Mary Youssef

Assistant Professor of Arabic

Contact Information

Office: 1115
Phone: 607-777-3092
Email: myoussef@binghamton.edu

Interests

Gender, Language, and Minority Literatures
Modern and Contemporary Arabic Novels (Realist, Nationalist, and Postcolonial)
Literature and Theory

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

PhD in African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dissertation: Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: The Representation of Minority Groups in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel. A study of novels written by contemporary Egyptian writers that depict Egyptian marginal communities (such as the indigenous and immigrant ethnic and religious minority groups) since the rise of Arab-Muslim nationalism in the early twentieth century.

University of Cairo

Postgraduate Diploma in English Translation
B.A. in English Literature and Language

Conference Papers

2011

2011 " ͨAlā'al-'Aswānī's Prediction of the Egyptian Revolution in Limādhā Lā Yathūru al-Miṣriyyūn" (September)
2011 The "Arab Spring" and the Humanities Symposium. Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2010

2010 "Egypt's Others in Bahā'Tāhir's Fiction." First Annual Conference of University of Wisconsin and Michigan State Universities on Middle East Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (May)

2009

2009 "The Reading of Cosmopolitanism in Times of Conflict in Bahā'Tāhir's Khāltī Safiyya wa al-Dayr and Wāḥat al-Ghurūb" (March)
2009 Resurgent Arabic Literatures Seminar, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University