Ne’am Abd Elhafeez is
an assistant Professor of English literature in the faculty of Language Studies
(FLS) Arab Open University, Egypt branch, and Salzburg Global Seminar fellow.
Her research interests include recent trends in American and Arabic
literature, gender studies, digital fiction and literary theories including
postcolonial, and postmodern, and posthuman literature. She published a number
of research papers in international peer reviewed journals including Scopus indexed ones. She co-supervised several MA dissertations. She contributed in developing and
reviewing question bank for English Language Unit, FLS.
- General Course Chair of the modules
TR302 (Computer Assisted Translation), and TR304 (Translation of Official
and Legal Texts) in the Faculty of Language Studies, Arab Open University,
Egypt Branch.
- General Course Chair of the modules EL097
& EL098.
- Teaching A230, AA100, A112T,
TR102, TR103, TR304, EL122, EL121N, EL119, EL118, EL117 modules.
- Teaching EL112, EL111, and EL099
modules as a part time tutor in the Faculty of Languages Studies in AOU,
Egypt Branch from 2014- till 2016.
- An ambitious researcher in the
field of digital humanities and posthumanism who published papers in Scopus
indexed journals.
- MA co-supervisor in Faculty
of Language Studies, Arab Open University, Egypt Branch (from 2018 till
now)
- Teaching many modules in English
literature, Cultural Studies, Translation and general English.
- English Language Unit coordinator (July
2020- February 2024) coordinating English levels: EL097, EL098, EL099,
EL111, EL112 and contributing in
developing and reviewing question bank for English Language Unit, FLS.
Publications:
Peer Reviewed Articles:
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“Towards
an Egyptian Theatre: Syncretic Aesthetics in the Works of Tawfiq al-Hakim and
Yusuf Idris" World Journal of English Language. vol.15,
No.1, 2025. DOI: 10.21608/gsal.2019.121057.
·
“Decentering Human/
Recentering Posthuman: Monstrous Subjectivity in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein
in Baghdad (2013)” Jordan Journal of Modern Languages. Vol.16, No.
1, 2024, pp 183-197.Doi: https://doi.org/ 10.47012/jjmll.16.1.10.
·
“Staging Absence:
Postdramatic Aesthetics in Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life (1997/2007)&
Rabie Mroué and Linah Saneh’s 33 Rpm and Few Seconds” (2013)Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed
Journal in English Studies.
(2023). DOI: 10.21608/ttaip.2023.331309
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“Carving an Alternative Feminist
Historiography in the Digital Fictional Work of Christine Wilks’ Underbelly”Philology
73(June 2019):129-152.DOI: 10.21608/gsal.2019.121057.
·
“Cross-Cultural Tricksters: A Study of
Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water and Lee Maracle’sRavensong”,
Sahifatul Al-alsun, vol.27 (Jan.2011) 261-287.
·
“Reclaiming Female Native Voice in
selected works of Lee Maracle”, Journal of Scientific Research in Arts (Ain
Shams University: Faculty of Women). 13.4. (2012):1180-1201
Conference
Papers:
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“Confined in the
Urban Zone: Postmodern Representation of the Contemporary City in Zadie Smith’s
NW and Teju Cole’s Open City” Proceedings of the 1st
International Conference on Literature, Linguistics and Translation: Travelling Theories: Origins and
Manifestations, Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University. (March 2016):79-95.
·
“Writing from behind
Bars: Incarceration and Resistance in
Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from Women Prison and Marina NematPrisoner
of Tehran” Proceedings of the Conference: Literature and Language of
Resistance, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. (Nov. 2014):215-230.
Conferences:
·
As
a Presenter:
·
1 March, 2024, “The Unseen:
Social Invisibility of Female Body in Yusuf Idris’s Snobbism (1970)
& Nour Ibrahim’s See Me (2023)” in 3rd International Conference
Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism”, Pharos University in
Alexandria, 1-2 March, 2024.
·
21st March 2023 “Staging Absence: Postdramatic Techniques in
Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life (1997) & Rabie Mroué’s &
Lina Saneh’s 33 Rpm and Few Seconds (2013)” in the 4th
International Conference, Beyond Boundaries: Paradigm Shifts in Literature,
Linguistics and Translation, 19th-21st March.
- 31st
October 2019 “Becoming Posthuman: Politics of Embodiment in Ahmed
Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein”
in the 3rd International
Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Linguistics, Literature, Translation,
and Culture: Trends and Challenges, English Department, Faculty of Arts,
Helwan University, 29-31 October 2019.
- 21st March
2018 “Carving an Alternative Feminist Historiography in the Digital
Fiction of Christine Wilks’ Underbelly” in the 2nd International Conference
on Literature, Linguistics and Translation “Narrativity: Worlds and
Texts”, in Ain-Shams University, Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages),
Department of English, 20th- 22nd March 2018.
- 15th
November 2016 “Living to Tell the Story: Aminatta Forna’sThe Devil That Danced on the Water: A
Daughter’s Memoir &Saro-Wiwa
Noo’s Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria” in
the thirteenth International Symposium on Comparative Literature, Voices
of/from Africa, Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, English Department,
15-17th November 2016.