PhD Candidate Writing Center Consultant Instructor of Record Mounawar Abbouchi (she/her) is a PhD candidate focusing on late medieval literature. Mounawar is from Beirut, Lebanon where she did her undergraduate studies in English literature. She came to UGA in 2013 on a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue an MA in Comparative Literature. Her thesis was an edition and translation of Yde and Olive, an Old French poem from the late 13th to early 14th century. This was the first translation of the poem into English and was published in Medieval Feminist Forum in 2018. She returned to UGA to begin a PhD program in 2021, specializing in Middle English literature. Mounawar has a decade of teaching experience. She teaches literature, college composition, ESL, and elementary French. She also works at the Willis Center for Writing as a Writing Consultant, and has worked with the UGA at Oxford Program as a Graduate Administrator. When she is not busy looking at old books, she is probably cooking/baking, taking a nature walk, or practicing martial arts. Education Education: BA in English, Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon, 2011 Teaching Diploma in TEFL, Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon, 2012 MA in Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2015 Research Research Interests: Her current research looks at what happens to representations of feminine anger in medieval adaptations of classical sources. Other areas of interest include: History of Emotion, Anger, Women in the Middle Ages, Translation and Multilingualism in the Middle Ages, Adaptation and Remediation, Middle English, Old & Middle French, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Book and Manuscript History, Paleography Selected Publications Selected Publications: "Yde and Olive." Medieval Feminist Forum. Subsidia Series no. 8. Medieval Texts in Translation 5, 2018. Review of L’objet-fétiche: Littérature, cinéma, visualité by Massimo Fusillo. Recherche littéraire/ Literary Research, vol. 31, no. 61-62, Summer 2015, pp. 90-93.
