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Ellen McLarney, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Asian & African Languages & Literature

Office Location: | 2204ERWIN Road 226 |
Office Phone: | 919 668 3849 |
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Teaching (Fall 2025):
- AMES 125.01, EGYPT: MOTHER OF THE WORLD
Synopsis
- Languages 207, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- AMES 295S.01, BLACK MUSLIMS
Synopsis
- Perkins 072, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- (also cross-listed as AAAS 295S.01, GSF 296S.01, ICS 222S.01, RELIGION 295S.01, RIGHTS 295S.01)
- Perkins 072, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. Columbia University 2004 M.A. Columbia University 1998 B.A. Brown University 1992
- Specialties:
- Arabic
- Research Interests: Arabic Cultural Studies, Islam, Feminist Theology, Arabic Language
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- McLarney, E, ISLAM AND RACE IN ARGENTINA, in Routledge Handbook of Islam and Race (January, 2024), pp. 188-202 [doi] [abs]
- McLarney, E; Idris, S, Black Muslims and the Angels of Afrofuturism, Black Scholar, vol. 53 no. 2 (January, 2023), pp. 30-47, Informa UK Limited [doi]
- McLarney, E, Malcolm X's Gospel, Black Perspectives (March, 2022), African American Intellectual History Society
- McLarney, E, The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb. Hoda El Shakry (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020). Pp. 235. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 9780823286355, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 54 no. 1 (February, 2022), pp. 190-191, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
- McLarney, E, The Burning House: Revolution and Black Art, Souls, vol. 23 no. 3-4 (January, 2022), pp. 185-210 [doi] [abs]
- Conferences Organized
- Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, Panel Organizer: "Islam, Gender, and Secularism", November 19, 2007
- Marketing Muslim Women Workshop, Organizer, April 23, 2007