About

I am a perfectionist. Whatever you write about, I will give it the attention it deserves.

I completed my PhD from the department of Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley in May of 2020, where I specialized in Hebrew and Arabic literatures, cultural production in Israel/Palestine and critical theory.

I have a wide-ranging scholarly grasp of fields in politics, the arts and humanities and am particularly well versed in topics related to English literature, world literature (especially of the Middle East), and twentieth century movements of critical theory and philosophy. I speak and read Hebrew and Arabic fluently and am proficient in French and Spanish.

I have taught composition courses at UC Berkeley and the Prison University Project at San Quentin.

I have proofread, fact-checked and edited work by award winning authors.

Credentials:

·  University of California, Berkeley, PhD, Dissertation: Radical Abandon: In-Between Agency and Self-Attenuation in Israel/Palestine
·  New York University, M.A.
·  The University of Chicago, B.A.    
·  Givat Haviva and Lugha Wahida, Israel, Levantine Arabic immersion
·  Qasid Language Institute, Amman, Jordan, Modern Standard Arabic and Levantine Arabic summer intensive
·  Middlebury College, Oakland CA, Modern Standard Arabic Language Immersion Program

Sample publications of my own include:

• “‘The Poem Is What Lies Between A Between’: Mahmoud Darwish and the Prosody of Displacement”, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 22.1 (March 2020)

• “How to Live Different Deaths: Withdrawals from Abrahamic Kinship in Dahlia Ravikovitch and Mahmoud Darwish” (link forthcoming), Comparative Literature Studies 58.2 (April 2021)

References available upon request.