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 ālittĆ©rature de tĆ©moignageā with an interdisciplinary approach establishing textual, performative, cultural and psychoanalytical dialogues.
My research interests focus on intermediality in performance and how to āstageā violence and trauma especially in middle eastern plays as well as interdisciplinary ways to ātranslateā 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 beginnersā 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. Ā« Incendies de Wajdi Mouawad : un carrefour traumatique Ā» in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de LittĆ©rature ComparĆ©e(CRCL/RCLC) for the issue on āBridging Divides, 2020 (forthcoming)
Hussein, Mai. “La Performance du corps ou le corps de la performance dans Ā« Seuls Ā» de Wajdi Mouawad” in Sinestesieonline : Il Parlaggio, 2020 (forthcoming)
Hussein, Mai. āTHE DRAMA OF LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGE OF DRAMA IN WAJDI MOUAWADāS PLAY INCENDIESā. Book of Proceedings for The Power of Language Conference – University of Shkoder, Albania, 2020.
Hussein, Mai. āSeuls ou la palette intermĆ©diale du traducteurā. 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. āPerforming Translocal Memory: Testament and Testimony in Contemporary Theatre & Performance.ā Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art/ Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte ContemporĆ”neo, vol. 2, n.2, 2014, pp. 139-161.