Dr May Witwit
Dr May Witwit is a literature studies expert specialising in Jane Austen, Chaucer and other aspects of English Literature.
Her research interests includes Victorian literature, Victorians' translation of ancient Arabian poetry, Victorian anti-suffrage and the policy of British Empire.
She is particularly interested in representation of Arab women in the British press 1850-1939.
After leaving Iraq, she completed her PhD on Anti-Feminist Attitudes in Selected Victorian Professional Women’, in 2012 at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. May then spent 3 years on a Post-Doctorate Research Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
She is the co- author, with Bee Rowlatt, of Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship (2010, Penguin) which recounts her escape from Iraq.
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