(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

Honors & Awards
Presentations & Affiliations

Honors & Awards


Graduate Teaching Assistantship at Loyola University Chicago, Spring 2025
Stanley Clayes Essay Prize at Loyola University Chicago, 2024
   awarded for “‘And metaphor is a spacious vastness’: Darwish's Exile and Thirdspaces of Coloniality" 
Graduate Research Assistantship
at Loyola University Chicago, Fall 2024
Graduate Instructor of Record at Loyola University Chicago, AY 2023 - 2024
Graduate Teaching Assistantship at Loyola University Chicago, AY 2022 - 23
The Toomey/Surtz Graduate Fellowship at Loyola University Chicago, AY 2022
Dean’s List at Portland State University, Fall 2017
President’s List at Portland State University, Spring 2017
Unsung Hero Award & Scholarship at High School of diploma, 2015



   




(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 Teaching Assistant.


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

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