Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Duke University
Box 90414, 2204 Erwin Road
Durham
NC
27708
United States
ABOUT
Ellen McLarney is an associate professor of Arabic language, literature, and culture in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department at Duke University. She first learned Arabic as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco where she spent two years. Her book Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening was published by Princeton University Press in 2015. McLarney has been a Stanford Humanities Fellow affiliated with Stanford’s Department of Religious Studies, a Hurford Family Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and a Fulbright Fellow in both Tunisia and Argentina. She was editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies between 2018 and 2022 and directed Duke's Middle East Studies Center and the Duke Islamic Studies Center between 2019 and 2022. She also has secondary appointments in Women’s Studies and International Comparative Studies, has directed the Arab language program at Duke, and co-directed the Duke in the Arab World study abroad program in Morocco and Egypt.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Comparative
Gender/Women's Studies
Islamic Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Algeria
Egypt
Morocco
Spain
Specialties
Gender Issues
Race, Islam, And Cultural Production
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Japanese (elementary)
Spanish (advanced)
Latin (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2004
| ME & Asian Lang & Cult
| Columbia U
Abstracts
Taswir: Vision and Imagination in Islamic Print Media
Islamic Adab: Technologies of Imagining and Envisioning the Sacred
Connecting the Community: Islamic Media and Institutions in Argentina
Envisioning the Global South: Visual Art between the Middle East and Latin America
Qur'an Tafsir in Popular Culture: Bint al-Shati's Literary Interpretations
