Mounawar Abbouchi

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 et Olive", a thirteenth-century chanson de geste. 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.

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 with the UGA at Oxford Program as a Graduate Administrator.

When she is not busy looking at old books or stuck in an airport, she is probably cooking/baking, taking a nature walk, or practicing martial arts.