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)