠﺔ ﺍﻟﺪﳝﻘﺮﺍﻃﻴﺔ، ﻋﺪﺩ January 57 ,2015 2014, April Intellectuals in the Transitional Period (book), Cairo: Rawafed. 2013, Feb. “The Critical Text between Autonomy and Dependency”, in Al-Mostaqbal Al-Arabi (Arabic). 2012, December “the feminist question fraught with answers”, in Al-thaqafa al-Jadida (Arabic). 2012, January Introduction to Hundred Writers in the Centenary of Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic).

2009- Present regular literary articles in Al-Hayat newspaper.

"ﺍﻻﻏﺘﺭﺍﺏ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﻬﺎﻭﻴﺔ: ﻗﺭﺍﺀﺓ ﺍﻟﻭﺤﺩﺓ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﺘﻨﻭﻉ"، ﻓﻲ ﺩﻭﺭﻴﺔ ﻨﺠﻴﺏ .Dec ,2009 ﻤﺤﻔﻭﻅ. ﺍﻟﻘﺎﻫﺭﺓ: ﺍﻟﻤﺠﻠﺱ ﺍﻷﻋﻠﻰ ﻟﻠﺜﻘﺎﻓﺔ. 2009 Book Review, “Al Tashahi, Alia Mamdouh, 2007”. In International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. 3.3 "ﺍﻟﻨﺴﻭﻴﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﺘﺤﻴﻠﺔ" ﻓﻲ ﻤﺠﻠﺔ ﻁﻴﺒﺔ. ﻤﺠﻠﺔ ﻏﻴﺭ ﺩﻭﺭﻴﺔ ﺘﺼﺩﺭﻫﺎ .Dec ,2009 ﻤﺅﺴﺴﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺭﺃﺓ ﺍﻟﺠﺩﻴﺩﺓ. 2009 "Satirical Weapons, Egyptianized Kings", in Humor in der Arabischen Kultur. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. And Co, 2009

2008, September The Veil Between the Local and Global: A Religious or a Political Identity? Beirut: Al

3 Markaz Al Thakafi Al Arabi (the Arabic Cultural Center). 2008, March "Images of Women in The Arabic Novel", published in Al Hilal in Arabic. 2008. Feb. Betrayal of Cairo, a novel. (Cairo, Madbouli).

2008, Feb. "The Guard…The Family: Diseases of Power", published in Weghat Nazar (points of view) in Arabic. 2007 "Women Crossing Borders of Genre and Experience", in International Journal of Arabic- English Studies (IJAES), Libraire du Liban Publishers. 2007, Sept. "Noun: A Travelling Myth", published in Weghat Nazar (points of view) in Arabic. 2006, Sept. Editor of From the Papers of Shahenda Maklid (a biography), Cairo: Merit Publishing House (Arabic). 2004, Sept. “Arab Women and the New Media: Empowerment or disempowerment?” read at the conference of The Media and Political Change in the Arab World, held at Churchill College in Cambridge, England. Published in TBS of the American University in Cairo. 2004, June “Gender as A Concept”, published in a training manual for young lawyers in Egypt and sponsored by Heinrich Paul. 2003, October “A city of one’s own”, read at the conference of “Narrative and the City”, held by the Supreme Council of Culture, published in the periodical of Al Thakafa Al Gadida (New Culture).

2003, March Nation in the Narration of Arab Women Writers, Beirut, Center for Arab Unity Studies.

2003 “New politics, old identities: Arab women in (their) English words”, Agenda (South Africa) 2002, Dec. –2004 Writing a series of literary criticism articles in Al Qahira (weekly cultural newspaper) 2002, Dec. “The Arabic Discourse Post September 11th”, a paper read at the conference of the ALECSO in Tunis.

4 2002, Sept. Womanist or Feminist?, Cairo: GEBO, Maktabet al Osra (family library). 2002, August “An introduction to Laila al Othman’s writing”, in Al Arabi, issued by the Ministery of Culture in Kuweit (Arabic). 2002, July “Makdisi’s War Memoir: Fragments of Self and Place” in ALIF: the journal of comparative literature, n. 22, published by AUC 2001, June “Arabs in London looking for love and belonging”, a literary article in Al Hayat (daily Arabic newspaper) 2001, March “March 8: a celebration or cessation?”, an article (a forward) published in the periodical of Al-Nouqad (the critics), issue 50 2001, Feb. “Succumbing to the Other”, an article (a forward) published in the periodical of Al- Nouqad (the critics), issue 43 2000, Aug. “We and They: Myth or Reality? A Reading of Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love” read at the second International Conference held by the Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities in Amman, Jordan, published in Essays in Honour of Professor Fatma Moussa, English Department. 2000, April “Turning Subordination into Power in Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass”, published in Essays in Honour of Professor Afaf Al Menoufi, English Dept, Cairo University. 1999, Nov. “Mediocrity in the University and the Media” published in Rewaq Arabi issued by Cairo Center for Human Rights (Arabic Forum). 1999, July “The feminist Egyptian movement: continuity or disruption?” read at the conference held by the Group of Democratic Development in Cairo. 1999, Jan. “Qasim Amin in the hat of Lord Cromer”, published in Wighat Nazar (Points of View), a monthly periodical in Arabic. 1999, Feb. Zahia of The South, a book based on a field study about Aswani women funded by Konrad Adinawer (Arabic). 1999, June “The Concept of Home in The Story of Zahra and The Owner of The House: A Feminist

5 Reading”, published in ALIF, The Journal of Comparative Literature of the American University (Arabic). 1998, Sept. “Reading the women of the South”, read at the African Women Leaders held in Amsterdam. (published in the conference proceedings) 1998, June The Passion of Difference: Reading Feminist Egyptian Texts. Cairo: GEBO (Arabic). 1997, July “Tell me where you live, I tell you who you are”, read at the second international conference on Iraqi narratives, held in London. 1997, June “Themes of motherhood in African women’s poetry”, published in ALIF, The Journal of Comparative Literature of the American University (English). 1996, Dec. “ ‘Frailty, Thy name is Woman’, I Do Not believe Hamlet. A Study of Two Short Stories by Arab Women”, published in the proceedings of the 4th International Symposium of Cairo University. 1996- 1994 Published a series of articles about women in Rosa El Youssef, a weekly political magazine. 1996,Dec. “Orpheus rewrites history”, published in Al Kahira (Cairo), an Arabic Monthly literary periodical. 1996,July “Secularism and Feminism”, published in Al Nida’ (The Call) in Arabic. 1996, July ‘The Hidden discourse of women”, published in Al Kahira (Cairo) 1996, April “A Feminist…mountainous…difficult self”, published in Al Kahira (Cairo). 1995, Oct. “The defeat of victory or the victory of defeat? A reading in Baha’ Tahir’s Love in Exile”, published in the proceedings of the conference held by The Centre of Arabic Researches in Cairo under the title Literature and Nationalism. 1995, May “The cultural Problems that hinder the progress of women in Egypt”, published in Woman, Law and Development, a book published by The New Woman Research Centre. 1994, June “The fall from Wuthering Heights”, published in Hagar, an Arabic feminist periodical.

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Translations and Editing:

2006 From the series of ‘I Introduce to You’: Feminism (ed.), The Higher Council of Culture and Arts. 2006 From the series of ‘I Introduce to You’: Post Feminism (ed.), The Higher Council of Culture and Arts. رﺳﻢ ﻣﻼﻣﺢ اﻟﺴﻠﻄﺔ ﻓﻲ اﻟﮫﻨﺪ اﻟﻔﯿﻜﺘﻮرﻳﺔ “ 2004 In The Invention of Tradition, Erick Hobsbawn and Terence Ranger (eds.). Cambridge UP, 1993.

Travel Experience and Conferences:

2012-present Member of the jury of Naguib Mahfouz Medal, AUC. 2013, Nov. “The Birth of Gender through Art”, in Invitation to Discourse: Normative Concepts in Transformation in the Arab Spring and Beyond; held in Berlin Free University. 2013, October “Women’s Bodies: The Path to Subjectivity; in Poetics of Resistance,” held in University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2013, July “Reconstructing Gender in Post-revolution Egypt,” Warwick University. 2012, Nov. The Aesthetic Articulation of Protest in Post- revolution Egypt; lecture in Cardiff University, Center of Critical Thinking and Cultural Studies. 2012, April “Fantasies of Multiculturalism”, a paper presented in Cardiff University (UK) conference “Multiculturalism: Theories and Practices”. 2010 &2011, Dec. The Jury of Mahmoud Darwish Prize, Amman, Jordan. 2010, March “From Whispering to Announcing: Cyberspace as a Cultural Parallel Space”, a paper presented in the annual conference of Al-Arabi magazine held in Kuwait. 2008, Aug. Syria, Damascus "Conference on the Arabic Novel"

7 2008, Aug Denmark, Copenhagen (Egyptian- Danish Dialogue". 2007, May speaker on the panel of "Islamic Feminism" organized by the Academy of Science in Berlin. 2007, Feb. speaker in the workshop of "Women in the Arab World" organized by St. Anthony's College in Oxford. 2006, Oct. Invited to the Buchmess (Frankfurt Book fair) to participate in the panel of the East-West Diwan. 2006, Sept. Member of the TAC (technical advisory committee) meeting to select the Habitat best practice, Weihei, China. 2004, May Invited to the inaugural lecture of Professor Nasr Abu Zayd on the occasion of his appointment to the newly installed Ibn Rushd Chair at the University of Humanities in Utrecht; the lecture is entitled Rethinking the Qur’an: Towards Humanistic Hermeneutics. 2004, April Participated in the inaugural conference, headed by Mohamed Arkun, of the “Fondation Arabe pour la Pensee Moderne”, held in Beirut, Lebanon. 2004, Feb. “Political and Legal Criteria of Media Freedom in Relation to Emergency Law”, delivered at a seminar organized by the Arab Program of Human Rights Activists. 2003, June “A feminist narrative of the nation: reading September 11”, read at the conference of “Imaging and Narrating the Nation”, held by SOAS, London. 2002, Dec. Participated in the ALECSO conference held in Tunis about “Dialogue of Civilizations” 2002, June Participated in the research project of ‘the social dimensions of the feminist question’, coordinated by Center Jaques Berk. The brainstorming session was held in Rabat, Morocco. Final session was held in Cairo (CDEJ), January 2003. 2002, March Read a paper entitled ‘Censorship and Globalization’ at al-Mada festival held in Damascus, Syria.

8 2001, July Attended the international interdisciplinary conference held in Bath Spa University College (July 6-8), entitled ‘Cultural Studies Between Politics and Ethics’ 2001, March Attended the annual meeting of the coordinating committee of AISHA (a women’s network) in Rabat, Morocco. 2000, Nov. Invited to Leiden University to attend the celebration of awarding Professor Nasr Abu Zaid the chair of Professor Cleveringa 2000, Aug. Participated in the second International Conference of the Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities held in Amman, Jordan. 2000, March Participated in a seminar about ‘Arab Feminist Discourse’ held in Tunisia by The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women. 1998, Sept. Participated in the conference of ‘African Women Leadership in the 21 century’, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1998, Jan. Iraq: participated in shooting the two documentaries directed by Hossam Ali about women and children under sanctions. 1997, July Oxford, Corpus Christi College “Teaching Poetry in non-English Speaking Countries” 1997, July “To Reveal or To Conceal: That is the question”, a paper read at BRISMES, Oxford, England. 1996, March Lahore, Pakistan: participated in launching the ASR Women’s Institute. 1996, May Washington, USA: attended “The Implementation of the Beijing Document in Muslim Countries”, a conference held in George Washington University by SIGI. 1996, April Uppsala, Sweden: attended “Promoting NGO’s Strategies”, a conference held by Uppsala University. 1995, Sept. Beijing, China: The Fourth World Conference on Women. 1994, Dec. “Fighting Bach: women and the other”, read at the third International Symposium of Cairo University.

9 1993, July Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Universities of International Summer School. 1990, July Michigan, USA: TESOL Summer Institute. 1983 Greece, Austria, France, Germany, and Italy: an academic grant from the Egyptian Government.

Memberships:

- The Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt. - Coalition of Independent Culture. - The Cultural Constitution. - The PEN (Egypt). - BRISMES, UK.

Cultural Activities:

2014-2015 Goethe Institute: Cairo Short Stories 2014, March Goethe Institute: on a panel entitled “Women’s Work, Men’s Work,” in collaboration with Germany and India. 2013, April Chaired the conference of “Women of Borders between Marginalization & Empowerment”, held in Marsa Matrouh. 2013, April Attended and submitted a paper in the International Conference held in Cairo University themed “Liberty & Human Rights.” 2012, Nov. Attended and submitted a paper in the 11th International Symposium on Comparative Literature held in Cairo University themed “Creativity & Revolution.” 2012 Member of the advisory board of Al Thakafa al- Jadida (new culture), a monthly cultural journal. 2012 Member of the Jury of Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. 2010, Nov. “The Cultural Marginalization of Women”, a paper presented in the Democracy Forum organized by The Egyptian Association For Community Participation Enhancement.

10 2010, Feb. Hosted by Al-Hurra satellite channel on the programme of “Qarib Jeddan” on the subject of the image of the whore in literature and the arts. 2009, May Member of the panel of Judges of the International Prize of Arabic Fiction (Booker), resigned in December. 2007, Jan. Joined the editorial board of the journal “Adab wa Naqd” (A monthly Cairene literary journal). 2005, March Hosted by Al Jazeera channel (the London office) for a discussion of Arundhati Roy’s The Ordinary Man’s Guide to Empire. 2004 Joined the board of the Egyptian Association of Comparative Literature. 2004, April Conducted a two-day workshop in Qenna (Upper Egypt) with young men and women to identify their needs in relation to the Youth Centers. 2004, April Hosted by Al Jazeera channel (the London office) for a discussion of my book Nation in the Narration of Arab Women Writers. 2004, March Conducted a two-day workshop in Aswan (Upper Egypt) with young men and women to identify their needs in relation to the Youth Centers. 2003 Sept- Present introducing the program of Al Bab al Maftouh (Open Door) on the Egyptian Nile Culture channel. 2003 Consultancy for a project in Menya (Dutch Embassy) 2003 Aug.-2004 Jan. Coordinated a project on violence against women with the National Council for Women in Cairo. 2002- present Enlisted as a member in the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt (committee of ‘first book’). 2002, Jan Coordinated the international conference held by the Arab Women Solidarity Association (AWSA) headed by Nawal al-Sa’dawi. 2001, Sept. 9 Training 20 women from Upper Egypt to raise consciousness in their villages. 2000 Jan. – 2001 Jan. Coordinator of “Creative Women in The Shadow”, an art project of the NWRC 1993 – 2001 Apr. member of The New Woman Research (Researcher and activist)

11 2001, Aug. 16 Orienting 30 women leaders from arbitrary districts in Cairo to ‘violence against women.’ 2001, May 15 Invited by the National Council For Woman and the Governor of Beni Soueif to give a lecture about ‘the challenges of women causes in the present’ 2001, April Training a group of women on the methodology of teaching and means of communication. 2001, April training the same group on the skills of leadership to start conducting classes about the phase of teen aging in two villages in Beni Soueif. 2000, Dec. Delivered a lecture about ‘women’s rights’ to group of young women from the arbitrary districts of Cairo. 1999, May Co-ordinator of AISHA (in Egypt), An Arab Women’s Network. 1998, Sept. Organized a workshop in Toshka, Nubia to present the preliminary results of Zahia of The South, which was a project based largely on field work in Aswan. 1996, June Gave a talk to a group of girls from the arbitrary districts in Cairo in collaboration with CEOSS. 1996, March Co-ordinated a workshop in collaboration with the British Council about the Media Watch Project. 1996, March Co-trainer with Lesley Abdella who gave a workshop in the British Council about political participation of women. 1996, March Gave a talk in Assiut (Upper Egypt), Upper Egypt on the occasion of International Women’s Day. 1996, Feb. Trainer of a 3 day workshop about women’s self-image in Minya (Upper Egypt). 1996, Jan. Organized a workshop in Menya (Upper Egypt) for young women leaders.

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