Translation Studies Hub Leadership Team

Nancy Bou Ayash is an Associate Professor of Language and Rhetoric in the English Department. She is the author of Toward Translingual Realities in Composition: (Re)Working Local Language Representations and Practices (winner of the 2021 Research Impact Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)) and co-editor of Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition (forthcoming with Utah State UP). She serves as elected Executive Committee Associate Chair of the CCCC Transnational Composition Group. 
Bringing together perspectives in rhetoric and composition, critical sociolinguistics, food studies, and translation studies, Nancy is currently working on a large-scale project in which she traces how the food habits and memories of immigrants and refugees in the U.S. from Lebanon and Syria travel across linguistic and national borders in order to create a new ethos of collective action through the prism of translation.