Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Primary Phone: +1-6507992766
Secondary Phone: +964-7722831552
ABOUT
Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse served as the founding Chair of the English Department at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS), where she taught for four years. She received her MFA at Warren Wilson and an MEd from the University of Virginia. Translations and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, Words Without Borders, Poetry Society of America, and the anthology: SoJust. Handful of Salt, a new book of translations of Kajal Ahmad’s poetry, is due in March 2016 from The Word Works. She is currently a Research Fellow at AUIS’ Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) and a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Kurdish Studies.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Kurdish Studies
Translation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Kurdistan
Iran
Specialties
Sheikh Raza Talabani, A Classical Kurdish Poet, An
Curse Poetry And Its Lineage Through Persian And P
Kashkuls And The Nature Of Textuality In Kurdish P
Languages
Kurdish (intermediate)
Education
MFA
| 2012
| Poetry Writing
| Warren Wilson College
MA
| 2009
| English Education
| University of Virginia
BA
| 2008
| Political and Social Thought
| University of Virginia
Abstracts
Comrade to Critic: the Rift Between Kurdish Poets and the Kurdish State
