Erika Biagini
Dublin City Univrsity
Ireland

Erika Biagini is Assistant Professor in Security Studies in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. Her area of expertise lies at the intersection of Islamism, gender and politics. She lived extensively in Egypt, where she conducted research on the Muslim Sisterhood, the Muslim Brotherhood’s female members, in the aftermath of Egypt’s 2011 uprising. Her current research focuses on the areas of subjectivity, Islamist women’s activism and feminist politics, the gender politics and sexuality of Islamist movements, and the evolution of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood since the 2013 repression. She has published extensively on these subjects.