Reem Taha is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed her MA in English literature with a collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture at the University of Toronto. 

Her dissertation focuses on fifteenth to seventeenth-century Iberia and North Africa, particularly exploring travel and movement across the Mediterranean, outlining a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the Moriscos (Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism in early modern Iberia). She studies the role of Moriscos in textual transmission between Arabic and Romance languages, as well as their resonance in early modern English and Spanish literatures.