(yes-mean ay-yoob)

I’m a doctoral student in English Literature. I work with postcolonial, decolonial, and diasporic literatures.

I am also a university Instructor and Research Assistant.


When I’m not reading, I’m probably cooking, needle-arting, or making coffee.





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Education History

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Education History


Doctor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago

   English Literature, ongoing

My doctoral study is centered on Modern & Contemporary Literature. I am frequently concerned with the assertion of decolonial epistemologies; the role of literature & language in the construction of nationalisms and other ideologies of power; and insurgent historiographies from which we can conceptualize new worlds and futures.
My prospective research and dissertation looks to diasporic Palestinian literature for a phenomenological depiction of space, and subsequently to interrogate conceptions of mobility and movement, nationalism, geography, and place.

Master of Arts, Loyola University Chicago 

   English Literature, 2023

   GPA - 3.89

Coursework provided introduction to research methods in many subfields of Literature, including 19th Century African-American Literature and Black Queer Feminisms; Postcolonial Literature; Decolonial Studies; Shakespeare Studies; and Literary Criticism. 

Bachelor of Arts, Portland State University

    English Literature & Liberal Studies, 2019 

    GPA - 3.6    

Coursework in the English Literature major covered a wide-array of the field, including British Romanticism; contemporary African-American literature; the Southern Gothic; and Modernism. 
Credits in the Liberal Studies major consisted of coursework in Feminist Philosophy; Political Theory and Biopolitics; Indigenous Studies; and Black Studies.




(yes-mean ay-yoob)

I’m a doctoral student in English Literature. I work with postcolonial, decolonial, and diasporic literatures. 

I am also a university Instructor and Research Assistant.


When I’m not reading, I’m probably cooking, needle-arting, or making coffee.

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