Discipline: Media and Visual Arts Department

Degrees: BA, University of Texas at Austin, Department

of Art and Art History and the Center for Women's and

Gender Studies; MA, University of Pennsylvania,

Communication; and PhD, University of Pennsylvania,

Communication.

Research Interests: Gender and identity, technology and digital media, and social movement activism

Discipline: Media and Visual Arts Department

Degrees: BA, Middle East Technical University, Industrial Design; M.Sc, Delft University of Technology, Design for

Interaction; and PhD, Middle East Technical University,

Department of Industrial Design.

Research Interests: Design for user experience (UX),

Research methods, Design education, Design for

interaction, Internet of Things (IoT), Design for well-being, Digital health, Positive psychology, Systems approach

Discipline: Philosophy Department

Degrees: BA, Fudan University, Philosophy; MA,

University of Wisconsin, Philosophy; and PhD,

University of Massachusetts, Philosophy.

Research Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science,

Logic; Decision theory, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Mind

Discipline: Academic Writing

Degrees: BA – English Language and Literature, Bilkent

University (2002); MA – English Language Teaching, Bilkent University (2006)

Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, multilingualism and interlanguage

Fun Fact: One thing on my bucket list is attending an

open water swimming event such as the Chia Sport

Week in Sardinia or El Cruce in Mexico . This might help me overcome my fear of jellyfish or large fish species.

Discipline: Composition and Applied Linguistics

Degrees: BA English Literature (American University of

Beirut, 2008); MA English Literature (American

University of Beirut, 2011); PhD Composition and

Applied Linguistics (Indiana University of Pennsylvania,

expected 2023)

Research Interests: Transnationalism and Composition, World Englishes and Writing Instruction, Postcolonial

Critical Pedagogies

Fun Fact: Marwa is hard for most people to say, and the easier equivalent is Merve

Discipline: Contemporary literary and cultural studies

Degrees: M.A. in American Literature, M.A in Cultural

Studies; PhD in English, Contemporary Global

Anglophone literature, University of Missouri

Research Interests: Diaspora narratives, contemporary world literatures, postcolonial studies, 21st-century

Muslim writing, transnationalism, composition studies

Fun Fact: I failed Physical Education twice in high school because I persistently refused to turn a somersault

during the exams (because I can't)