Mary Youssef
TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Background
Select Publications
- “Reading Cultural Translation in Two ‘New Arrival’ Arab American Novels.” Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies. Eds David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023, pp. 263-272.
- “Together from Womb to Tomb: Sisters, Brothers, and the Nation in Mahfouz and Kanafani.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43, 2023, pp. 61-89.
- Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
- “Framing the (In)sensible in Egypt’s Post-2011 Satirical Novels in The Queue and Cats of the Eluded Year.” Journal of African Literature Association/JALA, vol. 15, no. 3, 2021, pp. 348-363.
- “The Aesthetics of Difference: History and Representations of Otherness in al-Nubi and Wahat al-ghurub.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics: New Paradigms in the Study of Modern Middle Eastern Literature, no. 35, 2015, pp. 75-99.
- Review of Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo by Mara Naaman. 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
