Bio
Heba El-Abbadi graduated from the English Department, Cairo University in 1990 and received her M.A from The American University in Cairo in 1996, and Ph.D from Cairo University in 2001.
The title of her M.A Thesis is "The Scientist as Protagonist in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Bertold Brecht's Galileo."
The title of her Ph.D is "The Cultural Matrix of Modern Treatments of Shakepearean Themes."
She is interested in contemporary, modern and classical drama theories, in Shakespearean studies, in modern and contemporary theatre trends, and cultural studies.
She participated in many symposia and published papers on gender studies, ecocriticism, metatheatre, intertextuality, the marginalized, theatre of the oppressed, disability studies, and interdisciplinary papers between drama and sociology and drama and legal theories.
She has been teaching the following courses since 2001: British and American Drama, Ethnic Literature of the US, Critical Reading & Writing, Research Skills, and Cultural Studies.
She is also a member of the English Department International Symposium on Comparative Literature organizing committee since 2006.
She has been Acting Chair of the English Department, Cairo University from 1 February, 2022 to 29 July, 2024.