Please join us for the next installment in our "No More Than A Page" series. This series gives an opportunity for faculty and advanced graduate students to receive feedback on their research in process. Presenters provide attendees with a one-page summary of their current research and attendees engage in a lively discussion.
Shurouq Ibrahim will detail the events of a research trip to Cairo, Egypt in December 2023. She'll reflect on conversations she had with different Muslim Egyptian women about their knowledge and perceptions of Rabi'a al-Adawiyya, the first female Sufi Saint.
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.
This event is free and open to the public. Hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion, the Department of Comparative Studies and the Humanities Institute.
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