I am a writer, speaker, and educator in global digital media at Northwestern University, where I am an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies. I also hold a courtesy appointment in the Middle East and North African Studies Program, and an affiliation with Northwestern Qatar's Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South. 

My research examines the creative strategies and tactics used by transnational youth as they navigate the changing power dynamics of contemporary globalization. I am currently working on my first book project, All Your Meme Are Belong To Us: Internet Cultures in the Global South, which explores creative practices in online civic engagement across geopolitical contexts and languages such as Mandarin, English, Arabic, Hebrew, and French. 

I have also published academic articles and book chapters on online culture mixing, Arab and Chinese media politics, and critical transnational pedagogy in venues such as: Asian Communication Research; Media, Culture & Society; International Journal of Communication, and Information, Communication and Society. I am a co-editor for the forthcoming anthology, The Intersectional Internet II: Power, Politics and Resistance Online (Peter Lang, Fall 2023).

I am an award winning teacher. I use critical feminist and transnational pedagogies to guide students to think about the power dynamics involved in global media issues and internet cultures. My current course offerings at Nrothwestern include: Media & Publics Across Cultures, Critical Internet Studies, Going Viral: The Powers & Perils of Internet Culture, and The Imperial Internet.

Outside of the academy, I am an accomplished global public educator. I am on the editorial board of Pop Junctions: Reflections on Entertainment, Pop Culture, Activism, Media Literacy, Fandom, and More. I have led workshops for organizations such as NowThis, Gimlet Media, The Onion, and The Writers Guild of America. I have given talks at colleges, universities, libraries, museums, and public forums across the U.S., Palestine, Scotland, Egypt, China, Israel, Qatar, France, and Canada. My public writing on popular culture and politics has appeared in Arabic, Hebrew, and Anglophone publications. 

Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, I was an Assistant Professor of Global Civic Media in the Comparative Media Studies|Writing program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

My educational background includes a dual-major BA (2009) and MA (2015) in Asia Studies and Communication and Journalism from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MA (2019) and PhD (2021) in Communication from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School.

You can stay up to date with my work and events by following me on Google Scholar, Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedIn, or, more rarely these days, Twitter.