I have been involved in several committees and engaged with several organizations to support my field. My professional services extend from the department to the college, the university, and the field at large.
Department-Level Service
Member of the DEI & Social Justice Committee. English Dept at WVU, August 2024-Present.
Member of the Advisory Board of SpeakWrite at WVU, August 2023-Present.
- SpeakWrite is a Communication Across the Curriculum initiative that certifies courses and programs with effective communication principles in course design and instruction.
Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Writing Excellence at WVU, August 2023-Present.
- As a SpeakWrite expert, I coordinate with other writing program administrators (from the English Department) plans and strategies to foster students’ writing development and transfer.
College-Level Service
Member of the Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee, August 2024-Present.
- I review new syllabi submitted by faculty members for new courses
Member of the Committee of the Outstanding Research Award, July 2023-Present.
- I review faculty applications for this award and evaluate them according to pre-set guidelines regarding their research scope and scholarship, number of publications, number of citations …etc.
Member of the Advisory Board for the Higher Education in Prison Initiative (HEPI), July 2023-Present.
- I work with a team of faculty members who teach courses and coordinate programs to inmates at SCI Greene (a PA State Correctional Institution).
University-Wide Service
Judge at the 8th Annual Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium at WVU, April 2024.
- Reviewing and evaluating poster presentations of undergraduate students.
Judge at the Annual Scholars Forum at IUP, April 2023.
- Reviewing graduate and undergraduate students’ posters and presentation skills and evaluating them based on rubric prepared by the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Field-Wide Service
Assistant Editor for WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, May 2023-Present.
- Coordinating editors’ meetings, preparing meeting agendas, and writing meeting minutes.
- Coordinating new submissions to be assigned to editors.
- Managing a submission-tracking system that includes several sheets for submissions in the following stages: in-progress, pre-review, published, and rejected/withdrawn.
- Sending a weekly to-do list for editors to handle submissions at different stages of the publication and review processes.
Reviewer for The Peer Review, May 2022-Present.
- Reviewing articles and recommending articles for revision and resubmission, acceptance, or rejection.
Reviewer for Composition Forum, August 2021-Present.
- Reviewing articles and recommending articles for revision and resubmission, acceptance, or rejection.
Volunteer Writing Instructor, Literacy Pittsburg, September 2021-Present.
- Holding biweekly one-on-one meetings with refugee STEM writers to teach them writing skills.
- Designing lesson plans and writing assignments.
- Giving feedback and working with students to further develop their writing skills.
Volunteer ESL Instructor, The Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education (ARYSE), September 2021-Present.
- Holding initial meetings with high school refugee students for goal setting.
- Holding biweekly groups and one-on-one meetings to teach them ESL lessons.
- Designing lesson plans and assignments and giving feedback for development.
Volunteer at TESOL Convention, Registration and Bag Distribution Center, March 2022.
- Managing attendees’ conference registration, badges, and information bags.
- Assisting attendees with locations of their presentations or presentations they want to attend.
Students’ Representative, English Department, Ain Shams University, April 2015 and April 2016.
- Holding meetings with students to brainstorm and list ideas, complaints, or suggestions from students.
- Attending annual departmental meetings as students’ representative and presenting and discussing students’ ideas.
Delegate, Ain Shams University Model of United Nations (ASMUN), January 2015- June 2015.
- Discussing topics presented in the UN's security council.
- Representing countries and in a model of UN’s Security Council meetings.