Reem Hilal

  Reem Hilal

 

Education

  • B.A. Communicative Disorders, UW-Madison
  • M.A. Dept. of African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison
  • Ph.D. candidate  Dept. of African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison

 

Current Courses Taught

  • REL 222.01  Introduction to Islam
  • REL 300      Departmental Studies: Muslim Responses Post 9/11

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • FLAS for Arabic – 2006-2007
  • Teaching Fellow – 2006-2007
  • Jordan Prize for Master’s Thesis – 2006
  • FLAS for Arabic – summer 2005 and 2006
  • FLAS for Arabic – 2003 – 2004

 

 

Conference Presentations

  • “African Muslim Slave Writings and Muslims in America: Identities in Transition” – Middle East Studies Association (Nov. 2006)
  • “African Muslim Slave Writings” – International Converence on Islam – Madison, WI  (March 2006)
  • “Locating Islam on the American Landscape: the Writings of Omar ibn Said and Bilali Muhammad” – Islam and Social Justice, University of Michigan (March 2006)
  • “Growing Up as a Muslim American” – Social Justice Conference, Dept. of Counseling Psychology, UW-Madison (March 2007)
  • “Constructing an Outlandish Narrative of Self: The Role of Music in the Muslim Experience” – Middle East Studies Association (Nov. 2008)
  • “Between Constructions: Tracing a Narrative of Self in Muslim Western Writing” – Middle East Studies Association (Nov. 2010)

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Arabic Language Studies
  • Muslim Identity in the Diaspora
  • Religious Identity in Literature and Popular Culture