Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Dima (Deema) Nasser is a graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She works on verbal and visual articulations of pain and production in between art and poetry from Beirut in the second half of the twentieth century. She is interested in the visual aesthetics of violence, war, and trauma as metaphors of creation as well as in the politics of exile and displacement. Dima is also a literary and academic translator working between English and Arabic.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Arab Studies
Pop Culture
Translation
Arabic
Identity/Representation
Colonialism
Gulf Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Transnationalism
Theater
Publishing
Cinema/Film
Sociolinguistics
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Lebanon
Gulf
Islamic World
Maghreb
Mashreq
Specialties
The Arabic Graphic Novel
Expressions Of Aesthetic And Political Revolutions
Modern Uses Of Calligraphy In Arab Art And Lit
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
MA
| 2016
| Department of English
| American University of Beirut
BA
| 2013
| Department of English
| American University of Beirut
Abstracts
The Visual Poetics of Pain and Deformation in Lan vis-à-vis Sittat rusūm
