Norah Rami

My research interests focus on the political implication of storytelling. I study English with a Concentration in Critical Theory and Political Science with a Concentration in Political Theory. Currently, I am working on an independent research project on literary interpretation in sedition trials of the British Raj. I am also assisting Professor Batten on their monograph on medieval masculinities. I am a 2025-26 Andrea Mitchell Fellow, and I am a research assistant at the Center for Advanced Study of India. This summer, I am a Dow Jones News Fund Intern at Chalkbeat. On campus, I work at the Marks Writing Center as a Penn Writing Fellow. I am the Editor in Chief of Penn's arts and culture magazine, 34th Street. 

Last summer I conducted field research on the literary market of College Street in Kolkata, India is funded by the Center for Advanced Study of India, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Penn South Asian Center, and Vitale Digital Media Lab. My previous work experience includes interning as a Fox Fellow at CHILD USA as well as teaching poetry at Writers in the Schools. I have previously worked as a research assistant for the Computational Social Science Lab Penn Media Accountability Project and at Penn Digital Humanities Lab on Dr. Brent Cebul's project regarding mortgage equity distribution post World War II. In 2023, I received the Universe in Verse prize from the Kelly Writers House to research visually representing spoken word poetry through linguistic analysis. My writing can be found in The New York Times, Dirt Media, Teen Vogue, Philadelphia Obituary Project, Chalkbeat, and the Philadelphia Citizen.

• Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Fellow
• 2025-2026 Andrea Mitchell Fellow
• Stallybrass Prize Winner