Lamees Al Ethari

Lamees Al Ethari is an Associate Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Waterloo. Her academic journey began in Baghdad, where she earned a BA from Al-Moman University College and an MA from the University of Baghdad. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, she completed a second MA at Kansas State University before immigrating to Canada and earning a PhD from the University of Waterloo.

Her research explores:

• Life Writing/Women's Life Writing
• Arab and Arab North American literature, history, and culture
• Diaspora and Postcolonial Theory
• War and Trauma in literature

She is currently preparing an autoethnography titled Patterns of Telling, examining women's life narratives in the diaspora.

Professional roles include:

• Nonfiction Editor for The New Quarterly
• Co-Founder of The X Page Project
• Knowledge Mobilization Committee Member for The Naomi Shihab Nye Prize

Awards and honors:

• SSHRC Connection Grant for 'The X Page' (2019-2020)
• National Magazine Award in Poetry nominee (2019)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2011-2013)
• Multiple Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards
• Fulbright Scholarship (2006-2008)