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Ms. Alaanoud Abusalim

Senior Instructor

Terminal degree

Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Composition, Southern Illinois University, USA

Research areas

L2 Writing, ERPP; Instruction and Curriculum Design; Excellence in Teaching; Research Writing; Research Evaluation

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Dr. Maya Aghasi

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Research areas

narrative, gender and gender expression, world and transnational literatures, immigrant literature, Arab American writing, film, comics.

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Dr. Khawlah Ahmed

Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in English, State University of New York, NY, USA

Research areas

Language and literature teaching approaches/theories; Learning and Instruction; TESOL;curriculum development; intercultural-cross cultural communication; culturally relevant pedagogy; Educational Technology; Arab Islamic culture and its connections to the English language and literature.

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Dr. Adnan Ajsic

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, USA

Research areas

Corpus linguistics; (critical) discourse analysis; language ideologies; language policy; sociolinguistics; sociocultural aspects of second language acquisition

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Dr. Ahmad Al-Issa

Professor | Associate Dean

Terminal degree

PhD in Rhetoric and Linguistics,Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA

Research areas

Language and identity, global English, pragmatics, language planning and language policy, intercultural communication (verbal & nonverbal)

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Dr. Fatima Badry

Professor Emerita

Terminal degree

PhD in Psycholinguistics, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA

Research areas

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Dr. Maher Bahloul

Associate Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Linguistics, Cornell University, New York, USA

Research areas

Theoretical & Applied Linguistics;Teaching & Learning Through the Arts; Linguistics for Language Teachers; Teaching English to Arabic-Speaking Students; Arabic Dialectology and Arabic Pragmatics

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Dr. Neslihan Bilikozen

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

Doctorate of Education in TESOL, Exeter University, Exeter, UK

Research areas

Critical applied linguistics, critical issues in second language writing, culture and curriculum, language and identity, academic literacy development in ESL/EFL

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Mrs. Randa Bou-Mehdi

Senior Instructor

Terminal degree

Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, American University of Sharjah

Research areas

Plagiarism in the writing classroom, using technology in the classroom, feedback methods

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Dr. Rachel Buck

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona, USA

Research areas

Reading, Genre, English for Academic Purposes, Student Plagiarism

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Mr. Laurence Craven

Senior Instructor

Terminal degree

Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Research areas

Written Corrective Feedback, CAF Measures, Technology in the Classroom

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Mr. Brad Curabba

Senior Instructor

Terminal degree

Master of Arts in Teaching, School of International Training, USA

Research areas

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Learning Design, e-learning in Higher Education

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Ms. Hoda El-Bakhour

Instructor

Terminal degree

MA, English Literature, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Research areas

She would like to investigate effective teaching writing strategies including, but not limited to, constructive assessment and feedback tactics. She is currently researching the use of technology to deliver instruction, assess, and provide feedback. <br>She is also interested in exploring how...

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Dr. Tharwat El-Sakran

Professor

Terminal degree

PhD, University of Bangor, UK

Research areas

TESL, TESOL, ESP, Translation, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Forensic Linguistics, Intercultural Communication and fraud.

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Dr. Maria Eleftheriou

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

Doctorate of Education, University of Leicester, UK

Research areas

Traditional, contemporary and alternative tutor training models, writing center assessment, on-line tutoring and teaching practices, code-switching in the Writing Center

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Dr. Jana Fedtke

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

Research areas

Transnational Literatures; Gender Studies; Postcolonial Literatures

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Dr. Daniel Fredrick

Associate Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, Texas Christian University, USA

Research areas

Classical Rhetoric, Cicero, The Art of Delivery in Public Speaking, Latin, Orality and Literacy, Composition (EFL), Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Literature (Classical and World)

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Dr. Neena Gandhi

Associate Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in English, Delhi University, India

Research areas

Postcolonial Theory, Postcolonial Literature, Modern European Drama,The Modern Novel, Partition Literature

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Dr. Nawar Golley

Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Literary and Critical Theory, University of Nottingham, UK

Research areas

Literary & Cultural Theory, Autobiography, Arab Women's Writings, Women's Travel Writing; Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures & Discourses; Gender & Women's Studies; Women in STEM; Global Education.

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Dr. Tammy Gregersen

Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Linguistics, Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile

Research areas

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Dr. Kristen Highland

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in English Language and Literature, New York University, USA

Research areas

Early and Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture; Book History and Print Culture; Cultural Geography; Material Culture; Spatial Humanities; Digital Humanities

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Dr. Natalie Honein

Visiting Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

EdD, Doctor in Education, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Research areas

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Mr. Christopher Horger

Senior Instructor

Terminal degree

MA in Rhetoric, University of Arizona, USA

Research areas

Rhetoric, Pragmatics, Cross-cultural Communications

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Dr. Brian McAllister

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in English Literature, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Research areas

Modern and Contemporary Literature, Poetry Studies, Narrative Theory, Spatial Theory, Ecocriticism, Science Fiction

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Dr. Philip McCarthy

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Research areas

Software design, text and corpus analysis

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Dr. Zsuzsanna Munday

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

EdD, University of Bath, UK, 2014

Research areas

Economics of education, cultural studies, international and corporate communication

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Dr. Roger Nunn

Professor | Head of Department

Terminal degree

PhD in TEFL, University of Reading, UK

Research areas

Holistic Learning, Academic Literacy, Classroom Method-in-Use, Non-Blind Journal Paper Review, Text and Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Communication, The Meaning of Objectivity, Systemic Linguistics, Contrapuntal Readings of Literature

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