09.11.2026 A warm welcome to Dr. Cyrine Kortas!

Dr. Cyrine Kortas is the “Feminist Futures” visiting professor at the Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Futurology for the winter semester 2026/27.

The Center for Gender Studies and Feminist Futurology welcomes Dr. Cyrine Kortas as “Feminist Futures” visiting professor for the winter semester 2026/27.

Cyrine Kortas holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Sousse. She teaches English literature at the University of Gabes, Tunisia, where she heads the English Department. She was previously a long-term fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) at Tunis University.

Her research interests include feminist and masculinity studies, gender and Sufism, and media studies and pedagogy, with a focus on comparative readings of English, American and Maghrebi literatures.

In Marburg, she is teaching the following courses in English:

• Gender and Literature: Past and Present
• Questions of Women and Islam in 20th Century North African Fiction
• Women’s Social Realities and Gender Studies in Third World Cinema

More information on the visiting professorship and her courses can be found here.