
Shurouq Ibrahim
Ph.D Candidate, University Fellow
she/her/hers
Hagerty Hall, 476
Areas of Expertise
- Modern Arabic and Anglo Arab Literature
- Critical Trauma Theory
- Gender and Feminist Theory
- Postcolonial Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Gothic Literature
- 21st Century Trauma Fiction
Education
- Graduate Minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - The Ohio State University
- M.A. English - University of Lincoln, England, U.K.
- 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 world literature. Her current project is located at the nexus of cultural trauma, gendered subjectivity, and the gothic in modern Arabic and Anglo Arab fiction. 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.
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, 2025) [Book Chapter]
- Ibrahim, S. The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha, Arab Studies Quarterly, Pluto Journals, vol. 47, no. 2, 2025. doi=10.13169/arabstudquar.47.2.0007 [Book Review]
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]
Selected Campus Awards
- University Fellowship, Comparative Studies (2025-2026)
- 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 (2023)
- University Fellowship, Comparative Studies (2021-2022)