Evelyne Accad is professor emerita of Francophone, Arabophone, African, Middle East, Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was born in Beirut in 1943 and grew up in Lebanon. After moving to the United States in the 1960s, she earned a PhD in comparative literature from Indiana University Bloomington. She has taught at Beirut University College and Northwestern University. Accad has published both fiction and non-fiction book, including her first novel L’Excisée in 1982 (translated to English in 1989), and Veil of Shame: The Role of Women in the Contemporary Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World (1978) which received the International Educator’s Award.
Her lecture was held on March 8, 2005.
