Hoda Elsadda
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Cairo University
About
Hoda Elsadda is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University. She previously held a Chair in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at Manchester University, and was Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World in the UK. She was Carnegie Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University in 2014-2015. In 1992, she co-founded and co-edited Hagar, an interdisciplinary journal in women's studies published in Arabic. In 1997, she co-founded and is currently Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Women and Memory Forum (www.wmf.org.eg), a research organization which focuses on reading Arab cultural history from a gender-sensitive perspective. Her research interests are in the areas of gender studies, women's rights, cultural studies, comparative literature, oral narratives and women's writings. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008.