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Our Faculty

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
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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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Dr. Özgür Parlak

Assistant Professor
Terminal degree
PhD in Linguistics, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Research areas
Second Language Acquisition, L2 phonology and phonetics
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Dr. Marija Reiff

Assistant Professor
Terminal degree
PhD in English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Research areas
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Ms. Sana Sayed

Senior Instructor
Terminal degree
Master of Arts in English, California State University, Fullerton, USA
Research areas
Teaching theories in composition courses at the post-secondary level; women and politics; gender and identity in Victorian Literature
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Dr. Aisha Sayidina

Assistant Professor
Terminal degree
PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Exeter, UK
Research areas
Cultural impact on literacies, intercultural rhetoric and discourse organization.
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Dr. Ji Shim

Assistant Professor
Terminal degree
PhD in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
Research areas
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Mr. Greg Vanderpyl

Instructor
Terminal degree
MA TESOL, School of International Training Graduate Institute, USA
Research areas
Linguistics, academic discourse, etymology
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Mr. Christopher Weagle

Instructor
Terminal degree
Master of Arts in English Literature and Creative Writing, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Research areas
Higher Education Research, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Academic Writing, Creative Writing (Poetry)
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