Dr. Mai Hussein
Assistant Professor, Literature and Language
My area of interest is French and francophone literature, and I specialize in theatre, women writing, post-dramatic, post-colonialism, migrant and exile literature, post-traumatic writings and 鈥渓itt茅rature de t茅moignage鈥� with an interdisciplinary approach establishing textual, performative, cultural and psychoanalytical dialogues.
My research interests focus on intermediality in performance and how to 鈥渟tage鈥� violence and trauma especially in middle eastern plays as well as interdisciplinary ways to 鈥渢ranslate鈥� the post-colonial through theatre either the textual or the performative aspect.
I teach language courses from beginners level to advanced, literature courses including advanced practical dissertation writing, written expression, French children literature, French and Francophone literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries, Reading Literary French and francophone texts as well as French and Francophone culture. I always welcome to guide students in Independent Study (STA 495) in any of my research areas. Moreover, I teach Arabic Language for beginners鈥� courses.
Education
- PhD, French, 2014, University of Alberta
- MA, French, 2003, University of Alexandria, Egypt
- BA, French, 1992, University of Alexandria, Egypt
Select Publications
Hussein, Mai. 芦 Incendies de Wajdi Mouawad : un carrefour traumatique 禄 in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Litt茅rature Compar茅e(CRCL/RCLC) for the issue on 鈥淏ridging Divides, 2020 (forthcoming)
Hussein, Mai. “La Performance du corps ou le corps de la performance dans 芦 Seuls 禄 de Wajdi Mouawad” in Sinestesieonline : Il Parlaggio, 2020 (forthcoming)
Hussein, Mai. 鈥淭HE DRAMA OF LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF DRAMA IN WAJDI MOUAWAD鈥橲 PLAY INCENDIES鈥�. Book of Proceedings for The Power of Language Conference – University of Shkoder, Albania, 2020.
Hussein, Mai. 鈥淪euls ou la palette interm茅diale du traducteur鈥�. Translating the Postcolonial in Multilingual Contexts. PoCoPages, Horizons anglophones, edited by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Srilata Ravi. French university press Pulm, 2017, pp. 237-262.
Hussein, Mai and Mounsef, Donia. 鈥淧erforming Translocal Memory: Testament and Testimony in Contemporary Theatre & Performance.鈥� Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art/ Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contempor谩neo, vol. 2, n.2, 2014, pp. 139-161.