Ellen McLarney
Associate Professor

Office Location: 2204 Erwin Road Room 226, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: (919) 668-3849
Email Address: ellenmc@duke.edu
Web Page: http://sites.duke.edu/dukeinthearabworld2013/2013/06/25/human-language/

Specialties:
Arabic

Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004
M.A., Columbia University, 1998
B.A., Brown University, 1992

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

Typical Courses Taught:

• AALL 166, Egypt: mother of the world Synopsis

  (EgyptSyllabus.doc, 81408 bytes)

• AALL 195, Islam and feminism

  (ISLAM&FEMINISM.doc, 106496 bytes)

• AALL 178, Local islams Synopsis

  (LocalIslams.pdf, 137207 bytes)

• ARABIC 126, Advanced arabic Synopsis

  (Arabic126Syllabus.pdf, 98492 bytes)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. McLarney, E, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND THE POWER OF ADAB, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 48 no. 01 (February, 2016), pp. 25-46 [doi]  [abs].
2. E.A. McLarney, The Redemption of Women’s Liberation: Reviving Qasim Amin, in Transformations of Modern Arab Thought: Intellectual History after the Liberal Age, edited by Max Weiss and Jens Hanssen (2016), Princeton University Press .
3. E.A. McLarney, On Constitutions and Women’s Rights: Egypt in 2012 and 2014, in Women's Rights in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring, edited by Fatima Sadiqi (2016) .
4. McLarney, EA, Soft force: Women in Egypt's Islamic awakening (2015), pp. 1-312, Princeton University Press [html]  [abs].
5. McLarney, E, Zaynab al-Ghazali, in Encyclopaedia of Islam (2015), Brill .

Curriculum Vitae