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Hanadi Al-Samman
University of Virginia
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Email: [email protected]
Secondary Phone: 434-243-4355
Middle Eastern and South Asian
University of Virginia 133 Cabell Hall, PO Box 400781
Charlottesville VA 22904-4781
United States
ABOUT
Hanadi Al-Samman is an associate professor of Arabic language and literature in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on contemporary Arabic literature, diaspora and sexuality studies, as well as transnational and Islamic feminism(s). She published several articles in Journal of Arabic Literature, Women's Studies International Forum, Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, and various edited collections. She is the co-editor of an International Journal of Middle East Studies’ special issue “Queer Affects,” 2013, The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018, Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History. New York: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2019, and author of Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women’s Writings. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015, paperback edition, 2019. She has served as the President of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS, 2017-2019).
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Arabic
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Identity/Representation
Middle East/Near East Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Fertile Crescent
Syria
Specialties
Arab Feminism
Comp Lit
Diaspora Stds
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2000 | Comp Lit | Indiana U
Abstracts
Embodying Arab Lesbian Identity Muslim Women on the Move: From Local Notoriety to Global Networks Buried Cities, Resurrected Histories, and Rhizomatic Narrative in Hoda Barakat's "The Tiller of Waters" Contested Frames: Recasting Arab Muslim Womanhood in Lalla Essaydi's Art Surviving Multiple Wa'd: Samar Yazbek's A Woman in the Crossfire Witnessing Traumas, Performing Alterity in Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire Traversing Buried Cities in Samar Yazbek’s The Crossing Mapping the Borders of the Arab Closet Towards a Queer Qur’anic Tafsir Decolonizing Queer Bodies The Politics of Sexual Insult in Civil Revolutions Strangers in My House: Conspiracy Theory of Queer Representation in Arab Media