Meryem Kamil
Assistant Professor, Film & Media Studies
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2019, American Culture
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 2013, Ethnic Studies & Political Science
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 2013, Ethnic Studies & Political Science
ORCiD: 0000-0003-2355-2839
University of California, Irvine
2000 Humanities Gateway
Mail Code: 2435
Irvine, CA 92697
2000 Humanities Gateway
Mail Code: 2435
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
new media studies, postcolonial studies, Palestine/Palestinian social movements, ethnic studies, American studies
Websites
Appointments
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2020
Department of Ethnic Studies
University of California, San Diego
Department of Ethnic Studies
University of California, San Diego
Publications
with Irina Aristarkhova, Iván Chaar-Lopez, Anna Fisher, Tung Hui Hu, Cindy Lin, Silvia Lindtner, and Lisa Nakamura as Precarity Lab, “Digital Precarity Manifesto” in Social Text, Duke University Press (December 2019)
“Post Spatial, Post Colonial: Accessing Palestine in the Digital” in Social Text, Duke University Press (September 2020)
with Cassius Adair, Iván Chaar-Lopez, Anna Fisher, Cindy Lin, Silvia Lindtner, Lisa Nakamura, Cengiz Salman, Kalindi Vora, Jackie Wang, and McKenzie Wark as Precarity Lab, Technoprecarious, Goldsmiths Press (November 2020)
Review of video essay Colors of Palestine by Niall Ó Murchú and Mark J. Miller in [inTransition]: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies (2023)
"PeaceMaker: Simulating Settler-Colonialism and Subaltern Gaming" in e.d. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media (Amherst College Press, 2025)
Professional Societies
American Studies Association
Other Experience
Affiliate
Native American and Indigenous Studies, UC Irvine
Native American and Indigenous Studies, UC Irvine
Link to this profile
https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6808
https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6808
Last updated
03/15/2026
03/15/2026