Nabila Hijazi
Nabila Hijazi
Teaching Assistant Professor of Writing
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Nabila Hijazi
Ames Hall
2100 Foxhall Road, NW, Office 223
Washington DC 20007
Dr. Nabila Hijazi joined the George Washington University Writing Program in August 2022, following over a decade of research and teaching at the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at Loyola University Maryland. Her research interests include rhetoric surrounding immigrants and refugees in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the (mis)representation of Muslim women, an area informed by her experience as a Syrian immigrant. Her work also explores multilingual writing and the literacy practices of Syrian refugee women. Her research has been published in well-regarded journals, such as Composition Forum and Constellations, and several edited collections. Her work received national recognition: Her dissertation, “Syrian Refugee Women in the Diaspora: Sustaining Families through Literacies,” received honorable mention in the 2020 Presidents Dissertation Award by The Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and her essay, “Reclaiming Forgotten Literacies-Agency through Functional, Rural and Food Literacies” received honorable mention in the 2021 Council of Writing Program Administrators, Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA Studies. Hijazi was a 2021 semifinalist for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Outstanding Teaching Award and a recipient of the 2022 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award and the 2024–2025 CCCC Emergent Researcher Award. She was also awarded the 2025 Robert Kenny Prize for her innovative approach to teaching University Writing1020. Currently, she is at work on a monograph that focuses on Syrian refugee women’s literacy practices and the migration of literacies.
Dr. Hijazi is an affiliated faculty member of the Global Food Institute at GW.
UW1020: Contested Bodies: Beyond a Standard Refugee Narrative
UW1020: Feeding Hope: Writing, Food, and Refugee Agency in the DC Community
UW1020: Writing with Threads: Textiles, Embroidery, and the Narratives of Refugees
“Bait al-Mouneh: Traditional Syrian Homemaking as Roots for Women’s Agency.” Constellations. Issue 7 Special Issue, edited by Kimberly Wieser, Christina Cedillo, and Ana Milena Ribero. 2024.
“Dismantling Racial Microaggression: Translingual, Nonnative Identities as Pedagogical Resources.” Nonnative English-Speaking Teachers of U.S. College Composition: Exploring Identities and Negotiating Difference, edited by Mariya Tseptsura and Todd Ruecker. The WAC Clearinghouse, International Exchanges on the Study of Writing, 2024. 63-78.
“Reclaiming Forgotten Literacies: Agency through Food Literacy.” Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies: Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts, edited by Eileen Schell, Pritisha Shrestha, and Dianna Winslow. Lexington Books, 2023. 19-36.
“Syrian Refugee Women’s Voices: Research Grounded in Stories and Recipe Sharing.” Transnational Research in Technical Communication: Stories, Realities, and Reflections, edited by Nancy Small and Bernadette Longo. SUNY Press, 2022. 115-130.
“Bodies in Conflict: Embodied Challenges and Complex Experiences.” Inter-chapter in Our Body of Work: Embodied Administration and Teaching, edited by Melissa Nicholas and Anna Sicari. Logan: Utah State UP, 2022. 131-136.
“Zainab Al-Ghazali: Transgression or Affirmation of Gender Roles.” Feminist Circulations: Rhetorical Explorations Across History And Geography, edited by Jessica Enoch, Danielle Griffin, and Karen Nelson. Parlor Press, 2021. 62-82.
“We Cannot Teach Composition in Isolation--Anything We Say is Culturally Shaped.” Interview with Shirley Wilson Logan. Composition Forum 38 (Spring 2018).
University of Maryland (2020), Ph.D., English Language and Literature: Concentration in Language, Writing, and Rhetoric
University of Maryland (2009), M.A., English Language and Literature: Concentration in Language, Writing, and Rhetoric
University of Maryland (2005), B.S., Accounting and Minor in English Literature, Magna Cum Laude