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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, the postcolonial, modernity, historical fiction, immigrant literature, Arab American writing, transnational literature.

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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 Ajšić

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, language policy, global English, intercultural communication styles (verbal & nonverbal), culture and thought, interlanguage and intercultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition.

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Dr. Firas Adnan Al-Jubouri

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in English Literature, Newcastle University, UK

Research areas

Dystopian writing (George Orwell), twentieth century English Literature and Gothic writing.

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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. Sun-Hee Bae

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

PhD in Linguistics, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA

Research areas

Phonetics/Phonology, Syntax/Prosody, and Experimental Linguistics

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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 Spoken Arabic Pragmatics

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Dr. Alessandro Benati

Professor | Head of Department

Terminal degree

PhD in Applied Linguistics, University of Greenwich, UK

Research areas

Second Language Acquisition, Input Processing Theory, Second Language Processing, Processing Instruction, Language teaching and Instructed Second Language Acquisition

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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. Jana Fedtke

Assistant Professor

Terminal degree

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

Research areas

Transnational Fiction; Gender Studies; Postcolonial Theory, Literatures, and Film with a focus on South Asia

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Dr. Nawar Al-Hassan Golley

Professor

Terminal degree

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

Research areas

Literary & Cultural Theory, Autobiography, Arab Women’s Writings, 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 Doyle 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

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