Rasha Ismail

Professor of Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literatures

Cairo University - Faculty of Arts

Department of Spanish Language and Literatures

E-mail: drarasha@hotmail.com

Academic Background

  • Ph.D. in Spanish Modern Literatures.

       Excellent with honors (Cum Laude). 

Departamento de Filología española II, Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España. June 1999.

Dissertation Title: La poética del espacio en la narrativa de Carmen Martín Gaite.

  • B.A. Spanish Language and Literature.

    Excellent with honors.

Department of Spanish Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt. June 1992.

Academic, Research and Professional Experience

  • August 2014-present:

    Head of the Department of Spanish Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

  • August 2014-present:

    Coordinator of the Spanish Translation Program, Cairo University Open Education Center

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  • April 2013- May 2014:

    Director of the National Center for Translation, Ministry of Culture, Egypt.

  • May, 2011-March 2013:

    Head of the Department of Spanish Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

  • February, 2011-March 2013:

    Coordinator of the Spanish Translation Program, Cairo University Open Education Center

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  • May, 2011-present:

    Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literatures.

  • March 2005-May 201:

    Associate Professor of Spanish Literatures.

  • March, 2000-March 2005:

    Assistant Professor of Spanish Literatures.

  • September 1992- 1999:

    Lecturer of Hispanic Literatures, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

  • Undergraduate courses taught:

 

  • Introduction to Spanish Literature
  • Medieval Spanish Literature.
  • Spanish Modern Drama.
  • Spanish Modern and Contemporary Poetry.
  • 19th and 20th Century Spanish Novel.
  • Translation (Arabic-Spanish and Vs).
  • Literary Criticism.
  • Theory of Literature.
  • Introduction to Literary Analysis.

 

  • Postgraduate courses taught:

 

  • Western Thought and Spanish Literature Evolution.
  • Short Story between Theory and Practice.
  • Techniques of Novel Criticism.
  • Spanish Civil War Literature.
  • Spanish Civil War Novel.
  • Novel in Spain and Latin America.

Areas of Academic Interest

  • Spanish and Latin-American Novel, 20th. Century.
  • Spanish and Latin-American Novel of the New Millennium.
  • Spanish Civil War Novel.
  • Translation.
  • Short Story.

 

Translations

  • 2009, Literature in Brazil

    , Book of the Almajalla Alarabeya, number, 386, Marcha 2009.  (Arabic translations from Spanish of selective Contemporary and Modern short stories and Poetry of Brazilian Literature. The oficial Book distribuid in Riyadh Bookfair, Saudi Arabia, 2009. )

 

Conferences and Presentations (some of)

  • 20-22 Diciembre, 1993: “Estado actual del cuento corto”, Ayuntamiento de Aranjuez, España.
  • March 1994: “Novela y cine: diferencias y semejanzas”, Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  • 3-7 July 1995: “Curso de filología”, Aranjuez, España. A course organized by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  • August 1995: “Curso de verano”, Santander, España. A course organized by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  • 5-10 July 1996: “La novela española moderna y contemporánea”, Summer course organized by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Aranjuez, España.
  • May, 1997: Co-organizer of the course, “La retórica del espacio en la narrativa femenina”, organized by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Instituto de la Mujer, 22 Nov. 1996-16 May. 1997.
  • April 2000: “La novela en España y Americalatina”, Faculty of Al-alsun, Ain-Shams University, Egypt.
  • 2001: “V Simposio International de la Civilización Andalusí” , Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. (Preperation Comité)
  • March, 2002: “Poesia española y hispanoamericana moderna y contemporánea”,  (Preperation Comité)
  • March, 2002: “Congreso del centenario del nacimiento del poeta español Luis Cernuda”. Faculty of Alalsun, Ain Shams University.
  • October, 2003: “Congreso del centenario del nacimiento de Rafael Alberti”, Cairo University.
  • Dicember 2007: “Lecciones Magistrales”, Instituto Cervantes del El Cairo.
  • March, 2009: Congreso “Literatura Hispanoamericana en el espejo de la crítica árabe”, Egypt Writers Unity.
  • April, 2009: “II Congreso de Literatura, Traducción y interculturalidad”, High Institute of Language and translation, 6 of October University, Cairo, Egypt.
  • Julio, 2009: V Congreso de la AHH (Asiciacion Hispanica de Humanidades), Sevilla, Spain.

 

Courses and Workshops

  • Recent Trends in Teaching                                                

    Dec. 2010

Cairo University, Faculty and Leadership Development Center.

  • Legal & Financial Aspects in University Environment

       Dec. 2010

Cairo University, Faculty and Leadership Development Center.

  • Compete for a Research Fund

                                                Dec.2010

Cairo University, Faculty and Leadership Development Center.

  • Time and Conference Management

                                      Dec.2010

Cairo University, Faculty and Leadership Development Center.

  • Code of Ethics in University

                                                               Dec. 2010

Cairo University, Faculty and Leadership Development Center.

  • International Publishing of Research

                                   Nov. 2010

Cairo University, Faculty and Leadership Development Center.

Professional Affiliations:

  • Asociación de Hispanistas Egipcios.
  • Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades.(AHH)
  • Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica.
  • Feministas Unidas

Work Experience:

  • August 2010- March 2013: Director of the Cairo University General Theater.
  • April 2013- May 2014, Director of the National Center for Translation, Ministry of Culture, Egypt.

 

(Last updated: Sun, 2015-03-08 19:38)