Noran Amin, PhD

Dr. Noran Amin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Cairo University. She teaches American Studies for senior and junior students, as well as Comparative Literature, Literary Theory and Practice, and Drama courses.

She earned her PhD in 2020 from the Department of English at Idaho State University, where her dissertation, "The Interrogative Mode: A Practical Theory for Comics Criticism", developed a framework for analyzing comics and graphic narratives. Prior to that, she completed her MA in English at the University of Wyoming in 2015. Her thesis, "Interweaving the Threads of Ecofeminism and Reviving It through a Comparison of Two Cross-Cultural Novels", examines ecofeminist debates through a comparative study of an Arabic novel and a Native American one.

Dr. Amin’s key publications include:

"The Superpowers of the Interrogative Mode" (published in Teaching with Comics, edited by Lars Wallner and Robert Aman)

"The Oriental Superheroes: Political Questions in G. Willow Wilson's Cairo: A Graphic Novel and Ms. Marvel" (published in the International Journal of Comic Art)

"An Interview with G. Willow Wilson" (published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts)

"Qahera: The Vanquisher of Norms" (forthcoming in Comics and Norm-Critical Pedagogy: Intersectional Perspectives on Graphic Storytelling, edited by Lars Wallner and Robert Aman)

Dr. Amin has recently been awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship. From 2025 to 2027, she will be based in Germany for 28 months, working on her project, The (Re/De)Construction of the Egyptian Self in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.