Soha Youssef, PhD

• "I was interested in learning English but not study it": Two Case Studies of Saudi Arabian Developmental College Writers. MENA Writing Studies Journal, 2(1). Pp. 31-51.​ (Spring 2026). 
• “A Crisis of the Professoriate?” Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy." Richard Watermeyer, Mary P. Sheridan, Aline Courtois, Soha Youssef, Kalpana Shankar, Joanne Hardman, John Aubrey Douglass, Petra Angervall, Sharon Stein, Christopher Newfield, LuMing Mao, Prachi Deshpande, Myles-Jay Linton, and Penny Jane Burke. pp. 1-18. (August 2025).
• “Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET): Implications of Meaning Negotiation as Critical Pedagogy.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL), 25(3). pp. 1-20. (September 2025). 
• “International Teaching Assistants’ (ITAs) Needs and Undergraduate English-Speaking Students’ (NESSs) Expectations: Meaning Negotiation as a Rhetorical Strategy.” Threshold Conscripts: Rhetoric and Composition TAships. William J. Macauley, Jr., Leslie R. Anglesey, Brady Edwards, Kathryn Lambrecht, and Phillip Lovas (Eds.). Perspectives on Writing series. WAC Clearinghouse (Spring 2023). pp. 239-266. 
• “Self-Reflexivity is/as Resistance.” In Recollections from an Uncommon Time: 4C20 Documentarian Tales, Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series. Julie Lindquist, Bump Halbritter, and Bree Straayer-Gannon (Eds.). CCCC/NCTE (Spring 2023). pp. 177-184. 
• CCCC Position Statement on Language, Power, and Action. Yavanna Brownlee, Eunjeong Lee, Ana Milena Ribero, Shawna Shapiro, Soha Youssef. (Spring 2023)
• “Sett bmit ragel ‘A Woman as Good as 100 Men:’ An Arab Woman’s Narratives on Discrimination in and outside Academia.” Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School. Kimberly McKee and Denise Delgado (Eds.). University of Illinois Press (Spring 2020). pp. 36-51. 
• “Whereing Identities: Teaching Writing as Community-based Practice.” Ohio Journal of English Language Arts. Caleb James, Lee Nickoson, Adam Sprague, and Soha Youssef. (Fall/Winter 2016). 56(2): online. pp. 9-22.  
• “Timeline JS Review.” Computers and Composition Online. (Fall 2015): online. 

• “My Mundane Professional Life.” Composition Studies, Soha Youssef et. al.  (Spring 2019) 
• “Literacy Artifacts: Preserving Tools, Methods, and Teachers’ Technologies of the Long Nineteenth Century.”, Soha Youssef et. al., Bowling Green State University Student Digital Gallery. (Fall 2016)
• “CEAO Presentation: A Reflection.” Rhetoric and Writing Notes. (Spring 2016)

Translation Studies, American University in Cairo, 2006

• Thomas Jefferson University Award for Outstanding Teaching - 2021
• Nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award at the college level - 2021
• Dissertation Research Fellowship ($14,000) - 2017
• Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Essay Contest (First place) - 2017
• Nominated by the English Department for Graduate Student Teaching Award - 2015
• CCCC PEP Grant - 2014
• Distinguished International Student Award, Eastern Illinois University - 2014

Youssef’s research interests center around locating intersections between rhetoric and TESOL. More specifically, she is passionate about rhetorically preparing graduate and undergraduate English language learners in a way that eases their transition to the North American academy. She further examines the effectiveness of such rhetorical preparation in informing students’ growth as writers. Most recently, her research has expanded on her passion for cultural rhetorics as she analyzes the discourse of Egyptian Arabic proverbs that are grounded in sexist, racist, and/or toxic masculinity mindsets by way of unpacking the problematics of such language in terms of the self-perception and identity formation of Arabic speakers. 

Cultural Rhetorics, Critical Pedagogy, Writing Assessment, Rhetorical Grammar, Writing about Writing, Transfer Theory, Meaning Negotiation