Helen D. Aloskan

Helen became a Jusoor Alumna upon her graduation from Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in 2020. Helen's main area of interest is literary theory and philosophy of language. She seeks to implement close reading as a theorizing tool to parse out different modes of understanding of linguistic and poetic phenomena across contexts. Raised in Syria and based in the US, Helen is also highly interested in the dynamics of cultural transfer, mapping of intellectual activity, and the formation of public and collective identities.

Academic Institution

Doha Institute

Qatar

Field of Study

Comparative Literature

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Since the scholarship, in 2022, she joined Georgetown University to pursue a PhD in Literature at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Helen’s research addresses concerns of a philosophical, linguistic, and literary nature; her work has so far covered questions pertaining to the evolution of philosophical concepts in the Greco-Arabic tradition as well as untranslatability and the fundamental difficulties facing speculative discourse.

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