Tuka Al-Sahlani
Doctoral Student
Tuka Al-Sahlani is a rhetoric and composition doctoral student in the English department at the Graduate Center, CUNY, a GC Digital Fellow, and an adjunct lecturer. Her interests include cultural rhetorics, translanguaging practices, feminist, affective, and digital pedagogy.
Social
Website
cuny.is/talsahlani
Education
Ph.D. English, Graduate Center, City University of New York, expected 2029
Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate, Spring 2024
M.S. Ed. Adolescent Education, St. John’s University, 2012.
Publications
“Review of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery” by Jennifer L. Morgan, Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 3/4, 2025, pp. 223–26.
With Jamie Borgan, “Using Distant Reading in a Social Welfare Practicum Course,” Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. Assignments, June 2024
Positions
Graduate Center Digital Fellow, GC Digital Initiatives, Fall 2023- present
UNIVERSITY TEACHING: Lead Instructor
• ENG 101: FYW: Authorship and Exploration, John Jay College, CUNY, Fall 2025
• ENG 126: Composition II: Writing about Literature, York College, CUNY, Fall 2025
• ENG 162W: Literature and Place (SEEK Section), Queens College, CUNY, Fall 2024
• ENG 110: FYW: Language and Literacy, Queens College, CUNY, Fall 2022
• ENGL 220: Writing About Literature, Hunter College, CUNY, Fall 2022-Spring 2023
Projects
- Feminist Digital Pedagogy, Course Archive, Spring 2025
- Arab American Women Academics, Digital Index, Spring 2024
- Listen for the Iraqis in NYC!, Audio Mapping Project, Fall 2018. Retired.
Grants
Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant, March 2026
Cindy and Dickie Selfe DMAC Fellowship, May 2025
Mina Rees Library Open Pedagogy Fellowship, Winter 2022
Academic Interests
cultural rhetorics| translanguaging practices| feminist, affective, anddigital pedagogy
