(yes-mean ay-yoob)
I’m a doctoral student in English Literature. My work is grounded in Post-1945 Global and Comparative Literature.
I am also a university Instructor and Teaching Assistant.
When I’m not reading I’m probably cooking, needle-artaing, or making coffee.
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Education History
Honors & Awards
Presentations & Affiliations
Presentations
“'A person in the form of a specter searching': Darwish and the Aesthetics of Palestinian Spatiality”, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. November 2025.
“The City Takes a Breath’: Defamiliarizing the City’s Body & Other Parties in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Especially Heinous’”, Annual Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference. April 2025.
“No Space for Palestinians: Iterations of Colonial Spatial Oppression Within & Beyond Occupational Borders”, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. November 2024.
“‘And metaphor is a spacious vastness’: Darwish’s Exile and Thirdspaces of Coloniality”, Stanley Clayes Memorial Essay Competition Symposium. October 2024.
“No Space for Palestinians: Iterations of Colonial Spatial Oppression Within & Beyond Occupational Borders”, Loyola Chicago English Graduate Student Symposium. April 2024.
Affiliations
American Studies Association
Arab American Studies Association
Association for Middle East Women’s Studies
The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Arab American Studies Association
Association for Middle East Women’s Studies
The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
(yes-mean ay-yoob)I’m a doctoral student in English Literature. My work is grounded in Post-1945 Global and Comparative Literature.
I am also a university Instructor and Teaching Assistant.
When I’m not reading I’m probably cooking, needle-arting, or making coffee.