Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
My work centers decolonial/postcolonial theory and literature, diaspora studies, literary theory and the politics of aesthetics. I specialize in Anglophone, Arabophone, and Francophone literatures (20th/21st C). Other research interests of mine include ecocriticism and environmental literature; colonial psychoanalysis and medicine; visual studies; and gender and sexuality studies. At UC Berkeley I am a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature, where I teach and am pursuing a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. I previously served on the editorial board of Duke University Press’s interdisciplinary journal, Qui Parle, and co-organize the Townsend Center Working Group on Psychoanalysis.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Colonialism
Modern
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Lebanon
Specialties
Francophone And Arabic Literature; Cinema Of North
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
English (advanced)
Persian (fluent)
Education
BA
| 2014
| Comparative Literature
| University of California, Los Angeles
Abstracts
The Night of the Non-Event: Apocalyptic Visions, Speculative Poetics, Irrecoverable Histories
