Ashwak Fardoush

A graduate from SUNY at Buffalo, Ashwak Fardoush currently teaches first-year writing courses at St. John’s University and CUNY-Queensborough Community College. She focuses on postcolonial literature and theory. Some of her research interests include trauma theory, body politics, national identity, immigration experience, tension between standard and nonstandard language varieties, oral narratives and composition studies. In her spare time, she likes to write short stories and poems in college-ruled notebooks. For more information, please visit her teaching ePortfolio: https://sites.google.com/site/ashwakfardousheportfolio/welcome.