Shurouq Ibrahim
Ph.D Candidate, Graduate Teaching Associate; Graduate Research Associate, Center for the Study of Religion
she/her/hers
Hagerty Hall, 476
Areas of Expertise
- Critical Trauma Studies
- Postcolonial Theory
- Critical Cultural Theory
- Gothic Literary Studies
- Gender and Feminist Theory
- SWANA Studies/Islamic Studies
- Modern Arabic and Anglo Arab Literature
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]