Miss Chunyan Jia is a final year PhD candidate in Literary Translation Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research interest includes classical Chinese literature, poetry translation, style and the Stylistics theory. Her PhD thesis is “West-East Interpretation of Classical Chinese and Japanese Literature: A Case Study of Burton Watson’s Translation”.
Mollie Guba is a junior at Northwestern University studying Philosophy and Legal Studies. She is the Senior VP of Education at the Institute for Youth in Policy. She led the only student presentation at the 2023 AP Annual Conference and is a Research Assistant at Northwestern’s Department of Sociology and School of Law. Her interests include civics education, polarization, and law
Maryam Zoweil is a freshman at UT Austin studying Business Honors. She serves as the Director of Education Data Analytics at the Institute for Youth in Policy. She is the secondary author of a study exploring the efficacy of discourse in civics curriculum and has been featured in national civics events. She is interested in civics education and depolarization.
Ms. Huma Saeed is a Ph. D scholar serving as Lecturer at NUML, Pakistan. Her research interests encompass Literary theory, Postcolonial and Postmodern studies. She likes to travel and she is an avid reader. At the moment she is a promising candidate for the Associate Fellowship of the National Academy of Higher Education (NAHE).
Oana Condurache is a first year PhD candidate in Philology at the West University of Timișoara, Romania’s Doctoral School in the Humanities, specializing in American Studies and Ethnic Feminist writings. She completed her dissertation on ethnic autobiographies and childhood trauma. She received 1st prize for her presentation and her published article on the global novel as part of the INTERCULTURALIA International Symposium University of in Iași. Her recent article, “Should Chicano Literature Be Part of the American Studies?” is forthcoming in the American Studies Series.
Pablo Salvary Gassilloud is a 4th year Bachelor student in political and social sciences at Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University (Japan).
His research focuses on political repression and international relations in the Asia-Pacific region.
Jędrzej Michalik – master’s student in speech therapy at University of Gdańsk, author of the articles in the field of speech therapy, linguistics and neurolinguistics; participant in grant “A multilevel investigation of the discourse of Polish language speakers diagnosed with mixed aphasia”.
Dr. Maria Cristina Gomes Da Conceicao is a Medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, specializing in Public Health at Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Master, and Ph.D. in Population and Development. She is a teacher and Researcher at the Latinamerican Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO Mexico, and currently a guest researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her areas of interest are poverty, inequalities, intersectionalities, gender, race, social class discrimination, social policies, and health.
Dr. Hend Hamed is an assistant professor of English Literature at the department of English, AOU Kuwait. She obtained her M.A. in Irish poetry and PhD in American literature in 2010 and 2014 respectively. She has extensive experience in teaching English language and literature courses in universities in Egypt and Kuwait. She has many publications in reputable journals and presented at several international conferences. Her research interests include Romantic literature, resistance literature, ethnic-American literature, and trauma studies.
Hamad Alajmi Associate Professor of Arabic literature at Kuwait University, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, College of Art. Academic Degrees: – Bachelor degree, in Arabic Language and Literature, 2004, Kuwait University. – M.A in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2008, Indiana University, Bloomington. – Ph.D., in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2012, Indiana University, Bloomington.
