Faculty Profile

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Mary Youssef

TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Background


Select Publications

  • Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies. Eds David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023, pp. 263-272.
  • Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43, 2023, pp. 61-89.
  • Journal of African Literature Association/JALA, vol. 15, no. 3, 2021, pp. 348-363.
  • Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics: New Paradigms in the Study of Modern Middle Eastern Literature, no. 35, 2015, pp. 75-99.
  • . International Journal of Islamic Architecture, vol. 3. no. 1, 2014, pp. 201-4.

Education

  • PhD, MA, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • BA, Cairo University

Research Interests

  • The Contemporary Egyptian Novel
  • Modern Arabic Literature
  • Arab Diasporic Literature
  • African Literature
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Migration Studies
  • Race Studies
  • Gender Studies

Teaching Interests

  • Modern Arabic Literature
  • Arab American and Diasporic Literature
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Translation Theory
  • The Arabic Language