Shurouq Ibrahim

Shurouq Ibrahim

Shurouq Ibrahim

Ph.D Candidate, University Fellow
she/her/hers

ibrahim.278@osu.edu

Hagerty Hall, 476

Areas of Expertise

  • Modern Arabic and Anglo Arab Literature
  • Critical Trauma Theory
  • Gender and Feminist Theory
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Critical Cultural Theory
  • Gothic Literature

Education

  • Graduate Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - The Ohio State University
  • B.A. in English Language and Literature/Minor in Translation - Birzeit University, Palestine

Biography and Research Interests

Shurouq Ibrahim is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Comparative Studies and has completed a graduate minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). Shurouq’s research interrogates individual, vicarious, and cultural trauma in modern and contemporary fiction. Her current project is located at the nexus of cultural trauma, gendered subjectivity, and the gothic in modern Arabic and Anglo Arab literature. She draws on critical trauma theory and feminist frameworks to analyze narratives written against the backdrop of violent collective experiences like colonialism, war, and exile. Shurouq is particularly interested in gothic tropes such as the qarina/spirit-double, the monstrous feminine, haunting, and embodied abjection.

 

Forthcoming Publications

  • Ibrahim, S. "Circular Hybridity: Reconciling Identity and Place in Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home," Cultural Practices of Place (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).

Research

  • Research Associate, Center for the Study of Religion (2023-2025)

Teaching Record

  • ARABIC 3702 | Place, Space, and Migration in Modern Arabic Literature and Film
  • ARABIC/WGSS 2702 | Gender & Citizenship in Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
  • COMPSTD 2301 | Introduction to World Literature
  • RELSTDS 2370 | Introduction to Comparative Religion  [Recitation Instructor]

Select Campus Awards 

  • University Fellowship, Comparative Studies (2025-2026)
  • The Richard Bjornson Award for Best Essay by a Graduate Student in Comparative Studies (2023)
  • University Fellowship, Comparative Studies (2021-2022)