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2 months 1 weekI am an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Kuwait. I earned my PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. Previously, I taught at the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Texas at Austin, Kenyon College, and Middlebury College. My research interests include comparative literature, postcolonial literature, Arabic literature, Arab American literature, and trauma theory. I have published articles in journals, including Interventions, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, English Studies, Style, CEA Critic, Textual Practice, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, and E-learning and Digital Media. My manuscript, titled Haunting Trauma: Narrating the Past and Reclaiming Memory in Palestinian Anglophone Literature, is forthcoming and will be published by Brill as part of the Mobilizing Memories Series.
BA in English Language and Literature from Al-Hussein Bin Talal University
MA in English Literature from the University of Jordan
PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas
2025 to the present: Associate Professor of Comparative and Postcolonial Literature, Kuwait University
2016 - 2024: Associate Professor of Comparative and Postcolonial Literature, the University of Jordan/Aqaba.
2022- 2023: Visiting Assistant Professor of Arab American Literature and Postcolonial Literature at Kenyon College.
2022 (summer course): Arabic Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin
2014 - 2022: Arabic Instructor at Middlebury College.
2019 - 2022: TAFEL Head Section at Language Center, the University of Jordan/Aqaba.
2016 - 2022: Language instructor at Language Center, the University of Jordan/Aqaba.
2015 - 2016: Adjunct faculty of Composition at Richland College.
2015 - 2016: English Corner Tutor, Richland College.
2015 - 2016: Adjunct faculty at Eastfield College.
2014 - 2015: Adjunct faculty at Mountain View College.
2014 - 2015: Adjunct faculty at Mountain View College. (Dual credit classes for Composition and British Literature at South Grand Prairie High School)
2014 - 2015: Tutor in the Writing Center at the University of Texas at Dallas.
2014 - 2015: Part-time employee at Testing Center, UT. Dallas.
2011-2012: Teaching Assistant at the University of Jordan.
Arab American Literature, American Literature, Comparative Literature, Trauma Theory, Global Feminism
“The Burden of the Past: Memories, Resistance and Existence in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2020.1863840
- “The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: ‘A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over.’” English Studies, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2021.1997469
- “Claims of Memory: Transgenerational Traumas, Fluid Identities and Resistance in Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 56 (3): 2020.
- “Cultural Authenticity Versus Hyphenated Identities: Transnational Modes of Belonging and Citizenship in The Inheritance of Exile: Stories from South Philly.” CEA Critic 82 (1): 2020.
- “Susan Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile: The Aesthetics of Deterritorialization and the Claim of the Arab American Identity.” Style, 54 (3): 2020.
- “Locating the Subaltern: Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account and the Deconstruction of Epistemic Violence.” Journal of Middle East’s women Studies. Accepted.
- “The Empire Writes Back: The Moor's Account's Decolonial Appropriation of Cabeza de Vaca's La Relación.” Textual Practice. Published online (2023).
- “‘Life in death’: Decolonizing Trauma in Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer.” Style. (2024): forthcoming.
- “Jordanian university students' attitudes toward online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns: Obstacles and solutions.” Journal International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, vol. 20, no. 1 (2021): 142-159.
- “Trauma Theory: No ‘Separate Peace’ for Ernest Hemingway's ‘Hard-Boiled’ Characters.” International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, vol. 6, no. 7 (2017): 97-102.
- “The Role of Play-Based Learning in Enhancing Morphological Awareness Skills among UNRWA/EFL Jordanian Sixth Grade Students.” The International Journal of Humanities Education, vol. 20, no. 1 (2022): 50-62.
- “Literary Contexts for Teaching Non-Arabic Learners.” The International Journal of Humanities Education, vol. 21, no. 2: (2023): 75-82.
- “Lamenting the Loss versus the Fallacy of Extinct Literary Genres in World Literature.” Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences 48, no. 1: (2020): 528-541.
- “The emotive power of political metaphors in Rafael Behr's opinion articles in The Guardian.” Style: Journal of Linguistics, 33 :(2020), 103–125