Shurouq Ibrahim

Shurouq Ibrahim

Shurouq Ibrahim

Ph.D Candidate, Graduate Teaching Associate
she/her/hers

ibrahim.278@osu.edu

Hagerty Hall, 476

Areas of Expertise

  • Trauma Studies
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Gothic Literary Studies
  • Gender and Feminist Theory
  • SWANA Studies, Islam, and Modern Arab Literature
  • Critical Cultural Theory

Education

  • Graduate Minor Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - The Ohio State University
  • M.A. in 21st Century Literature - University of Lincoln, England, United Kingdom
  • 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 is currently the Graduate Research Associate for the Center for the Study of Religion and an instructor in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures. Shurouq’s research interrogates individual, vicarious, and cultural trauma in modern and contemporary fiction. Her current project examines the intersections between cultural trauma, gendered subjectivity, and the spiritual-supernatural in modern Arabic and Anglo Arab literature and film. She draws on decolonial trauma theory and feminist frameworks to analyze narratives written against the backdrop of violent collective experiences like colonialism and war. Shurouq is particularly interested in gothic tropes such as the qarina/spirit-double, the monstrous feminine, haunting, and embodied abjection.

 

Teaching Record

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