PhD Candidate · Michigan State University
آيات إسماعيل
/ aye-YAT isss-Mah-eel / · (Yoyo)
Digital Humanities · Palestinian Film Studies · Feminist Surveillance Theory
Who I Am
I am a PhD student and CHI Fellow at Michigan State University, working at the intersection of digital humanities, Palestinian film studies, and feminist surveillance theory, with a specialization in Women and Gender Studies. I also hold certificates in Film Studies, Global Studies, and Digital Humanities.
Cinematic Counter-Cartographies is my most recent major digital project which is an attempt to do scholarship in a form that matches my main argument: that space, story, and resistance cannot be separated.
My research centers Palestinian women filmmakers and the formal strategies through which cinema refuses, rather than simply documents, occupation. I am particularly interested in what feminist witnessing makes legible that conventional archives cannot hold.
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