Hanan Al-Alawi

Hanan Al-Alawi is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She holds a dual-title PhD in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Pennsylvania State University (2024). Her research focuses on bodies and power in modern Arabic, Persian, and diasporic Anglophone literature, emphasizing how marginalized communities’ embodied knowledges reshape social justice discourses across the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf, and SWANA regions.

Dr. Al-Alawi teaches courses on queer/feminist theory and movements, disability in Arab literature, and global gender representation. Her work bridges literary analysis with critical social justice frameworks, particularly addressing diasporic and postcolonial contexts.

Her published article in Feminist Formations explores Mona Kareem’s feminist imaginary through the lens of diasporic literature, highlighting themes of spectral archives and embodied resistance. Details on grants, advising roles, or lab affiliations are not specified in the provided text.