Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Dr. Katty Alhayek is an Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. She was a MESA Global Academy Fellow between 2021 and 2022. Alhayek’s research centers around themes of marginality, media, audiences, gender, intersectionality, and displacement in a transnational context. Alhayek completed her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States of America with a graduate certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies. Her publications include articles in the International Journal of Communication; Feminist Media Studies; Gender, Technology and Development; Syria Studies; and Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies.
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Technology
Media
Gender/Women's Studies
Pop Culture
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Arab Studies
Specialties
Audience Research, Fandom, Feminist Media Studies, Migration, Technology And Social Change, Food Communication, And Critical Cultural Studies.
Languages
Arabic (native)
Education
PhD
| 2021
| Communication
| University of Massachusetts Amherst
Abstracts
Media Realism in Time of War: Identification, Interactivity, and Symbolism in Syrian television drama.
Neo-authoritarian feminism: Theorizing The Syrian Government’s co-optation of feminist Discourse
Syrian online spaces of possibilities: case studies of successful interventions
A Reflection on Displacement and Related Methodological and Ethical Considerations
