Ellen McLarney
Department of Religious Studies
Office Phone: (650) 723-2895
ellenmc@stanford.edu

Fields: Islamic studies, Arabic language and culture

Ellen McLarney is an Assistant Professor of the Practice at Duke University's Asian and African Languages and Literature Department and received her doctorate from the Comparative Literature and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures departments at Columbia University. After obtaining her BA in French from Brown University, Ellen worked with the Peace Corps in Morocco, teaching at Chouaib Doukkali University. During graduate school, Ellen was awarded fellowships by Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS), Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Egypt, and Fulbright. She has published her work in the Islamic Quarterly, Journal of North African Studies, and Journal of Arabic Literature. In addition to coordinating the Arabic language program at Duke, Ellen is involved in a project with the Kenan Institute for Ethics to build bridges between the university and community. Through the Research Service Learning program, she teaches a course entitled "Local Islams" on Muslim communities in North Carolina. With this work, she has also become an affiliate of Harvard University's Pluralism Project. Ellen's current research is on Islamist women's writings and particularly, the seeming contradiction of finding liberation through submission to Islam

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