Jyhene Kebsi

Dr. Jyhene Kebsi is the Director of Learning & Teaching. In 2018, she was hired by Macquarie University as a Permanent Full-time Assistant Professor. Since becoming a Tenured Assistant Professor, Dr. Kebsi has held different roles including the MA Program Convenor and L&T Director.

Dr. Kebsi has been teaching and researching in the fields of North African & Middle Eastern Refugee and Gender Studies. Dr. Kebsi's work has a special focus on refugee literature and cinema as she uses a transnational feminist approach in her analysis of the narratives and testimonies of refugee women and girls. Dr. Kebsi's research has appeared in the Journal of World Literature, The Journal of North African Studies, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, Postcolonial Text, Law & Literature and Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature. 

Dr. Kebsi's teaching sheds light on migration, globalization, decolonization and feminisms in the MENA region. Her courses focus on decolonial feminism, colonial feminism, imperial feminism, transnational feminism, state feminism, ecofeminism and Islamic feminism. Dr. Kebsi's courses have a special concentration on the literary and cinematic representations of forced immigrants and asylum seekers. Before coming to Macquarie University, Dr. Kebsi taught at the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, SME College and the University of Saint Thomas in the United States. 

Dr. Kebsi is a reviewer for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, the Journal of North African Studies and Contemporary Levant. She is also the founder and convenor of the Transnational Texts & Communities Network, which discusses topics that range from migration and asylum through radicalization and terrorism to feminisms in the MENA context. This network organizes panels, workshops and conferences. Dr. Kebsi is the recipient of mutiple prizes and awards, including Fulbright.

Dr. Kebsi welcomes supervision of Ph.D. and MA (MRes) students in the following areas:

. Refugee and migrant literature and cinema

. Postcolonial literature and globalization

. Arab-American, Arab-Canadian, Arab-British and Arab-Australian literature and cinema

. Anglophone North African literature and cinema

. Colonial and imperial feminist writings

. Postcolonial and transnational feminism(s)

. Maghrebi and Islamic feminism(s).