Susana Galán

Susana Galán (b. 1978) is a PhD Candidate in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University (NJ, USA). Her dissertation focuses on autonomous practices of self-defense and community intervention against public sexual violence in Cairo, Egypt, and their impact on gendered urban dynamics after the January 25 Revolution. More broadly, she is interested in exploring the potentials, limitations, and paradoxes of online spaces and privatized urban developments for the experimentation with and enactment of alternative, dissonant and subversive gendered performances. She has published a chapter on activism against public sexual violence in Cairo in the book Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings, edited by Deen Sharp and Claire Panetta (2016, Terreform). Her work has also been featured in the Journal of International Women’s Studies, the Observatori del Conflicte Social, Cairobserver, and Jadaliyya. In the course of her doctoral studies, she has worked as a graduate research assistant for Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, where she co-edited a special issue on “Gendered Bodies in the Protest Sphere.” She has a chapter in the forthcoming book Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions, edited by Frances Hasso and Zakia Salime (Duke University Press).