Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
University of Chicago
Department of Comparative Literature
1010 East 59th Street, Classics 116
Chicago
IL
60637
United States
ABOUT
Hoda El Shakry is an Assistant Professor of Comparative, Arabic and African Literatures. Her teaching and research interests lie in modern literature, criticism and visual culture of the Middle East and North Africa. Her scholarship traverses the fields of modern Arabic and Francophone North African literature, Mediterranean studies, Islam and secular criticism, postcolonial studies and narrative theory. Her current book project explores literary engagements with the Qur’an and Islamic Thought in twentieth century Arabophone and Francophone fiction of the Maghreb. Her forthcoming research projects include a study of 20th century Maghrebi critical thought. Before coming to Penn State, Hoda El Shakry was an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Colonialism
Islamic Thought
Maghreb Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Algeria
Islamic World
Maghreb
Mauritania
Morocco
Tunisia
Specialties
Comparative Literature
Postcolonial Studies
Languages
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Arabic (fluent)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| Comparative Literature
| UCLA
BA
| 2001
| Comparative Literature
| Rutgers
Abstracts
The Poetic Landscape of Islamic Thought: Creation and Existence in the Literary World of Mahmud Al-Mas'adi
Novelistic Discourse and Critique: The Ethics and Aesthetics of 'Adab' in the Maghreb
