Research Interests

Research Interests

 The Department of English includes among its members specialists in several fields. Our department now includes approximately one hundred male and female academic members, including professors, teaching assistants, lecturers and specialists in the fields of English literature, translation and linguistics. Our research interests cover a wide range of interests in literature, linguistics and translation, which extend to include both the dominant disciplines of the field, in addition to the less widespread ones.

 Linguistic Studies

The Department of English covers a wide range of topics relating to Linguistics including syntax and morphology; phonetics and phonology; semantics; psycholinguistics; discourse analysis and multimodality; second language acquisition; cognitive linguistics; and teaching writing in English.

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Literary Studies

Our department covers a wide range of topics relating to English literature, including the following: American literature; British literature; modern literature; medical humanities; postcolonial studies; women’s poetry in the Victorian period; twentieth century novel; modern and contemporary poetry; literature of the long nineteenth century; renaissance and eighteenth-century literature; Muslim women literature; contemporary postcolonial and human rights narratives; and constructions of Islam and the middle east in English discourse.

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 Translation Studies

The department covers a range of topics relating to the field of translation including audio-visual translation, translation and interpretation, legal translation, translation of literary texts, and translation of Islamic texts.

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