(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

Presentations


Annual Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference, April 2025 – Los Angeles, CA
‘The City Takes a Breath’: Defamiliarizing the City’s Body & Other Parties in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Especially Heinous’”

Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, November 2024 – Baltimore, MD
“No Space for Palestinians: Iterations of Colonial Spatial Oppression Within & Beyond Occupational Borders”

Stanley Clayes Memorial Essay Competition Symposium, October 2024 – Loyola University Chicago
“‘And metaphor is a spacious vastness’: Darwish’s Exile and Thirdspaces of Coloniality”

English Graduate Student Association Symposium, April 2024 – Loyola University Chicago
“No Space for Palestinians: Iterations of Colonial Spatial Oppression Within & Beyond Occupational Borders”


Scholarly 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




   




(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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