Anny Gaul Georgetown University, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies Poulton Hall 200, Washington, DC 20057 ann.gaul@gmail.com annygaul.com Education 2018 (expected) Ph.D, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University Concentration: Modern Arabic Literature Minor fields: History of Women & Gender in the Middle East and North Africa; Affect, Materiality & the Senses 2012 M.A., Arab Studies Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 2012 Concentration: Culture and Society (Distinction) 2007 B.A., Humanities, Yale University (Distinction in the Major, cum laude ) Fellowships and Awards 2016-17 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (Egypt, Morocco) 2016-17 Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Multi-Country Research Grant (Egypt, Morocco) 2016 American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Pre-Dissertation Research Grant 2015 Cherwell Studentship Award, Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery (research stipend + travel expenses to present findings at symposium) 2014-16 Merit-Based Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship Georgetown University 2013-14 Center for Arabic Study Abroad Fellowship/Center for Advanced Arabic Study in Cairo Fellowship, American University in Cairo 1
2012-13 Fulbright U.S. Student Research Grant, Fulbright Critical Language Enhancement Award, Jordan 2010-12 Merit-Based Scholarship, Arab Studies, Georgetown University 2011-12 Graduate Research Assistantship, Georgetown University 2011 Critical Languages Scholarship, U.S. Department of State Tangier, Morocco 2011, 2012, Conference Travel Grants awarded by Center for Contemporary Arab 2014, 2015 Studies, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University Academic Publications Shahrazad s Pharmacy: Women s Bodies of Knowledge in the Tale of the Porter and the Three Ladies, Middle Eastern Literatures (forthcoming). Joking and Poking: Egyptian Political Satire, co-authored chapter in Arts and the Uprising in Egypt, edited by Samia Mehrez and Mona Abaza, American University in Cairo Press (forthcoming, 2017). Fava Beans and Béchamel: Translating Egyptian Food as Modern Cuisine, Proceedings of the 2015 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, Prospect Books (forthcoming, 2016). Talks and Conference Presentations Tasting Happiness: Gender, Class, and the Egyptian Kitchen, at Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier, organized by the Arab-German Young Academy, at the American University of Beirut, May 12-14, 2016. Kitab Abla Nazira and Egyptian Cuisine in the 1930s, for panel The View from the Edge: Decentered Histories of Modern Egypt, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 22, 2015. Fava Beans and Béchamel: Translating Egyptian Food into Modern Cuisine, Cherwell Prize address at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, Oxford, UK, July 5, 2015. 2
Flowers as Pharmacy: Engendering Subjectivities in the Thousand and One Nights, at The Thousand and One Nights: Sources, Transformations, and the Relationship with Literature, the Arts and the Sciences, Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, April 17, 2015. Representing Protest, Performing Dissent: How Satire Translates, Presents, and Performs Protest in Egypt, at Translation and the Many Languages of Resistance, Townhouse Gallery in conjunction with Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK, and the University of Manchester, UK, Cairo, Egypt, March 7, 2015. Peace Corps Morocco: The Volunteer Experience, guest talk, NSLI-Y Rabat Summer Arabic Program, June 24, 2014. Al-Turāth al-ghadhā īal-maṣrīwa Kitāb Abla Nazīra, (Egyptian Food Heritage and the Abla Nazira Cookbook) presentation (in Arabic) at the American University in Cairo s EURECA conference, April 28, 2014. Shahrazad s Pharmacy: Literary Objects that Delight and Instruct, Middle East Studies Center, American University in Cairo, March 19, 2014. Gender Empowerment Discourse in Jordanian NGOs: A Study in Difference, Transformation, and Power, presentation at Moroccan-American Commission for Educational & Cultural Exchange (Fulbright) Enrichment Seminar, Rabat, Morocco, March 13, 2013. Translating Tolerance: The Rhetoric of Muhammad VI of Morocco and the Amazigh Question (paper presented in absentia), Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 17-20, 2012. Murder and Mandate in Mesopotamia: Public British Policies and Private British Lives, at Middle East History and Theory Conference, The University of Chicago, May 4-5, 2012. Language and the Amazigh Question: Charting a Course for Minority Rights, at Les Changements Linquistiques au Maroc: Bilan et Évaluation, Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco, October 27-29, 2011. Selected Essays and Reviews 3
Egypt, Laughter, and the History of Emotions, on the History of Emotions Blog, Queen Mary Centre for the History of Emotions, March 7, 2016. Cooking with Naguib Mahfouz, Arabic Literature (in English), February 29, 2016. Review of the 2015 DC Palestinian Film & Arts Festival (with Nour Joudah), Washington City Paper Arts Desk blog, October 9, 2015. Translation as Mourning, Translation as a Form of Cultural Interrogation, Arabic Literature (in English), June 29, 2014. Apothecary Tales: Pharmacies in Today s Cairo, for Muftah.org, April 28, 2014. Mediating Morocco, essay exploring images of women on Moroccan postcards from the French Protectorate through the present, wherever: an out of place journal, January 2013. Anthropology and the Peace Corps: Five Decades of Learning to Learn About Culture, WorldView magazine, Spring 2013. Review of Arabic, Self and Identity: A Study in Conflict and Displacement, by Yasir Suleiman. Co-written with Francesco Sinatora, Al-ʿArabiyya, Fall 2012. Hope, Translated, review of Laila Lalami s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and Tahar Ben Jelloun s A Palace in the Old Village, Jadaliyya, August 3, 2011. From Dance to Transcendence, review of Dunia: Kiss Me Not on the Eyes, Jadaliyya, June 13, 2011. Research and Teaching Experience 2014-2016 Arabic Teaching Assistant Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University 2011-12 Research Assistant to Professor Judith Tucker, Georgetown University Conducted primary and secondary source research (in Arabic and French) in support of research project on gender and piracy in the early modern Mediterranean 2010-12 Research Assistant, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World 4
Affairs, Georgetown University Researched and wrote report on religious and cultural dimensions of maternal mortality, created and implemented a teaching module for discussion of FGM/C in an undergraduate seminar Other Professional Experience 2013-present Professional freelance translator (Arabic-English) Translations have been published in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Jadaliyya, The Legal Agenda, and Rowayat, among others. 2014-2016 Food Scholarship, Ferdos Gourmet Co-founder, Middle Eastern pastry company based in London, UK Wrote copy documenting food histories of products 2011 Editorial Assistant to Dr. Rania Sweis Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University Edited book manuscript on transnational humanitarianism in Egypt 2007-2009 Small Business Development Volunteer; Chair, Gender and Development Committee, Peace Corps, Morocco Worked with weavers in a rural community development association to improve product quality and access new markets; designed and conducted trainings in gender analysis for 40 other volunteers; redesigned and implemented new training module in sexual harassment issues for volunteers. Languages Arabic Amazigh French Modern Standard Arabic (full professional proficiency) Moroccan, Levantine, and Egyptian colloquial (advanced speaking proficiency) Tashelhit (speaking proficiency) Reading proficiency 5