معرفی
Ikram Masmoudi is an Associate Professor of Arabic Studies at the University of Delaware, housed in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures within the College of Arts & Sciences. She chairs the Arabic Program and co-directs the UD Winter Study Abroad Program in Tunisia/Morocco. Educated in Tunisia and France, she holds a Ph.D. in Textual Linguistics and Francophone Literature from Université Stendhal (Grenoble III) and the Agrégation d’arabe (French state teaching diploma). Her research focuses on modern Arabic literature, Iraqi war narratives, literary translation, and gender studies.
Her major works include War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction (2015), analyzing post-2003 Iraqi novels through Giorgio Agamben’s theories, and translations of Iraqi author Hadiya Hussein’s Beyond Love (2012) and Shakir Noori’s The Green Zone. She has taught at Duke University, Princeton University, and Middlebury College, with expertise across Arabic language pedagogy and cultural studies.
Recent scholarship examines Gothic poetics in Iraqi fiction, gender violence against Yazidi women, and migration narratives in Arabic literature. As of Spring 2019, she was on sabbatical, continuing her exploration of Iraqi literature’s engagement with war trauma and political violence.
