My Family History Is My History | Nadine Koochou Explores Assyrian American identity through writing

For her Canterbury Scholars project at Santa Clara University, Nadine Koochou ’24 centers her Assyrian American identity in a series of poems and creative nonfiction. Inspired by a lifelong love of reading, Koochou strives to create the types of stories that she wishes she could’ve read as a child. In this audiogram, Koochou shares the poem My Grandma’s Apartment, which explores language and love in her family’s history.
About the Canterbury Program:
Since 1997, the Canterbury program has provided faculty mentoring and financial support for select senior English majors conducting independent research projects at Santa Clara University. Canterbury Scholars research and write a senior scholarly or creative project. Topics include literature and cultural studies, book history and digital humanities, creative writing, professional writing, rhetorical studies, and pedagogy and teaching studies.
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