Directory

Dissertation: "COMMUNITY OF PATHOS: RESISTANCE THROUGH REPRESENTATION IN MIGRANT ART"

Ekim has worked as a subtitle translator, lecturer, and Turkish instructor for foreigners. Their research interests are queer thought in the translation studies field and the translation of Ottoman literature. Ekim is a certified Turkish Sign Language Interpreter, who also speaks Turkish, English, and German.

Mohammad Alanazi is a literary translator and lecturer at the University of Hafr Albatin. His current research interests include literary translation, modernist and contemporary Arabic literature, poetry and comparative poetics, postcolonialism, world literature, and Middle Eastern studies.

Sarah Aldawood received her MA in the Theory and Practice of Translation from SOAS, University of London, and her BA in English Translation from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Her current research interests include the sociology of translation, intersemiotic translation, translation technologies and modern Arabic literature.

Dissertation: "Moralizing the Rape of Philomela in Late Medieval Commentary" (2020)

Adile Aslan is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, and has been working as a lecturer at Georgetown University-Qatar since 2017. Her research interests are comparative modernisms, the Ottoman literatures, the Habsburg literatures, Middle Eastern Studies, psychoanalysis, world literature and Global South.

A Bosnian-born, bilingual writer, Selma earned dual BA degrees in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature from the University of Sarajevo, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. Her first book of poetry was published in both Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 2022 and awarded a regional prize for best poetry collection the following fall.

Emily is a PhD student in Comparative Literature. Originally from Martin, Tennessee, she received her BA in Philosophy from Grinnell College in 2021 and has worked as a primary and secondary school teacher in Madrid, Spain, and Bloomington, Indiana. Emily’s research interests include South African and Lusophone African literature, feminist theory, and critical race studies, and she hopes to conduct research across English, Spanish, Portuguese and Zulu literary texts.

María Soledad Barbón's research and teaching interests include the literature and cultural history of colonial Latin America, transatlantic studies, Hemispheric Studies, anthropophagy and colonial festivals.

Jessica Barr's research interests include include medieval women's writing, visionary and dream vision literature, hagiography, and the history of reading.