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Dr Elisabeth Kendall
Elisabeth Kendall studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she gained a first class degree in Oriental Studies (Arabic) in 1993 and a doctorate in modern Arabic literature in 1997. She was a research fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, and visiting fellow at Harvard University before teaching Arabic full-time again at St. Antony's College, Oxford. She moved to Edinburgh University as lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies in 2003 and assumed the post of Lecturer in Arabic and Turkish as from 2005.
In 2008, she was appointed Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a collaborative initiative comprising the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester and funded by the joint UK government research councils.
Academic Awards
- Laming Research Fellowship, Oxford University 1997
- U. S. National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarship 1997
- Kennedy Scholarship to Harvard 1996
- James Mew Research Scholarship 1994
- Schacht Memorial Prize, Oxford University 1993
- British Academy 3-Year Award 1993
- James Mew Senior Prize in Arabic, Oxford University 1993
- Domus Scholarship, Pembroke College, Oxford 1991
- Pembroke College Book Prizes 1991, 1992, 1993
Research Interests
Modern Arabic and Turkish literature, especially experimental activity; the cultural press and expressions of modernity in Arabic and Turkish.
Selected publications
"Between Politics and Literature", in Modernity and Culture, eds. Prof. L. Tarazi Fawaz & C. A. Bayly (Columbia University Press, 2002). A comparative study of early avant-garde literature in Ottoman and Arabic, within the dynamic of the port cities, Istanbul and Alexandria.
"Media Arabic: An Essential Vocabulary (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005). Also published as The Top 1,000 Words for Understanding Media Arabic (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005).
The Theoretical Roots of Avant-Gardism in Egypt", Edebiyat, 2003, Vol. 14, No. 1 & 2, pp.39-57. An application of western avant-garde theory to the Egyptian context.
Galiri 68: Afaq wa Ahdaf (Cairo, 1997). An assessment of the horizons and objectives of 1960s modernist short story writers in Egypt.
"The Marginal Voice", Journal of Islamic Studies, July 1997. An overview of modern literary evolution in Egypt through journalism from the inception of the press to the 1960s.
Literature, Journalism and the Avant-Garde: Intersection in Egypt.
(London and New York: Routledge, 2006)
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