Maha Marouan
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African American Studies and African Studies
Professional Bio
Maha Marouan’s scholarship engages the intersections of race, gender and religion in Africa and the African Diaspora
Specializations / Research Interest(s)
- Transnational feminisms, African feminisms
- African women, gender and migration
- African and African diaspora religions
- Comparative literature, postcolonial literature (in French and English)
- Critical race theory, comparative racialization, race and belonging in Africa and the African Diaspora
Courses
- UNDERGRADUATE: Women of the African Diaspora (WMNST 102), Global Feminisms (WMNST 200), Sexism and Racism (WMNST 103), African Diaspora Women Spirituality (AFAM 410)
- GRADUATE: Transnational Feminisms (WMNST 502), African Feminisms (WMNST 550), Gender and Sexualities in the African Diaspora (AFAM 503)
Titles and Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Women Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Associate Professor of African American Studies
- Affiliate faculty, African Studies
- Co-Director, African Feminist Initiative (afi.la.psu.edu)
Publications
Fiction
- "Shame," Boston Review: A Political and Literary Forum, MIT Press, September 2019 (Nominated for the 2020 PEN America Award) http://bostonreview.net/arts-society/maha-marouan-shame
Books
- Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction, Ohio State University Press 2013
Documentaries
- Voices of Muslim Women From the U.S. South, Women Make Movies, New York, 2015 (link to trailer: http://vimeo.com/81948323)
Recent Journal and Magazine Articles
- “Contemporary Notions of Race in Morocco: Blackness, Migration and the Legacy of Slavery,” in Jadaliyya (https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45492), November 15, 2023)
- “The Africanness of North Africa,” African Is a Country, April 25, 2023. https://www.africasacountry.com/2023/04/the-africanness-of-north-africa
- “Echoes From the World Cup: Morocco and the Politics of Belonging,” January 6, 2023, Cease Fire Magazine, Jan 6, 2023 (https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/echoes-world-cup-morocco-politics-belonging)
- Edited Series
Maha Marouan, ed. African Women, Gender and Migration, Africa is a Country, 2022-2023 (https://africasacountry.com/series/african-women-gender-and-migration) - “At the border, on the margins,” Africa Is a Country, October 10, 2022 (https://africasacountry.com/2022/10/at-the-border-on-the-margins)
- “Santeria in Cuba: Contested Issues at a Time of Transition,” Transition: Magazine of Africa and the African Diaspora, Vol. 125, January 2018, pp. 57-70
- “Incomplete Forgetting: Race and Slavery in Morocco”, Journal of Islamic Africa. Vol.7, Issue 2, Fall 2016, pp. 267 – 271 (https://brill.com/abstract/journals/iafr/7/2/article-p267_6.xml)
