Dina Ramadan
Phone: 845-758-7506
Email: [email protected]
At Bard since 2010, Dina A. Ramadan is assistant professor of Arabic in the Division of Languages and Literature. She holds a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University, and a BA in English and Comparative Literature from the American University in Cairo. Her teaching interests include 20th-century Arabic literature, the Arabic language, Middle Eastern cultural production (particularly film and visual arts), Arab intellectual thought, nationalism, and postcolonial theory.
Professor Ramadan’s current book project focuses on the development of the category of modern art and the relationship between aesthetics, education, and middle class subjectivity in early 20th-century Egypt. She is also conducting research on cultural and artistic initiatives during the early years of the Nasserist regime. She has served as senior editor of the Arab Studies Journal since 2010, and guest edited a themed issued on the visual arts (spring 2010). Ramadan is a founding member of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA). Articles, book chapters, and reviews published or forthcoming in Arab Studies Journal, Art Journal, Journal of Visual Culture, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and others. She has been invited to lecture on the cultural politics of the region at a number of museums and academic institutions including the New Museum, the Tate Britain and Modern, SOAS University of London, European University Institute, and the American Research Center in Egypt. For the academic year 2013–14 she was a EUME postdoctoral fellow at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien.