Kholoud Ezzat is currently associate professor of English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. Dr. Ezzat specializes in English drama and had a long career teaching literature and translation at university level. Her major areas of interest, besides drama, are cultural studies and translation. She had published papers on English drama, Arabic drama, multiculturalism, disability studies and translation studies. Her recent work is on performance studies and film studies.