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Carmen M.K. Gitre
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Email: cgitre@vt.edu
Dept. of History
Major Williams Hall, Rm. 431, Virginia Tech 220 Stanger St.
Blacksburg VA 24060
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Theater
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Specialties
Performance & Ident In Cairo
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2011 | History | Rutgers University
Mat.E. | 2001 | Education | Dominican University
BA | 1995 | Northwestern University
Abstracts
Performing Modernity: Theater, Politics, and the Effendi in Early-Twentieth Century Cairo Mimicry, Comedy, and the Modern Egyptian Sha'b Coffeehouses, Mimics, and the Shaping of National Identity Interwar Egypt and Surrealism in Vernacular Nonsense and Morality: Interwar Egypt and the Comedy of Najib al-Rihani France, Britain, and Cultural Control of Interwar Egypt