Mary Youssef
TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
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
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Publications
Books
Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Articles
“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): 75-99.
“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. 15.3 (2021): 348-363.
"Together from Womb to Tomb: Sisters, Brother, and the Nation in Mahfouz and Kanafani" alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics: No. 43 (2023): 61-89.
"Reading Cultural Translation: Between Arabness and Americanness in two 'New Arrival' Novels." Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies. Eds. David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming in 2023.
Book Reviews
Review of Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo by Mara Naaman. International Journal of Islamic Architecture. 3.1. (2014): 201-4.
