Research Interests
- Cultural Studies
- Ethnography
- Youth Activism
- Diaspora
- Literature
Involvement at the GCSC
Graduate Student Committee (GSC) (10/2024-10/2025)
- Member of the Graduate Student Committee at the GCSC
- Responsibilities: Liaising with the graduate student body, ensuring doctoral students are involved in the political, institutional, and educational organization of the GCSC
Equal Opportunities Committee (EOC) (10/2023-10/2024)
- Member of the Equal Opportunities Committee at the GCSC
- Achievements:
- Updated the EOC page on the GCSC website in English and German
- Introduced office hours for doctoral students
- Created new posters and bookmarks to highlight EOC's presence
- Initiated workshop organization with ETRG Migration and Decoloniality
- Active participation in the selection committee for 2024/2025 academic year
Research Areas
- Active member in:
- Research Area 6 (Cultural Identities)
- Research Area 8 (Cultures of Knowledge, Research, and Education)
- Co-organised conference 'Disrupted Identities'
- Organized round table during 'Knowledge - Between Discursive Construction and Cultural Contextualization' conference
Editorial
- Forthcoming, Autumn 2025: Guest editor for Issue #19 published in the indexed, open access journal “On-Culture”.
- Issue title: Disruption
- The issue includes 6 double-blind peer-reviewed articles, 3 essays by expert scholars, and 3 perspectives by scholars who engage with the concept of disruption through semi-academic and artistic media
https://www.on-culture.org/submission/call-for-abstracts-archive/cfa19/
Workshops
- 08/02/2024: "Redefining Knowledge: an Introduction to Postcolonial and Decolonial Thinking"
- Funded by: The International Ph.D. Program (IPP)
- At: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
- 06/12/2022: "Muslima Theology: A Critical Analysis of Feminism in the Arab World"
- Funded by: The International Ph.D. Program (IPP)
- At: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
- 20/05/2022: "Coming to Terms with Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Writing Ethnography"
- Funded by: Teaching Centre: STIBET
- At: Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Conference Organization
24/05/2024: Round Table: "Decoloniality of Knowledge and Methods"
- Part of the conference 'Knowledge - Between Discursive Construction and Cultural Contextualization'
- Organized by GCSC and DiscourseNet
- Co-organized and chaired the round table
4-16/05/2024: "Disrupted Identities in the light of 'Post-Everything'"
- Co-organized by five members of Research Area 6: Cultural Identities. GGK/GCSC
- Featured:
- 15 individual presentations
- 2 keynote lectures by Dr. Danielle Drozdzewski and Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé
- Workshop by Giovana De Souza Possignolo
- Chaired Dr. Danielle Drozdzewski's keynote and one panel
Blind Reviewing
- 12/06/2024: International Journal of Film and Media Arts
- Special issue: "Street Art: A Global language within communities"
- For Film and Media Arts Department of Lusófona University and FilmEU
- Manuscript: "Generative AI's Family Portraits of Whiteness: A Semiotic Postdigital Case Study"
- Manuscript: "From Lockdown to Laugh-town: Interpreting Saudi's Humorous Memes during COVID-19 Crisis"
Teaching Experience
2023/2024: Co-teacher
- Seminar: Gender and Genre: Arab-Anglophone Literature in a Global Context
- Winter Semester 23/24, English Studies Institute—Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
2022/2023: Co-teacher
- Seminar: Islam, the West, and the New Anglophone Literatures: An Introduction
- Winter Semester 22/23, English Studies Institute—Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
2022: Co-teacher
- Seminar: Gender and Genre: Arab Anglophone Literature in a Global Context
- Summer Semester 22, English Studies Institute—Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany