Maha Marouan
Maha
Marouan
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Pennsylvania State University
BIO
Maha is an African feminist scholar, writer, and documentarian who grew up in Morocco, and spent most of her adult life in Europe and the United States of America. She is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African Studies. Her work focuses on the intersection of race, gender, and religion in the construction of female subjectivities. Her academic and creative works appeared in The Boston Review, Transition Magazine of Africa, African Diaspora, and Journal of Islamic Africa. Her research and teaching interests include religions and literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora, comparative literature, transnational feminisms, and women and immigration
At THE NEW INSTITUTE, Maha is involved in the program Black Feminism and the Polycrisis. She will be joining us in May 2024.
PUBLICATIONS
African Women, Gender, and Migration, in Africa Is a Country, edited series 2022-2023
Echoes From the World Cup: Morocco and the Politics of Belonging, in Cease Fire Magazine, 2023
At the Border, on the Margins, in Africa Is a Country, 2022
Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction, 2013