Hoda Elsadda

 

Professor Hoda Elsadda currently holds a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University, and is Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She has previously held the position of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts, at Cairo University, Egypt. In 1992, she co-founded and co-edited Hagar, an interdisciplinary journal in women’s studies published in Arabic. In 1997, she co-founded and is currently Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Women and Memory Forum, a research organization which focuses on reading Arab cultural history from a gender-sensitive perspective. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies IJMES (2005- present); member of the Advisory Board of the Durham Modern Languages Series (2009-); member of the Middle East Panel in the British Academy (2008-present); Associate Editor of the Online Edition of the Encyclopedia of Women in Muslim Cultures published by Brill (2006 – present); member of the Board of Directors of The Global Fund for Women(2009-); Consultant Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Second Edition,(2006-2009); member of the Advisory Committee, The Anna Lindh Euro- Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (2004-2007); and member of the Core Team, The Arab Human Development Report, UNDP in 2003. She was a fellow at the International Centre for Research on Women in Washington DC in 1997 and World Yale Fellow in 2003.

 

Research Projects: Blogging in Egypt and Palestine: The Creation of New Cultural Public Spheres, Gender and Nation in the Literature of the 1990s in Egypt

 

Links: www.wmf.org.eg, www.casaw.ac.uk

Selected Publications

 

    * al-mar’a al-’arabiyya mawdu’an l-il dirasa: tahlil naqdi li taqrir al-tanmiya al-’insaniyya al-’arabi 2005 (The Arab woman as an object of study: A critical reading of the Arab Human Development Report 2005) in ‘intaj al-ma’rifa ‘an al-’alam al-’arabi, (The production of knowledge on the Arab world) edited and introduced by Hoda Elsadda. Cairo, al-majlis al-’ala lil thaqafa, 2009.

    * “Egypt,” Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide 1873-1999. Edited Radwa Ashour, Ferial Ghazoul and Hasna Mekdashi, trans. By Mandy McClure. Cairo and New York, The American University Press, 2008. The article was first published in Arabic in 2004 as “Al-Kitaba al-`Ibda’iyya lil Nisa’ fi Misr” (Women’s Creative Writing in Egypt) in Thakira lil Mustaqbal: Mawsu’at al-Mar’a al-`Arabiyya (The Memory of the Future: An Encyclopaedia of Arab Women’s Writings). Cairo, Nour and The Supreme Council of Culture, pp.7-59.

    * Imaging the ‘New Man’: Gender and Nation in Arab Literary Narratives in the Early Twentieth Century, in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 3: 2, pp. 31-55, Spring 2007.

    * Gendered Citizenship: Discourses on Domesticity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century, in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World 4:1 pp.1-28, 2006.

    * Discourses on Women’s Biographies and Cultural Identity: Twentieth Century Representations of the Life of `Aisha Bint Abi Bakr, in Feminist Studies, 27:1 (Spring), pp.37-64, 2001.