Ellen A. McLarney
Assistant Professor

Office Location: 227 Trent Hall
Office Phone: (919) 668-3849, (919) 668-2603
Email Address: ellenmc@duke.edu

Specialties:
Arabic

Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004
MPhil, Columbia University, 2000
MA, Columbia University, 1998

Research Categories: Arabic literature and language; cultural studies of the Middle East; feminist theologies in Islam

Teaching (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

• arabic 125.01, Advanced arabic Synopsis

  French sci 2237, TuTh 01:15 PM-03:15 PM

• Ames 151.02, Islamic awakening

  Bio sci 113, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Teaching (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

• Tba, Islamic awakening: revival and reform

  (IslamicAwakening.doc, 56832 bytes)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Private is Political: Women and Family in Intellectual Islam, Special Issue on Arab Feminisms, edited by Anastasia Valassopoulos, Feminist Theory (Submitted, 2010) [PDF].
2. Burqa in Vogue: Fashioning Afghanistan, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 5 no. 1 (Winter, 2009) .
3. "Empire of the Machine": The Oil Industry in the Arabic Novel, boundary2, vol. 36 no. 2 (Accepted, Summer, 2009) [PDF].
4. Socialist Romance of the Postcolonial Arabic Novel, Research in African Literatures (Accepted, 2009) [PDF].
5. Olivier Roy, Secularism Confronts Islam, Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 42:2 (2008) .

Curriculum Vitae