Ph.D.                King's College London, Comparative Literature, 2024

MA                     University of Oxford, Comparative Literature, 2018

B.A.                    Rutgers University-New Brunswick, English Literature & Comparative Literature (Magna Cum Laude), 2016

Faculty Member, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of English Language & Literature, 2024-present 

Senior Fellow at Fiker Institute, Dubai, UAE, 2023-present

Consultant at Emkan Education, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2022

• Theory of Parody & The Reception of the Greco-Roman Classics
• Imperial History & Postcolonial Literature 
• Al-Andalus and the Poetics of Medieval Intercultural Exchange.
• Political Poetry and the Epic Genre
• Arabic and Islamic Thought in the Global Literary Canon
• Visual Culture, Memory, and Identity in the Arab Gulf

• The Allure of the Seas in Kuwaiti Cinema & Literature - Publications ‹ Fiker Institute

•  “Parody, Imperial History, and the Graeco-Roman Classics in the Anglophone Caribbean,” (unpublished doctoral thesis, King’s College London, 2024).

• “Khaleeji Identity in Transition: Modernity & the Comedies of Survival,” Fiker Institute, Dubai, August 2024. <https://www.fikerinstitute.org/publications/khaleeji-identity-in-transition-modernity-the-comedies-of-survival>. 

• “Bye Bye London: Theater & Imperialism in the Gulf,” Fiker Institute, Dubai, March 2024. <https://www.fikerinstitute.org/publications/bye-bye-london-theatre-imperialism-in-the-gulf>.

• “World Literature: The Politics of Translation,” Fiker Institute, Dubai, November 2022. <https://www.fikerinstitute.org/publications/world-literature-the-politics-of-translation>.

Translations:

-“Abdelfattah Kilito’s “Thou Shalt Not Translate Me,” Translated” A translation of Kilito’s lecture at the Sharjah Art Foundation Symposium. ArabLit, 18 Jan 2016, <https://arablit.org/2016/01/18/abdelfattah-kilitos-thou-shalt-not-translate-me-translated/>.

- “Chapter One: Isabelle Allende” in Meredith Maran’s Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and
Why They Do What They Do (Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers, 2014).