Najah Azzouzi, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic

Department

Modern Languages and Literatures

Biography

Professor Najah Azzouzi teaches Arabic, French, and comparative literature. She currently teaches intermediate and advanced Arabic courses at CMC's Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Her teaching approach is interdisciplinary bringing in language, history, and culture. Azzouzi works on 19^th and early-20^th-century Arabic and French literatures, particularly on the effect of French taste on elite and bourgeois Egyptian subjectivity as manifested in Arabic novels and Francophone magazines.

Teaching Interests

Arabic language, literature, and thought.

French language and Francophone literatures and cultures

19th and early-20th-century Arabic and French literatures

Research Interests

19th and early-20th-century Arabic and French literatures.

The effect of French taste on elite and bourgeois Arab subjectivity.

Arab Nahda (Renaissance) and middle-class identity in the Middle-East.

European coloniality , material culture, and modernity in 19th and early-20th-century Egypt.

Early-20th-century Arabic and French women's periodicals.

Contact:

Roberts North 214