Bio
Dr. Dalia Elshayal is a professor at the English department, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in African American Theater from Cairo University. She has been the recipient of several grants and fellowships the last of which was a Fulbright post-doctoral research grant at the African-American department at Harvard University.
She also taught African American Theater courses at the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University. At Cairo University, she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on Drama, American Literature, Western Culture and Translation, while she also lectures in Italy, Japan, India and Germany. She is a member of the Collegium of African American Research (CAAR) and has published nationally and internationally in the field of Ethnic literature
She is currently the Egyptian representative of the Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association (SSASA). Dr. Elshayal has also been the head of the cultural committee at the Faculty of arts, Cairo university as well as a member of the technical committee for international collaboration, graduate studies office of Cairo university
Her Arabic translation of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird won the best translation award by the Center for Translation and Foreign Languages at Cairo university. Her article entitled "Know Thyself”: The Quest for a Japanese-American Identity in Philip Kan Gotanda’s Ballad of Yachiyo, (which was presented at the conference of the British Association of American Studies, BAAS, University of Cambridge, UK) has recently been published. Among her other publications is “The Athenian Sun in an African [American] Sky: Rita Dove’s Grecian Gift”, American Studies. Volume 131, Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2006; and “Reading Houses and Building Texts: Architectural Elements in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban, Fikr w Ibda, 2013. (presented at 1st International Symposium on Environment, Behavior, and Society, University of Sydney, Australia).