Hanan Al-Alawi
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies
Pronouns: she/her
Email: halalawi@wisc.edu
Address:
3409 Sterling Hall
Dr. Hanan Al-Alawi is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies. She holds a dual-title PhD in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the Pennsylvania State University (2024). In her interdisciplinary research, she explores questions of bodies and power in modern Arabic, Persian, and diasporic Anglophone literature. She focuses on how the embodied knowledges of historically marginalized communities reimagine discourses of social justice across the Arabian Peninsula, Persian Gulf, and the broader region of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). Dr. Al-Alawi teaches courses on queer and feminist theory and movements in the US and beyond, disability in women’s Arab/ic literature, and cultural representation of gender and women across the globe.
Her article “A Spectral Archive: Mona Kareem’s Feminist Imaginary in Ināth al-Ashbāḥ (Femme Ghosts)” was published in Feminist Formations.