Hanan Jasim Khammas

Professional Title

Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies

Department(s)

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)

About

Hanan Jasim Khammas – Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature, University of Michigan. PhD in literary theory and comparative literature from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Author of Writing Through the Body: Iraqi Responses to the War on Terror (2024). Her research focuses on contemporary Iraq’s cultural semiotics of corporeality, gender, and sexuality, as well as the development of the feminist intellectual production in Iraq and its transnational allies.

Research Interests

humanities
social sciences
mixed methods
art
transnational
violence
literary criticism
literature
Arabic
Spanish