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

  Trent 223b, TuTh 01:15 PM-03:15 PM

• AMES 151.02, Islamic awakening

  Trent 038a, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

Teaching (Spring 2010):   (typical courses)

• ARABIC 126.01, Advanced arabic Synopsis

  Carr 106, WF 01:15 PM-03:15 PM

• AMES 166.01, Egypt: mother of the world Synopsis

  Trent 038b, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

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 (Accepted, 2010) .
2. Burqa in Vogue: Fashioning Afghanistan, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 5 no. 1 (Winter, 2009) .
3. Socialist Romance of the Postcolonial Arabic Novel, Research in African Literatures, vol. 40 no. 3 (Fall, 2009) .
4. "Empire of the Machine": The Oil Industry in the Arabic Novel, boundary2, vol. 36 no. 2 (Summer, 2009) [177] .
5. Olivier Roy, Secularism Confronts Islam, Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 42:2 (2008) .

Curriculum Vitae