Dr. Hoda Elsadda is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University Faculty of Arts, a feminist and an activist for women’s rights. She co-founded in 1995 the Women and Memory Forum, a research organization that focuses on the production and dissemination of alternative knowledges on women and gender studies. Previously, she was Professor of the Study of the Contemporary Arab World at the University of Manchester (2005 – 2011), served as Co-Director of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) in the UK, and was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University (2014-2015). Her research interests are in the areas of gender studies, comparative literature and oral history. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008 (Edinburgh UP and Syracuse UP, 2012); and co-editor of Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives (Cairo Papers, 35:1, 2018).