Caroline Seymour-Jorn is Professor of Comparative Literature and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology (Middle East emphasis) from the University of Chicago. Her research combines anthropological, literary and art critical approaches to examine Arabic literature and art. Her book on the 1970s generation of women writers in Egypt, entitled Cultural Criticism in Egyptian Women’s Writing: Anthropological and Literary Perspectives, appeared in the 2011 Syracuse University Press Middle East Series. Her research in Egypt has been supported by two Fulbright grants. Her 2021 book Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt explores innovative artists and writers in the Arab world’s most populous country and the way in which they engage, contest and struggle with a post-revolutionary Egyptian modernity. Seymour-Jorn is also currently working on the Muslim Milwaukee Project, a collaboration with Sunni Muslim leaders that explores the basic dimensions of the Milwaukee Muslim community, and describes how Muslims negotiate the racialized landscape of Milwaukee. She is also writing a monograph entitled Arab Literary Selves in the Global Arena. This book explores the writing and literary strategies of three Jordanian or Palestinian-Jordanian writers: Zahra `Umar (b. 1938), Leila al-Atrash (b. 1951), and Samiha Khrais (b. 1956).

Literature

Comparative

Ethnic American Studies

Gender/Women's Studies

Identity/Representation

All Middle East

Egypt

Maghreb

Anthro Of Egypt

Anthro Of Lit

Mod Arabic Lit

Arabic (advanced)

Greek (advanced)