Staff profile
Overview
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Affiliation |
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Assistant Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
Esteem Indicators
- 2022: Pen Hessell-Tiltman Prize (runner up) :
Publications
Authored book
- Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Cairo's Roaring 20sCormack, R. (2021). Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Cairo’s Roaring 20s. New York: W.W. Norton; London: Saqi Books.
- Midnight in Cairo the divas of Egypt's roaring '20sCormack, R. (2021). Midnight in Cairo the divas of Egypt’s roaring ’20s. W. W. Norton & Company.
Book review
- Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today 35 ed. by Ernest N. Emenyonou (review)Cormack, R. (2020). Focus on Egypt: African Literature Today 35 ed. by Ernest N. Emenyonou (review). Africa, 90(5), 984-985. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000753
Chapter in book
- Cultures of Diversity: George Abyad's 1912 Oedipus RexCormack, R. (2020). Cultures of Diversity: George Abyad’s 1912 Oedipus Rex. In A. Gorman & S. Irving (Eds.), Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Arts, Thought and Literature. I. B. Tauris.
- The Mirror of the West: Arab American Literature in Early Twentieth-Century New York CityCormack, R. (2020). The Mirror of the West: Arab American Literature in Early Twentieth-Century New York City. In R. Wilson (Ed.), New York: A Literary History (pp. 46-60). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108557139.004
- Lords or Idols?: Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-century EgyptRaphael Cormack. (2019). Lords or Idols?: Translating the Greek Gods into Arabic in Nineteenth-century Egypt. In M. Booth (Ed.), Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (pp. 211-235). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474439015-011
Edited book
- The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle EastAuji, H., Cormack, R., & Mahmoud, A. (Eds.). (2023). The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Journal Article
- Full of noises: when "World Shakespeare" met the "Arab Spring"Litvin, M., Walkling, S., & Cormack, R. (2016). Full of noises: when "World Shakespeare" met the "Arab Spring". Shakespeare, 12(3), 300-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2015.1066842
Other (Print)
- Pre-1952 Egyptian Drama, Popular Theater, and Cultures of PerformanceRaphael Cormack. (2023). Pre-1952 Egyptian Drama, Popular Theater, and Cultures of Performance. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1304