Marilyn Booth, "Fiction's Farflung Histories, The Newspaper's Local Scandals: Writing Gender Politics in 1890s Egypt"

Marilyn Booth is Associate Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent scholarly book is

May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt (2001);

other recent and forthcoming publications focus on aesthetics and historicity

in early Arabic feminist writing including the early Arabic novel, masculinities

in Egyptian nationalist discourse, theorizing popular culture, Arabic dialect

poetry, theory and practice of literary translation, and literature and human

rights. She has translated numerous works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic,

including Disciples of Passion and The Tiller of Waters by Hoda

Barakat, Leaves of Narcissus by Somaya Ramadan, The Open Door

by Latifa al-Zayyat, and My Grandmother’s Cactus: Stories by Egyptian

Women.