Shurouq Ibrahim
Contact Information
Ph.D Candidate, University Fellow
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Areas of Expertise
- Modern Arabic and Anglophone Arab Literature
- Critical Trauma Theory
- Gender and Feminist Theory
- Postcolonial Studies
- Comparative World Literatures
- Gothic Literary Studies
Education
- Ph.D in Comparative Studies (in progress) - The Ohio State University
- Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - The Ohio State University
- M.A. in English (21st Century Literature) - University of Lincoln, England, U.K.
- B.A. in English/Minor in Translation - Birzeit University, Palestine
Biography and Research Interests
Shurouq Ibrahim is a Ph.D Candidate and University Fellow in the Department of Comparative Studies. She has also completed a graduate minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS). Shurouq’s previous research interrogated individual, vicarious, and cultural trauma in contemporary world literature. Her current project is located at the nexus of cultural trauma, gendered subjectivity, and the supernatural in 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 hybridity, the monstrous feminine, haunting, and embodied abjection.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Ibrahim, S. (2026). "Ez-Eldin, Mansoura. The Orchards of Basra, trans. Paul G. Starkey," Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/arabstudquar.48.1.0006 [Book review]
- Ibrahim, S. (2026). "Navigating Trauma through Arabic Gothic Literature," Ananke Magazine, https://issuu.com/anankemag/docs/ananke_voices_2026_/119?ff
- Ibrahim, S. (2025). "Circular Hybridity: Reconciling Identity and Place in Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home," Cultural Practices of Place: A Sense of Placing, Palgrave Macmillan, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96848-8_2 [Book chapter in an edited volume]
- Ibrahim, S. (2025). The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha, Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 2, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48828282 [Book review]
Research
- Graduate Research Associate, Center for the Study of Religion (2023-2025)
Teaching Record
- ARABIC 3702 | Place, Space, and Migration in Modern Arabic Literature and Film [Instructor of record]
- ARABIC/WGSS 2702 | Gender & Citizenship in Modern Arabic Literature in Translation [Instructor of record]
- COMPSTD 2301 | Introduction to World Literature [Instructor of record]
- RELSTDS 2370 | Introduction to Comparative Religion [Recitation Instructor]
Selected Campus Awards
- Distinguished University Fellowship, Comparative Studies (2025-2026 AY)
- FREE Center Graduate Small Grants for Feminist Scholarship (2025, 2024)
- Center for the Study of Religion Research and Travel Grant (2025, 2023)
- The Richard Bjornson Award for Best Essay by a Graduate Student in Comparative Studies (2022-2023 AY)
- Distinguished University Fellowship, Comparative Studies (2021-2022 AY)