Shurouq Ibrahim is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Comparative Studies; she is also pursuing a graduate minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Shurouq is currently a Graduate Teaching Associate in the Department of Near Eastern South Asian Languages and Cultures and the Graduate Research Associate for the Center for the Study of Religion at OSU. Her previous research examined individual, vicarious, and cultural trauma in 21st century world literature. Her current research lies at the intersections of trauma, gender, and the spiritual-supernatural in Arabic and Anglophone Arab literature, film, and oral histories.