Degree: Began PhD program in 2025
Concentration: Arab-American Literature, Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Composition & Rhetoric
Advisor: Professor Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr.

Summer strives to locate and create discursive (counter-)communities capable of not only uncovering the links between language and power, but also of speaking truth to power. Her interests lie in the intersections of postcolonial and speculative fiction, gender studies, and new materialism. With a focus in Arab-American (specifically Palestinian and Jordanian) women’s Anglophone literature, Summer hopes to examine mimetic representations of (domestic) space, work, speech, and craft. She believes that the study and production of text is a privilege– one she hopes to make more accessible as an academic– and that it is only by understanding language that we can understand the world we live in as well as imagine and author (tentatively) brighter futures.

• B.A. & M.A. English, SUNY New Paltz