Prof. Maha abdel Moneim
4 Building 13
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maha.emara@bue.edu.eg

Professor Maha Emara joined BUE in September 2017. Currently she is the Head of Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. From 1982 till 2017 before joining BUE, she has been teaching at the English Department of the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams University. 

Roles and Responsibilities (Ain Shams University): 

There she taught many courses among which are: 
1982 - 2017: Courses in English Literature for undergraduate and post-graduate students. 
1999 – 2005: TOEFEL at Ain Shams Centre for Public Services and Development.     
1997 – 2001: Business English at Ain Shams Faculty of Commerce English Section. 
1997 – 1998: English language at Ain Shams Faculties of Pharmacy and Dentistry. 
M.A. and Ph.D. Vivas: 
She participated in several vivas.

Journal Reviewer:
Ain Shams University
Cairo University 

Education

2017  Full Professor 
2009  Associate Professor 
1995  Lecturer 
1989  Assistant Lecturer 
1982  Demonstrator.
University Groups
Fields of Interests
Modern and Post-modern English novel Multi-disciplinary studies Literary trauma theory Postcolonial studies Postmodern historiography and feminist studies including feminist science fiction and ecofeminism Modern and Post-modern English novel Multi-disciplinary studies Literary trauma theory Postcolonial studies Postmodern historiography and feminist studies including feminist science fiction and ecofeminism
Responsibilities
Head of the English Language and Literature Department. Responsibilities include: Representing the Department both within the Faculty and the University. Working collaboratively with academic staff on a shared vision for the Department. Ensuring academic validation of programmes and adoption of UK academic quality assurance standards. Effective management of academic and administrative staff, as well as hiring new staff. Communicating the University’s strategic goals, regulations and policy to staff members. Meeting with students to assess strengths and challenges in their academic and professional lives. Supervising examination period tasks. Undertaking other duties as may be required by the Faculty Dean.
Publications
Anita Desai’s Fire on The Mountain: An Ecofeminist Reading.” ASSRJ Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, vo. 4, no. 2, 2017. “Octavia Butler’s Kindred: a Study in Postmemory and Trauma.” The International Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, vol. 4, issue 11, November 2016 “And the One Doesn’t Stir without the Other’’: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother and Hanan Al- Shaykh’s The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story. International Journal of Social Science Studies, vol. 4, no. 9, September 2016. Redfame Publishing. “Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day: A Historiographical Approach.” English Language and Literature Studies, volume 5, number 4, December 2015. “Between Two Worlds: Ethnicity, Identity and Arab-American Self Empowerment in Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent.” ANNALS, Ain Shams University, vol.43,January-March, 2015.