Bio
Name:Mona Hussein Mones
Surname: Mones
Actual Position:Senior Professor in English Literature., English Dept., Faculty of Arts, Cairo University.
Permanent residence:Cairo, Egypt.
Email: mmones3@gmail.com
Mobile:+2010222278719
Dr. Mones' MA thesis was “The Novel as Chronicle. The Evolution of English Culture and Social Life as represented in John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga (1922, 1929, 1934), Virgina Wolf’s The Years (1937) and Angus Wilson’s No Laughing Matter (1967)” which she received from the Women’s College, Ain Shams University (Cairo) in 1978. Her PhD was about “Elizabeth Gaskell and the Nineteenth-Century English Social Novel” which she received from the dept. of English, Cairo University in 1984. This was a joint supervision between Cairo University (Egypt) and Essex University (UK).
Dr. Mones' main interests have always been the novel in general and the Arabic and English novels in particular and history in general.
She has taught a variety of subjects since she was appointed demonstrator in the English department in 1973. Among these are novel, civilization and culture, criticism comparative literature, essay/comprehension. She currently teaches in the MA and PhD programmes for graduates in English literature at the English department, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University where she also supervises MA and PhD theses in English literature.
Dr. Mones has also refereed, on regular basis shortly after she was appointed professor, Egyptian postgraduates’ work in English literature submitted to the promotions’ committee in Egypt. She also referees specialized articles in English literature for academic journals and periodicals.
Dr. Mones is fluent in German, Spanish and French besides English and Arabic. She studied ate a German school while living in Spain.
Among M. Mones’ most important [and cherished] publications are:
- The Age of Reason. A Survey of the Rise and Development of Seventeenth-Century Thought. Cairo: GEBO, 1989.
- The Short Story by Ian Reid. Tr. into Arabic. GEBO, 1990.
- Hussein Mones at Home.Cairo: Dar al Maaref, 1997. [biography in Arabic]
- “Egypt in the Eyes of the West and its Literature” Cairo: Dar al Maaref, 1998 [in Arabic]
Last supervised M.A. theses:
- May Hazem al-Guebali: “Southern Ontario Gotheic in Selected Novels by Margret Atwood.” M.A. Cairo University, 8/4/2017.
- Alaa Mohamed Mansour: “Magic Relaism in Selected Novels by Zakes Mda, Alejo Carpentier and Khairy Shalabi”. M.A., Cairo University, 3/5/2017.
- Shereen Mohamed Safwat: “Women Writing Autobiographies. A Compartive Study Between Samia Sarageddin’s The Cairo House (2000) and Jung Chang’s Wild Swans (1990). M.A., Cairo University, 30/7/2017.
- Safaa Mohamed Suleman: “Utopia in Selected Novels by Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut and Nihad Sherif: A Comparative Study”. M.A. Cairo Univ., 14/9/2017.
- Rawa Nizar al Khatib: “A New Historicist Reading of Selected Texts Written on the Syrian Revolution in 2011”. M.A. Cairo Univ. 20/12/18
- Yumna Hisham Mohamed: “Sufi Elements in Selected Novels by Elif Shafak, Laila Abouleila and Mohga Kahf: A Comparative Study”, Still unpublished M.A. thesis, Cairo Univ., registered in 2016.
Examined M.A. Theses:
- Mona Saeed Ibrahim: “The Ecofeminism of Val Plumwood as Manifested in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres, Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. M.A. Faculty of Women, Ain Shams Univ, 5/9/2016
- Hend Khaled el-Hady: “The Journey and Bakhtin’s Chronotope in L'Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and Selected Arabic Stories for Children”. M.A. Cairo University, 12/5/2019.