Lecturer
Year Started at JMU: 2024
elgendnx@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, 2015
Ph.D., Department of English, University of Oklahoma, 2014. Dissertation: “The Muslim Female Body in Twenty-First-Century Discourses by Arab and Arab American Women Writers.”
M.A., Department of English, Helwan University. Thesis: “Issues of Identity in Selected Novels by Louise Erdrich.”
B.A., Department of English, Women’s College, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Professional Focuses
English Composition; English as a Second Language; English for Specific Purposes; Theory; Cultural Studies; Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature; Arab American Literature, Culture, and Film; American Literature (Civil War-present); Postcolonial and Global Literature; World Literature; Arabic Literature; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Publications
Mahmoud, Lena. "'Hyphenated Identities' in Amreekiya: An Interview with Lena Mahmoud." Michigan Quarterly Review, 28 June 2019, https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2019/06/hyphenated-identities-in-amreekiya-an
"Trickster Humour in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home: Negotiating Arab American Muslim Female Sexuality." Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 27, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-19.
Couto, Mia. "A Conversation with Mia Couto: Sexuality, Orality, and Cultural Frontiers." World Literature Today, vol. 89, no. 1, 2015, pp. 54-56.
"Timothy Morton." Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Edited by Vincent B. Leitch et al., 3rd ed., New York: W. W. Norton, April 2018.
"David Herman." Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Edited by Vincent B. Leitch et al., 3rd ed., New York: W. W. Norton, April 2018.
