Dr. Alia Soliman is a researcher, academic, and writer in the field of art, heritage, and cultural studies. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the American University in Cairo and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the Centre of Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry at University College London, UK. Her research interests and teaching methods are interdisciplinary. She is a creative-critical writer who was nominated for the Pushcart award. She has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on contemporary Arab visual art, digital humanities, ekphrastic writing, reading and alterity, digitization and cultural heritage, the legacy of colonialism in museum practices, and the intersection of memory and image. 

She is a  member of the UK Art History Association’s Doctoral and Early Career Research Committee. She’s an academic trainer; in addition to her teaching practice, she runs workshops for undergraduate and graduate students which include: Introduction to Visual Literacy, The Craft of Creative Visual Writing, and Narrative Writing: How to Craft a Story. She is a Lecturer of Cultural and Visual Studies.

Her monograph The Doppelgänger in Our Time: Visions of Alterity in Literature, Visual Culture, and New Media is forthcoming in 2023 from Peter Lang Publishers UK.

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