Selected Presentations & Appearances
"The Psychic Life of Evidence: Palestine and the Global Mobilization of Rape"
- Women’s and Gender Studies Forum panel on “Gender and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle."
· January 12, 2025
International Meeting or Conference
Modern Language Association (MLA),
New Orleans, LA
“‘An affirmation and a denial’: Reading Palestinian Women’s Writing after Said”
- Arabic Literature Forum panel on “The Question of Palestine Now”
· January 10, 2025
International Meeting or Conference
Modern Language Association (MLA),
New Orleans, LA
“Unraveling Language: The Politics of Refusal in Witnessing Genocide” (chair and presenter)
- “Decolonizing Politics and Poetics"
· November 15, 2024
International Meeting or Conference
Middle East Studies Association (MESA),
“The Other of Sex and of Violence: Sexual Violence as Perspective"
- Duke Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Graduate Scholars Colloquium
· October 21, 2024
Other
"Structure Your Chapter, Structure Your Life: Writing Practices for Your Dissertation" (organizer)
- ACLA Graduate Student Committee Pre-Conference Workshop
· March 14, 2024
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
American Comparative Literature Association,
Montréal, Canada
Guest lecturer, "Frantz Fanon and Combat Breathing"
- Geopolitics and Culture FOCUS Interdisciplinary Cluster
· November 10, 2022
Invited Talk
Duke University,
“Listening to Silence: Resurrecting Woman’s Sound in Assia Djebar’s Fiction”
- Roundtable on "Saying and Unsaying: Ekphrasis and Apophasis as Feminist Rhetorical Strategies" organized by Diana Shaffer
· March 10, 2022
- March 13, 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA),
Baltimore, MD
“‘Devoire de mémoire’: Transformative Self-Practice in the Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel”
- Seminar on “Care for Others, Care for Ourselves: The Power and Limits of Literature and Art” organized by Kelly Minerva and Lisa Propst
· March 10, 2022
- March 13, 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA),
Baltimore, MD
“October 17, 1961: Cross-Cultural Witness and Testimony in William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face”
· January 27, 2022
- January 30, 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Southern Humanities Council Conference,
Memphis, TN
*Awarded the 2022 Bennie D. Ussery Memorial Graduate Student Award for the best proposed paper by a graduate student who attends the Southern Humanities Council Conference.
“The Cyclical Motion of Discard in Schizophrene and Ban en Banlieue"
- Special session panel on “Therapeutic Culture: Affordances And Limitations” organized by Valerio Amoretti and Anna Mukamal
· January 6, 2022
- January 9, 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Modern Language Association (MLA),
Washington, DC
“Contradictions of the Globalized Nation: Transnational Subjecthood of Flexible and Exorbitant Citizens in Arundhati Roy’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction”
- Panel on “Ecological and Postcolonial Belonging in British Literature of the Diaspora, 1940-2020” organized by Molly Volanth Hall
· April 8, 2021
- April 11, 2021
International Meeting or Conference
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
Virtual conference
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Grant Review Panelist
· 2018
- 2019
Community Development
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
, Minneapolis, MN
Service to the Profession
Production Assistant
- Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 56, no. 2
·
August 2023
Editorial Activities
Advisory Board Member
·
2023
- 2024
Committee Service
North Carolina Consortium for Middle East Studies,
Chair
- Graduate Student Committee
·
2023
- 2024
Committee Service
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
Conference Assistant
- Face to Face: Forms of the Humanities, 2022 Annual Meeting
·
May 2022
Event/Organization Administration
Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centers (CHCI) ,
Duke University
Production Assistant
- Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 55, no. 1, The Global Reach of Black Lives Matter
·
May 2022
Editorial Activities
Service to Duke
Co-convenor
. Graduate Scholars Colloquium
·
2024
- 2026
Event/Organization Administration
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University,
Graduate Student Liaison
(Department)
·
2023
- 2025
Committee Service
Program in Literature,
Co-convenor
. Middle East Studies Graduate Student Seminar
·
2021
- 2025
Event/Organization Administration
Duke University,