Nada Ayad, PhD

Education

BA, MA, University of Southern California
MA, Leeds University
PhD, University of Southern California

Biography

Nada Ayad joined the English and Communication Studies Department at FIT in 2018.  She earned her PhD from the University of Southern California in Comparative Literature.  Her research interests lie in modern and contemporary Arabic literature, women of color feminisms, theories and literatures of decolonization, and translation studies. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Translation Review, and in the edited volume Text, Context & Politics Intersections in Translation. Currently she is working on her book project, tentatively titled Domesticating the Revolution in Egyptian Womens Political Texts.

Professor Ayads other passion is translation. She has translated from the French Its about Dignity, a personal account of a university students involvement in the Arab Spring in Morocco, which appeared in the edited volume Demanding Dignity: Young Voices from the Front Lines of the Arab Revolutions. She also collaborated with the creative team at the Sawt project on a documentary film by translating from the Egyptian Arabic dialect interviews of Egyptian womens reactions to the 2011 Revolution.

Before joining FIT, she was the Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Selected Publications

"Reproducing, Mothering, and Caretaking: Forms of Resistance in Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun" Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2018, pp. 1–12.

"The Politics of Foreignizing and Domesticating English in Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun" Translation Review, vol. 95, no.1, 2016, pp. 55–66.

"Between Huda Sha’rawi’s Memoirs and Harem Years," in Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Mohammed Albakry. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2017. 113–132. 

"It's about Dignity," by Omar Radi in Demanding Dignity: Young Voices from the Front Lines of the Arab Revolutions, eds. Maytha Alhassen and Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Ashland, Ore: White Cloud, 2012. 181-88.

Courses

• EN 121 English Composition
• EN 231 Short Fiction
• EN 280B Revolutions, Uprisings, Resistance