Instructor

Research Area

Medieval Literature, Mythology, Post-Colonial theory, Feminism

Contact Information

Email: domran@unm.edu
Office Location: Humanities 253

Biography

Doaa Omran did her Masters and PhD at the University of New Mexico (2019). She wrote her ground-breaking dissertation titled Female Hero Mega-Archetypes in the Medieval European Romance on Qur'anic and Biblical female characters as mega-archetypes in Medieval literature. She received her B.A. in English language and literature at Alexandria University, Egypt. Her awards include: a Fulbright Scholarship (2007), the Women of Color award at UNM (2012), Dean of Graduate Studies Dissertation Award (2016) and the First place in the Larry Morris Memorial Scholarship (2018). Her essay "Anachronism and Anatopism in the French Vulgate Cycle and the Forging of English Identity through Othering Muslims/Saracens" is included in Albrecht Classen's edited volume Travel, Time, and Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: Explorations of World Perceptions and Processes of Identity Formation (2018). Currently, she is working on a co-edited volume on Muslim women writers.