Ayaat Ismail
Palestinian Studies; Ethnic Studies; Women and Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Surveillance Studies; Memory Studies; Carcerality Studies; Resistance Narratives
Office: C709 Wells Hall
Email: ismailay@msu.edu
Knowledge Commons Profile: https://hcommons.org/members/yoyo/
Ayaat Ismail (she/her) is an English Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, focusing on 21st-century Palestinian cultural production, with a particular interest in the portrayal of Palestinians in literature and film. She explores how memory, surveillance, infrastructure, and carcerality exist within these works and how Palestinians demonstrate sumud amongst the current genocide.