Education
PhD, English, University of Minnesota, anticipated degree date: 2017
Dissertation: “The Taming of the Tigress: Gender and Shakespeare in the Arab World”
Minor: Early Modern Studies
Advisors: Nabil Matar and Katherine Scheil
MA, English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, May 2011
Thesis: “Piracy, Slavery, and Assimilation: Women in Early Modern Captivity Literature”
Advisors: Stephen Buhler and Julia Schleck
BA, English, Brigham Young University, April 2009
Cum Laude, Dean’s List
Publications
“From Bandello’s Novelle to Carlell’s Osmond, the Great Turk: Female Captivity and the Irene Narrative in Early Modern European Literature” in The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe, Javier Irigoyen and Marcus Keller, eds. (Palgrave MacMillan) (Forthcoming 2017).
“’Once more to the breach!’: Wikipedia’s Gender Gap, Shakespeare, and the Online, Digital Elite” in Broadcast Your Shakespeare, ed. Stephen O’Neill, (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). (Forthcoming 2017).
“The Taming of the Tigress: Fatima Rushdi and the First Arabic Shrew,” Critical Survey 28.3 (Winter 2016).
“Beware of Eve (اه من حوا) [An Egyptian Taming of the Shrew].” MIT Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive. Global Shakespeare Video Archive. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“Slavery in the Middle East.” A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650. Anna Riehl, Carole Levine, and Michele Osherow, eds. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2016. 5 pp.
“Lodowick Carlell,” “Gilbert Swinhoe,” and “William Okeley,” Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900. Boston, Massachusetts: Brill, 2016. 343-351, 359-366, 459-467.
“’We’ ll Wear out Great Ones’: Maria Pickersgill, Letitia Landon, and the Power of the Improvisatrice.” Romantic Textualities: Literary and Print Culture, 1780-1840. (Winter 2011): 7-23.
