Education

  • B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2013
  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2023

Publications

Articles

Field of Interest

Medieval and early modern literature; Mediterranean studies; History of sexuality; History of Medicine; Madness and psychoanalysis; Folklore and fairy tales

Languages

Arabic, Turkish, Persian; French and Kurdish (reading)

Professional Activities

  • Charles Bernheimer Prize for best dissertation, Honorable Mention, American Comparative Literature Association (2024)
  • Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Religious Studies (2023-2024)

Biography

I am a scholar of medieval and early modern literary culture interested in comparisons between Arabic, English, Turkish, and Persian literature. Foregrounding the centrifugal histories of the Mediterranean, my work asks how Islamic literatures can contribute to rethinking conceptual paradigms in the Anglophone humanities today. My first book project, Maddening Love: Rethinking Desire with Romantic Epics, aims to challenge dominant approaches to desire in the Anglophone academy by asking how Islamic romantic epics theorize the relationship between romantic love, familial love, and communal care, and how their theorizations are similar to and different from their counterparts in medieval European literature. 

 

My broader research interests include the history of medicine, madness and psychoanalysis, the history of sexuality, and folklore and fairy tales. I am continuously drawn to questions of how the past both haunts and inspires us as we aim to build alternative futures. My work has been published or is forthcoming in postmedieval, Comparative Literature Studies, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.