Saniya Taher is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. Her work spans Psychoanalysis, Post-Colonial Theory, Critical Theory and Black Studies, and brings together Arabophone, Anglophone and Francophone literary, political and theoretical texts from the mid-20th century to the present.

Research project at EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities":

"Pansement", or Tending to the End of the World: On Fanonian Poetico-Political Structures of Redress