Making Home Away: A Digital Archive
An archive showcasing the ways in which Syrian refugees make themselves at home in temporary spaces of displacement. Funded by the British Academy. Launching August 2020: makinghomeaway.com
Making Home Away: Special Issue
Alongside co-investigators Professor Vicki Squire and Professor Suzan Ilcan, I am co-investigating a one day symposium on migration, with an attention to what it means to make home, away, at the University of Reading on June 12, 2020.
We have had to delay this event due to emerging situations, and its work will be collated instead within various outputs. More information will be available on our digital archive, "Making Home Away" to be launched in June, 2020.
We have had to delay this event due to emerging situations, and its work will be collated instead within various outputs. More information will be available on our digital archive, "Making Home Away" to be launched in June, 2020.
The Haneen Project: Community Engagement
This creative arts project offers poetry writing workshops to refugees living in displacement. For more on the project, see here.
The Tented Lives of Refugees: Public Engagement Exhibit
This pop-up exhibit features the recreation of the exterior and interior of a typical refugee's home in Zaatari refugee camp, for audience members and visitors to walk through and experience. With a UNHCR tent deocrated by a Syrian refugee at the center of this exhibiit, visitors are invited to explore the interior and exterior space of such interminibly temporary "homes," encouraged to reflect on what "home" looks like for those focibly displaced, indefinitely.
Funded by the British Academy as a "showcase event," it will be on display at the UK-wide Being Human festival in Autumn.
Orginally awarded funding as an exhibition at the (covid canceled) British Academy Summer Showcase in London, UK, June 18-20, 2020. Virtual showcase events were broadcast.
Funded by the British Academy as a "showcase event," it will be on display at the UK-wide Being Human festival in Autumn.
Orginally awarded funding as an exhibition at the (covid canceled) British Academy Summer Showcase in London, UK, June 18-20, 2020. Virtual showcase events were broadcast.
We Were the New York School: An Interview Collection
This collection of interviews offers a space for the New York School poets to say who they are and what they meant and mean, on their own terms. Contracted with Edinburgh University Press, for publication in 2021.
When We Talk About Home: Oral History, Testimony, and Poetry of Migration
This book-project reads interviews with refugees and displaced subjects of recent migration crises against poetry that addresses such human movement. Featuring theoretically informed commentary on a self- curated collection of interviews with refugees from Syria, Palestine, and Africa, this project asks what "home" means to these "placeless people" who left their homes under the assumption that their displacement would be temporary. How do the displaced make themselves at "home" in supposedly temporary settings? How do they sense lost homes when they create new homes? This project features original interview material, and reads it alongside the contemporary poetry of migration.
This work ultimately aims to faciliate understanding between worlds of the developed and the developing; the settled and the rootless, revealing the universal in definitions of home. Interpreting oral histories as literary and cultural contributions to ongoing studies of space/place, kinship, care, ethics, and home, this work of creative nonfiction speaks to both academic and popular audiences.
This book project has been generously supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2021-2022).
This work ultimately aims to faciliate understanding between worlds of the developed and the developing; the settled and the rootless, revealing the universal in definitions of home. Interpreting oral histories as literary and cultural contributions to ongoing studies of space/place, kinship, care, ethics, and home, this work of creative nonfiction speaks to both academic and popular audiences.
This book project has been generously supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2021-2022).
Stanza: A Digital Humanities Public Engagement Project
This Digital Humanities project engages public audiences with the poetry of their place(s). Originally created as a mobile app, it presents its general user with a sense of the literal density of urban places. Stanza is a user-friendly app ultimately aiming to engage the public in a sense of the literariness of places. Stanza (Italian, after all, for “the places one stands in”) integrates geo-tagged information with GPS technology to smoothly present its pedestrian with a sense of the poetry of their environment. In 2017, this project was generously awarded a seed grant by Florida Atlantic University's South Florida Cultures Platform, and in 2020 by a seed grant from the University of Reading's English Department.
Stanza will be available as part of www.Breadcrumbsthegame.com in October 2020.
Stanza will be available as part of www.Breadcrumbsthegame.com in October 2020.