Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan, Graduate Student  

Email Address: zeena.fuleihan@duke.edu

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• Writing 275s.01, Communication in digital age Synopsis

  Bell dorm 113, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• Lit 354s.01, Intro to psychoanalytic theory Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 102, WF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

Recent Publications

1. Fuleihan, ZY, Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 18 no. 3 (November, 2022), pp. 414-418, Duke University Press [doi] .
2. Fuleihan, ZY, The Fancy Girl Episteme: Tracking the Legacy of Master-Slave Rape in the Evolution of the Tragic Mulatto Trope, The Comparatist, vol. 46 no. 1 (October, 2022), pp. 124-133, Project MUSE [doi] .

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Zeena Yasmine Fuleihan is a doctoral candidate in the Program in Literature with certificates in Feminist Studies, Middle East Studies, and College Teaching. Her research looks at the relations of fantasy, sexual violence, and the colonial encounter through postcolonial literatures, torture cases, psychoanalysis, and theories of violence and desire in the Middle East and North Africa. She holds an MA in Literature from Duke University, an MA in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory from King’s College London, and a BA from Macalester College. In addition to graduate study, Zeena has worked in publishing at Coffee House Press, as a teacher of creative writing for adults with developmental disabilities, and as editor of Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America.