Academic Overview
As a scholar-teacher working at the intersection of comparative and world literature, trauma and memory studies, and the environmental humanities, my research explores how contemporary literature and culture respond to planetary change and the ecological reconfigurations of trauma and memory. This page presents my principal research areas alongside my current undergraduate and graduate teaching portfolio, illustrating how my scholarly inquiries inform and shape my classroom practice.
Teaching & Research Specializations
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Cultural trauma and memory studies
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Environmental humanities & Blue humanities
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Arboreal studies
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Posthumanism, indigenous ecologies, animism.
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Gender & Sexuality Studies
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20th and 21st century Anglophone literature and arts
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Postcolonial theory
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Comparative & World literature / World Poetry
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Comparative Indigenous Studies
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Middle East & African Studies
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Global South
Undergraduate and Graduate Gourses Offerings
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Climate Change in Literature, Arts and Film KHAS 1452 25/26 Spring
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Trauma, Memory and Narrative: Literature and Film KHAS 1460 25/26 Spring
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Universal Values and Ethics KHAS 105 24/25 Fall
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Postcolonial Ecologies BOUN WESTLIT/ENGLISH 22-24