I am a professor of English or rather englishes, and a creative nonfiction writer. My scholarship, writing, and teaching are all an extension of how I have made sense of who I am: a cosmopolitan thinker, a Belgian-Iranian-Armenian American who believes identities only matter insofar as they are flexible, shifting, contingent, and most importantly relational (i.e. we are who we are both because of and thanks to our relationships with others).