Lecturer
Born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia to Lebanese parents, Dr. Abir Ward, a multinational and multilingual, had lived on three continents before the age of 20. She taught at the Lebanese American University where she started the annual creative writing workshops and poetry competition and at the American University of Beirut (AUB) where she led the editorial work of Pages Apart, a 700-page academic reader used for teaching English. In 2019, Dr. Ward founded 2Rāth, a social justice initiative engaged in the politics of representation. 2Rāth helped create articles on Wikipedia about notable Arab women, and its work has so far garnered over 20 million views. Dr. Ward has published numerous articles on justice-oriented pedagogy, and her research has appeared in Elsevier’s Women Studies International Forum, TESOL’s SRIS, and Computers and Writing Conference Proceedings. She was the recipient of the CCCC Wikipedia fellowship in 2021 and the Middle East Partnership Initiative grant from the US Department of State. At Boston University, Dr. Ward teaches primarily international students in the Writing Program and is the curator of TEDxBU.