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Shurouq Ibrahim

Shurouq Ibrahim

Shurouq Ibrahim

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

ibrahim.278@osu.edu

Hagerty Hall
1775 College Rd S, Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Modern/Contemporary Arabic and Anglo Arab Literature
  • Migration and Diaspora Writing
  • Critical Trauma Theory
  • Gender and Feminist Theory
  • Cultural and Postcolonial Studies
  • Gothic Literary Studies
  • Comparative World Literatures

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
  • B.A. in English Language and Literature/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 modern and contemporary world literature. Her current project is located at the nexus of cultural trauma, gendered subjectivity, and the gothic 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 the qarina/spirit-double, the monstrous feminine, haunting, hybridity, and embodied abjection.

Selected Publications

  • Ibrahim, S. "Circular Hybridity: Reconciling Identity and Place in Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home," Cultural Practices of Place (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming, Oct. 2025) [Book Chapter]
  • Ibrahim, S. The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha, Arab Studies Quarterly, Pluto Journals, vol. 47, no. 2, 2025. 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
  • 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]

Selected Campus Awards 

  • Dissertation Year 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)
  • Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022)
  • 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)