Education

  • BAs in Comparative Literature, French, and Spanish with a minor in Arabic from Penn State University
  • MA in Comparative Literature from Penn State University
  • Certificate in Literary Translation from University of Houston-Victoria

Research

  • Translation of gender and sexuality identities between languages and cultures.
  • Human rights literature, refugee writers, and writers in exile using translation as a tool of subversion and propagation of message.
  • Language’s role in identity formation.

Publications

Articles

Field of Interest

Translation studies, Gender and sexuality, Contemporary Arabic, French, and Spanish literature, Human rights, exile, and migration

Languages

Arabic, English, French, Provençale, and Spanish