Bernadette Andrea is a full professor of literary and cultural studies in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an affiliated faculty in the Center for Middle East Studies, the Comparative Literature Program, and the Department of Feminist Studies. She is the author of The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Her edited books include Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, with Patricia Akhimie (University of Nebraska Press, 2019); English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 (ITER, 2012); and Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds, with Linda McJannet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Her articles and book chapters on contemporary women writers from Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco appear in journals such as HAWWA: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World and collections such as Arab Women’s Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing.

For more information, see https://www.english.ucsb.edu/people/andrea-bernadette.