Hanan Elsayed teaches French and Arabic languages and literatures.
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Professor Elsayed specializes in 20th-century and 21st-century literature in French. She has a long-standing interest in Francophone literature from the Maghreb, West Africa and the Middle East, Arabic literature, history, and medieval Arabic scholarship. Her first book examined the different ways authors from the Maghreb use historical and religious sources to present fictional accounts of early Islam in French. Her interdisciplinary research continues to explore the interplay of history and literature, representations of Islam, Sufism, colonial legacy, and contemporary France.
Selected Publications
Books
Elsayed, Hanan. L鈥橦istoire sacr茅e de l鈥橧slam dans la fiction maghr茅bine. Paris: Karthala, 2016.
With Warren Montag, eds. Balibar and the Citizen Subject. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh UP, 2017.
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
Hanan Elsayed. 鈥淩ace.鈥 in Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice. Eds. Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris, Jacques Lezra. New York, NY: Fordham UP, 2020. Pp. 193-210.
Hanan Elsayed. 鈥淭he Trial of Meursault: Inquests and Counter-Inquests.鈥 Romanic Review 111.2 (2020): 316-332.
Elsayed, Hanan. 鈥Tombeau d'Ibn Arabi: 鈥業t is Ibn Arabi speaking鈥.鈥 Expressions maghr茅bines 16. 2 (2017): 117-134.
Elsayed, Hanan. 鈥La Haine: Falling in Slow Motion.鈥 In Balibar and the Citizen Subject. Eds. Warren Montag and Hanan Elsayed. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh UP, 2017. Pp. 235-252.
With Warren Montag. Introduction. Balibar and the Citizen Subject. Eds. Warren Montag and Hanan Elsayed. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh UP, 2017. Pp. 1-33.
Elsayed, Hanan 鈥淓arly Islamic Historiography: The Background and Sources of Loin de M茅dine.鈥 Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar. Ed. Anne Donadey. New York, NY: PMLA, 2017.
Elsayed, Hanan. 鈥淐oran et subversion dans Le Silence de Mahomet.鈥 French Review 88.2 (2014): 89-102.
Elsayed, Hanan. 鈥溾楽ilence鈥 and Historical Tradition in Assia Djebar鈥檚 Loin de M茅dine.鈥 Research in African Literatures 44.1 (2013): 91-105.
Courses
Representations of French Colonial History (French 363)
Arab Francophone Works (French 301)
Intermediate French I (French 201)
Perspectives from the Arab World (Arabic 275)
Arabic through Media and Film I& II (Arabic 301 & 302)
Intermediate Arabic I & II (Arabic 201 & 202)
Core Seminars
Islam and Literature (CSP 25)
Muslim Women Narratives (CSP 57)