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She has previously held the position of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts at Cairo University. She is a former member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES), the Advisory Committee for the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures, a former member of the National Council for Human Rights in Egypt, a former board member of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights and a former member of the Core Team of the Arab Human Development Report. In 1992, she co-founded and co-edited Hagar, an interdisciplinary journal in women's studies published in Arabic. She has written articles and edited books dealing with discourses on gender in modern Arab history, particularly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her research focuses on gender and culture in the Middle East, Arab women's writing, oral histories, women’s creative writing, comparative literature, and Arabic literature and popular culture.
Education
B.A. English, Cairo University
M.A. English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo
Ph.D. English Literature, Cairo University
Women and Memory Forum
Elsadda co-founded the Women and Memory Forum (WMF) in 1996. WMF consists of a group of women scholars, researchers, and activists who strive to produce and disseminate alternative cultural knowledge of women in Arab cultures throughout history and in contemporary society. The group advocates for the promotion of gender as an analytical framework to help combat negative stereotypes of Arab women in the cultural sphere. According to their website, “The long-term objective of WMF's specialized research is to produce and make available alternative cultural information about Arab women that can be used for raising awareness and empowering women.”
Sadda, Hoda (2010). 'Intaj al-Ma'rifa 'an al-'Alam al-'Arabi [Mapping the Production of Knowledge on the Arab World. Proceedings of a conference held in Cairo in July 2007] (in Arabic). Cairo: The Supreme Council of Culture.
Articles
Sada, Huda (1999). "al-Mar'a wa al-Thakira: Hoda Elsadda Muqabala" [Women and memory (an interview with Hoda Elsadda)]. Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (19): 210–230. doi:10.2307/521935. JSTOR521935.
Elsadda, Hoda (2006). "Gendered citizenship: discourses on domesticity in the second half of the nineteenth century". Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World. 4 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1163/156920806777504562.
Elsadda, Hoda (2008), "Egypt", in Ashour, Radwa; Ghazoul, Ferial J.; Reda-Mekdashi, Hasna (eds.), Arab women writers a critical reference guide, 1873-1999, Mandy McClure (translator), Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, pp. 98–161, ISBN9789774161469.
Elsadda, Hoda; Moghissi, Haideh; Elsadda; Valassopoulos, Anastasia (August 2010). "Dialogue section: Arab feminist research and activism: bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical". Feminist Theory. 11 (2): 121–127. doi:10.1177/1464700110366803. S2CID144009127.
Elsadda, Hoda (June 2011). "A 'phantom freedom in a phantom modernity'? Protestant missionaries, domestic ideology and narratives of modernity in an Arab context". Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice. 15 (2): 209–228. doi:10.1080/13642529.2011.564821. S2CID144017778.
