Karina Eileraas Karakus is a published author and professor with over a decade of teaching experience at UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, and Pomona College. Her teaching, research, and writing address gender and sexuality, nationalism, revolution, film, fashion, music, visual culture, social media, digital citizenship, bodily protest, sexual violence, transnational trauma, global reproductive politics, and diaspora, centering especially on the Middle East & North Africa. Eileraas Karakus is the author of Between Image and identity: Transnational Fantasy, Symbolic Violence, and Feminist Misrecognition. She has also published a wide range of journal articles and book chapters.
Annelise Eileraas is a Barnard College 2025 graduate, filmmaker and journalist researching freedom of expression – particularly dance between New York and Tunisia. She investigates intersections of technology and movement at the Barnard Movement Lab and Movement Research, and publishes arts and culture journalism for outlets including Glasstire. Annelise has served as a 2023 PEN America Freedom of Expression Fellow as well as a Delegate to the 2023 UNESCO World Press Freedom Day and the 2021 UN Commission on the Status of Women.
