Education

• Cornell University A.B. 1970
• University of California--Los Angeles M.A. 1973
• U.C.L.A. Ph.D. 1977

Courses

• Sex, Scandal @amp; Privacy (B594)
• Seminar in Disability Between Law @amp; Culture (L696)

Background

• Chercheur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1974-1976
• Faculty, Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 1984
• Member of an Equipe de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Paris-Sorbonne, 1985-1990
• Invited Senior Fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1993-1994
• Special Distinguished Lecturer, Moroccan-American Fulbright Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange, 1998

Biography

• Chercheur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1974-1976
• Faculty, Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 1984
• Member of an Equipe de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Paris-Sorbonne, 1985-1990
• Invited Senior Fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1993-1994
• Special Distinguished Lecturer, Moroccan-American Fulbright Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange, 1998

Professor Fedwa Malti-Douglas's intellectual work has spanned centuries and continents as well as verbal and visual materials. Her interest in legal issues began with her earliest publications and she has participated in several invited legal conferences, including at Yale University Law School. At Indiana Law and at IU, she teaches gender studies and cultural legal studies.

She has delivered many annual, named, and endowed lectures and has served on editorial and other boards as well as visiting committees. Malti-Douglas has also been the recipient of numerous grants ? including awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council.A consultant on projects from medieval history to contemporary media, she is currently an elected officer of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies.

The author of nine books and co-author of three more, she has also published over 90 articles. The University of California Press designated her Men, Women, and God(s) a Centennial Book, and The Starr Report Disrobed (2000) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The co-authored Arab Comic Strips (1994) was chosen as a Reader's Catalog Selection, by The New York Review of Books' Reader's Catalog. She penned a novel, Hisland, which was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Malti-Douglas's journalistic writing has been published in The New York Times, and The International Herald Tribune, among others. In addition to being interviewed on numerous radio shows and in newspapers in the United States and abroad, she has been a contributor to NPR's "What's the Word?" and has also made one-on-one appearances with Lester Holt on MSNBC and Greta Van Susteren on FOX.

A resident fellow at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center (1992), Malti-Douglas was chosen by the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences as the Annual Distinguished James H. Becker Alumna Lecturer in 1992-1993. After winning the 1997 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Letters, she received the campus-wide 1998 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Office for Women's Affairs as well as the campus-wide 2000 Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture Award at Bloomington. The IU Student Association named her an Outstanding Teacher in 1993-1994.

Interests

• Medicine and the body
• Cultural legal studies
• Privacy
• Disability