EDUCATION
PhD. in Adult Education, Teaching and Learning Processes.
Dissertation: Teaching Perspectives of Faculty Members at Arab Universities: Andragogy and Islamic Humanism. University of Missouri, Saint Louis. Spring 2020
Master of Arts in History. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri (Graduation Date May 2024).
Graduate Certificate in American History. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri (Graduation Date May 2024).
Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing. University of Missouri-St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri. May 2012
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. University of Missouri – St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri. August 2002
Bachelor of Arts in General Studies. University of Texas at Dallas. Dallas, Texas. May 1987
CERTIFICATIONS
Quality Matters Master Reviewer Re-Certification. May 2020
L.D. Fink: Designing Courses for Significant Learning. 4-Day Workshop – May 2013
Chair Academy. 2010-2011. Educational Leadership Training
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor of English. St. Louis Community College. January 2008 – present
Courses Taught
- Developmental Writing
- Developmental Reading
- Composition One (on campus and online)
- Composition Two (on campus and online)
- World Literature (specializing in Arab and Arab-American Literature and South Caucasus Literature)
- IDS 103 – Topics in Arab Culture
- IDS 101 – Harry Potter: Literature, Values, and Culture.
- GEN 200 – General Education Capstone
Faculty leadership positions held at St. Louis Community College
- Coordinator for Global Education
- Coordinator for Campus Writing Center
- Quality Matters Master Peer Reviewer for Internal Online Course Reviews, current
- Former Coordinator for the Center for Teaching and Learning
- Former Adult Learning Academy – MoHealthWINs Grant – Writing Lead
- Former Chair, English, Reading, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Foreign Languages
- Former Achieving the Dream Wildwood Campus Chair
- Former General Education Coordinator
Committee Service
- Governance (Campus and District-wide)
- Curriculum (Campus and Districtwide)
- Achieving the Dream (Campus and Districtwide)
- Academic Reorganization Committee
- Faculty Evaluation Revision Committee
- Various Hiring Committees
- Developmental Education Redesign Team
Student Club Sponsorship at St. Louis Community College
- Global Studies Club at STLCC – Forest Park, current
- Creative Writing Club at STLCC – Wildwood and Forest Park
TEACHING AWARDS
Missouri Community College Association’s Statewide Global Educator’s Award – 2018
John and Suanne Roueche Excellence Award. League for Innovation in the Community College. 2016.
Teacher of the Year – 2014 William J. Harrison Education Center at STLCC
Missouri Community College Association’s Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching – 2013
STLCC – Wildwood Campus Innovation of the Year – 2009-2010
COURSES DEVELOPED FOR COLLEGE-WIDE CURRICULUM
IDS 104 – Equity in Education: A Literary Journey
Fiction and non-fiction texts are examined to explore the U.S. education experience in past and present educational settings. Equity in educational settings and experiences is examined. Teaching and learning theory and leading educational philosophies are introduced.
IDS 103 – Topics in Arab Culture
This course examines current topics in Arab culture, although the past is studied to establish context. Students develop and express their own perspectives and value systems in response to moral and ethical issues presented in a study of current events in the Arab world.
IDS 101 – Harry Potter: Literature, Values, and Culture.
Students study the impact that literature has on our value systems by examining references to historical and cultural belief systems contained in the Harry Potter series. They develop and express their own perspectives in response to moral and ethical issues presented in the series. Assignments introduce students to basic literary theory and analysis, themes in world mythology, and scholarly criticism of the author’s work.
GLOBAL EDUCATION MODULES DESIGNED FOR CLASSROOM
Migration: Palestine-Israel. Teaching Module developed with the support of the Midwest Institute for International and Intercultural Education. https://cgs.la.psu.edu/teaching-resources/community-resources/curricular-modules/miiies-international-intercultural-module-migration-teaching-palestine-and-israel
Energy and Environment: Teaching Module developed with the support of the Midwest Institute for International and Intercultural Education.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Immigration to the St. Louis Region: Histories and Cultures| for the Ethical Society of Mid Rivers, Lecture, September 25, 2022
Introduction to Islam Eden Seminary -St. Louis 2019-2020
Breaking the Silence: IDF Veterans Break their Silence (Moderator) November 11, 2019
From Oslo to St. Louis: A Panel Discussion, Webster University February 25 2019
Gitana Productions’ “New World” St. Louis Public Library Thursday March 22, 2018
Gendering Memories of Iraq Wed Nov 29, 2017, 6:00pm – 6:00pm
MODULES DESIGNED FOR FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- The Flipped Classroom
- Writing to Learn
- Active Learning Strategies
- Courageous Conversations in the Classroom and in the Workplace
- Classroom Assessment
- Effective Feedback for Deep Learning
- Philosophies of Teaching
- Active Reading Strategies
- Learner-Centered Teaching Strategies
- Caring Instruction
PUBLICATIONS
Academic Articles
Wombs and Tombs Special Issue: Palimpsest: Fragmented Levels of History and Memory in This Stays Between Us: A Fantastical, Dialogical Archive. Publication in 2025
The Companion to Contemporary Arab American Literature. Editor Carol Fadda: Contemporary Arab American Illustrators. Publication in 2025.
Women in Higher Education Leadership. Editor Courtney Dorroll: A Journey toward Transformational Leadership: Dr. Feleccia Moore-Davis. Publication in 2025
Critical Indigenous Memory Studies. Editor Ethan Madarieta. Publication in 2025
Curriculum Guides
Bread and Roses Missouri Youth Initiative Curriculum Guide – 2016
Nonfiction
“Aliens and the Middle East: Four historic works that mention extra-terrestrials” (2022) (2021) Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/middle-east-aliens-historic-literature
“Revolution, migration and free will: Khaled Mattawa’s poems explore the notion of liberty” (2021) Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/libya-khaled-mattawa-poems-revolution-freedom-migration-liberty
“Jerusalem supernatural: Meet the Palestinian man hunting ghouls, ghosts and jinn” (2021) Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/palestine-jinn-ghoul-ghost-islam-legend-heritage
“Jérusalem surnaturelle : à la rencontre du Palestinien qui chasse djinns, ghouls et autres créatures extraordinaires” (2021) Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/actu-et-enquetes/palestine-folklore-legendes-surnaturel-djinns-ghouls-fiction-islam-patrimoine
“The Community College Mission: How Inclusive Pedagogy Emerged from the 1947 Truman Report and the Open Door to Higher Education” (2021) Hazine. https://hazine.info/pedagogy-round-table-goushey-community-college-mission/
“Reina Valentine’s Cosplay: A Beautiful Blend Of Knowledge, Skill, And Craft” (2021) The Fandomentals. https://www.thefandomentals.com/reina-valentines-cosplay/
Targaryens, Elves, And Dragons: The Beautiful Artistry Of ChillyRavenArt (2021) The Fandomentals. https://www.thefandomentals.com/targaryens-elves-and-dragons/
Barney Harris Delights Fans As Wheel Of Time’s Matrim Cauthon (2020) The Fandomentals. https://www.thefandomentals.com/barney-harris-matrim-cauthon-in-wheel-of-time/
Kuwaisiana: A Great Band With A Great Sound – World Music Finds Its Next Level (2020) The Fandomentals. https://www.thefandomentals.com/kuwaisiana-a-great-band/
Curious About The Wheel Of Time On Prime? Here Is A Primer On Robert Jordan’s Powerful And Inspiring Fantasy Series (2020) The Fandomentals. https://www.thefandomentals.com/curious-about-the-wheel-of-time-on-prime/
Love, Fandom, And The Dragon: Wheel Of Time Engages The Audience (2021) The Fandomentals. https://www.thefandomentals.com/wheel-of-time-love-fandom-dragon/
“I Know What Love Is: Fan Fiction, Folklore, And Resurrecting Daenerys Targaryen” (2020) The Fandomentals. https://thefandomentals.com/fan-fiction-folklore-resurrection-daenerys/
Creative Nonfiction
“October 2nd, 2009” (2019) Past Ten. https://www.past-ten.com/single-post/laylaazmigoushey
“Profile of a Citizen – Generations Then and Now” (2019). Beyond Memory: Arab-American Creative Nonfiction Edited by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa
“The Jordanian Kids” (2019) St. Louis Anthology edited by Ryan Schuessler.
Poetry
“Dream Particles” (2021) Strange Horizons http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/dream-particles/
“Single Witness” (2021) FIYAH https://www.fiyahlitmag.com/2021/12/13/single-witness-by-layla-azmi-goushey/
Goushey, L.A. (2017). “Letters from Diaspora – Unexamined Dialogues.” Sukoon. Retrieved from http://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/wp-content/uploads/Sukoon-Mag-Issue-8-W-2017.pdf
Goushey, L.A. (2017). “From Palestine to Ferguson.” Sukoon. Retrieved from http://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/wp-content /uploads/Sukoon-Mag-Issue-8-W-2017.pdf
Goushey, L.A. (2016). “Recipe for the Abbasid and Cities of Salt: Collective Memories.” Retrieved from http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2016/02/sand-opera-lenten-journey-day-19-recipe.html
Goushey, L.A. (2016). “Refuge.” Sukoon. Retrieved from http://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/wp-content/uploads/Sukoon-Mag-Issue-7-S-2016.pdf
Goushey, L.A. (2016). “Public Bath.” Sukoon. Retrieved from http://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/wp-content/uploads/Sukoon-Mag-Issue-7-S-2016.pdf
Goushey, L.A. (2017). “Potato Market.” Sukoon. Retrieved from http://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/wp-content/uploads/Sukoon-Mag-Issue-6-S-2015.pdf
Goushey, L.A. (2015). “A Gay Girl in Damascus, Revisited.” Yellow Medicine Review. Print.
Goushey, L.A. (2011). “The Box.” Natural Bridge. Print.
Goushey, L.A. (2007). “Origins.” Pastiche. Print.
Goushey, L.A. (1998). “Neighbors.” Gigantic. UMSL. Print.
Goushey, L.A. (1998). “The Box.” Gigantic. UMSL. Print.
Goushey, L.A. (1998). “Neighbors.” Distilled Muse. Audio.
Goushey, L.A. (1998). “The Box.” Distilled Muse. Audio
Goushey, L.A. (1995). “A Circumstance.” Deep Ellum Times. Print
Fiction
Goushey, L.A. (2015). On Cherokee Street. Mizna: Poetry, Prose and Art Exploring Arab-America. Print
“Layla Azmi Goushey reads her short story: On Cherokee Street at Mizna.” 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBHRhsdiAW4
Goushey, L.A. (1998). A Silent War. Blue Moon. UMSL. Print.
Blogs, News Articles, Book Reviews, Interviews With Authors
“Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Futurism in Arabic Literature: Interview with Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi” STLCC – International Education Week. 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_4p9WqN6g&t=554s
Book Review: “How the Water Holds Me by Tariq Luthun: A People’s History of the Palestinian Diaspora in Verse.” Jadaliyya, June 2020. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41261/Review-of-How-the-Water-Holds-Me-by-Tariq-Luthun-A-Peoples-History-of-the-Palestinian-Diaspora-in-Verse
Book Review: “The Specimen’s Apology” by George Abraham. Sukoon Magazine, February 2020. http://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/wp-content/uploads/Sukoon-Mag-Issue-11-W-2020.pdf
Book Review: “A Story of a City: Layla Azmi Goushey on Abdul Rahman Munif.” ArabLit Quarterly Fall 2018: Beginnings. Online. Behind paywall.
“Teaching Transnationalism as an Identity: Expressions of Simultaneity in Looking Both Ways: An Egyptian-American Journey by Pauline Kaldas.” Sukoonmag.com. 2018. http://www.sukoonmag.com/responsive/transnationalism-layla-goushey/
“ Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Abdelrahman Munif’s ‘Cities of Salt.’”Arabic Literature in English. 2017.https://arablit.org/2018/03/26/teaching-with-arabic-literature-in-translation-abdelrahman-munifs-cities-of-salt/
Book Review: “Seven Miles Deep by Pam Garvey.” The Collagist. 2017. http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2017/11/17/seven-miles-deep-by-pamela-garvey.html
Book Review: Imagine Not Drowning by Kelli Allen. The Collagist. 2017. Retrieved from http://thecollagist.com/the-collagist/2017/3/18/imagine-not-drowning-by-kelli-allen.html
“Sykes-Pico 101.” Transnational Literacies. 2016. http://transnationalliteracies.blogspot.com/2014/06/sykes-pico-101.html
“Transnational Mysticism: A Review of Yahia Lababidi’s Balancing Acts.” Transnational Literacies. 2014. http://transnationalliteracies.blogspot.com/2016/03/as-i-read-egyptian-american-poet-yahia.html
Book Review: Does Open Access to Higher Education Support the Goals of Social Justice? LaylaAzmiGoushey.com. 2014. http://www.laylaazmigoushey.com/book-reviews/book-review-community-colleges-and-the-access-effect-why-open-admissions-suppresses-achievement
“Education for Citizenship in Arab Countries – One Perspective” Transnational Literacies. 2014. http://www.laylaazmigoushey.com/transnational-literacies.html
Goushey, L.A. (2013). Texting: A Digital Lingua Franca. Transnational Literacies,. http://transnationalliteracies.blogspot.com/
“What a Child Doesn’t Receive He Can Seldom Later Give. P.D. James.” 2014 Eureka – Wildwood Patch. Retrieved from https://patch.com/users/layla-azmi-goushey
“Citizens, Prepare for Peace.” 2012. Eureka – Wildwood Patch. Retrieved from https://patch.com/users/layla-azmi-goushey
Goushey, L.A. (2012). A Role Model for Active Citizenship. Eureka – Wildwood Patch. Retrieved from https://patch.com/users/layla-azmi-goushey
Goushey, L.A. (2011)”Gifted Education: Pros and Cons” Eureka – Wildwood Patch. Retrieved from https://patch.com/users/layla-azmi-goushey
Goushey, L.A. (2011)”Sustainable Careers, Economies, and Lives” Eureka – Wildwood Patch. Retrieved from https://patch.com/users/layla-azmi-goushey
Goushey, L.A. (2011)”Student-Centered Conversations are Best for Solving Education Dilemmas. Eureka – Wildwood Patch. Retrieved from https://patch.com/users/layla-azmi-goushey
Goushey, L.A. (2011). Through the Open Door. Eureka – Wildwood Patch. Retrieved from https://patch.com/users/layla-azmi-goushey
Goushey, L.A. (2011). Cicadas are Divine. Eureka – Wildwood Patch. Retrieved from https://patch.com/users/layla-azmi-goushey
Goushey, L.A. (1995). Successful TMBA Seminar Well Attended. Texas Mortgage Banker’s Association Roundup, Winter/Spring 1995
Goushey, L.A. (1995). Mortgage Bankers Increasingly Turning to Outsourcing. Texas Mortgage Banker’s Association Roundup, Winter/Spring 1995
LITERARY AWARDS
Second Place for Poetry Published in a Missouri Journal. “The Box.” St. Louis Poetry Center, 2012
First Place, Poetry. Neighbors. Gigantic. University of Missouri St. Louis Litmag, 1997-98 Volume #14
First Place, Fiction. A Silent War. Novel Excerpt. Blue Moon University of Missouri St. Louis Litmag, 1998-99 Volume #15
Third Place Fiction. Success on the Installment Plan. Arab-American Writer’s Conference. Chicago, Illinois October 8-10, 1999.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
The Forest – STLCC Forest Park, Faculty Advisor and Editor, 2023
Sycamore – STLCC Wildwood Journal of Art and Literature, Faculty Advisor and Editor, 2008 – 2013
Natural Bridge, UMSL Literary Journal. Spring 2000, Number 3, Editorial Assistant
PUBLIC READINGS
Participant in Performance: Gendering Memories of Iraq orchestrated by the artist Hayv Kahraman. at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Select Poetry at 100 Thousand Poets & Musicians for Change – St. Louis. Sept. 2017
Select Poetry at 100 Thousand Poets & Musicians for Change – St. Louis. Sept. 2016
Select Poetry at First Bloom. Feb. 2016
Select Poetry at Women for Peace. Feb. 2015
Select Poetry at Poetry at the Point. Nov. 2014
Conference Publications
“Anything’s Possible: An Examination of the Trickster Archetype in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series.” Phoenix Rising Conference Compendium. 2007. Print.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Like Brothers: Arab-Owned Convenience Stores in St. Louis.” Arab American Studies Association 2020 Triennial Conference (conference postponed until 2021). 2020.
“Pedagogy and Andragogy in a Community College Classroom: Fostering Self-directed Research Skills in an Interdisciplinary MENA Studies Course.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting.2018
“Teaching Palestine-Israel.” Midwest Institute of International and Intercultural Education Conference. 2018.
“The Mukhtar of Dallas: Dr. Munir Bayoud’s Impact on Politics and Culture in the North Texas Arab- American Community after the 1967 War.” Waypoints and Watersheds: Arab American Activism and Memories, a Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War. Arab American Studies Association 2017 Conference March 24-26, 2017 Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
“Harry Potter and the Five Pillars of Islam.” STLCC – Forest Park. International Education Week. 2013.
“Youth in the Middle East: Reflections on Persepolis.” STLCC – Meramec. One Book, One College Keynote Address. International Education Week. 2011.
Islam as a Framework for Literary Interpretation: Critical Questions Applied to Postmodern and Millennial Texts. Contemporary Research in Arab American Studies. Arab-American National Museum. 2011.
“Facilitating Technology-Based Critical Literacy in Young Adults: J.K. Rowling as Storyteller.” National Council of Teachers of English Conference. 2010.
“An Ordinary Hero: Neville Longbottom and the Hero’s Path. and Anything’s Possible: An Examination of the Trickster Archetype in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series.” Phoenix Rising, Harry Potter Conference, Narrate Conferences. 2007.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Organizations
- Board Member – Arab American Studies Association
- Modern Language Association (MLA) Member
- Missouri Regional Association of Developmental Education (MRADE) Member
- Missouri Community College Association (MCCA) Member
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Member
Layla Azmi Goushey 