The Department of English Research Groups
1. Hajj and Umrah
The Hajj and Umrah research group focuses on Hajj and Umrah literature written from inside and outside of the Muslim religious tradition. It also aims to explore issues relating to the historical, social, political and geographical contexts of the Islamic pilgrimage.
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2. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies research group is a multi-disciplinary group that brings together members from the department whose research aims to explore topics relating to Islam and the Middle Eastern world.
Key areas of interest include:
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Quranic studies
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Arabic and the Arab-speaking world
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Saudi dialects
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Translating Islamic texts
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Arabic literature
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Saudi literature
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Literature and national identity
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Orientalism and beyond
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Christian-Muslim relations
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Constructions of Islam and the Middle East in English discourse
3. Theatre, Film and Culture
The Theatre, Film and Culture research group brings together members from the department whose research interests covers a range of topics relating to theatre, film and cultural studies.
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4. Computer Corpus Research on Language
The Computer Corpus Research Group is an interdisciplinary group that brings academics from the department who are interested in using corpus linguistic methods and tools in language data collection and study. As corpus linguistics is a fast-growing field that contributes to different areas of language study, this research group aims at facilitating and encouraging the use of corpus approaches and techniques in compiling as well as analysing various types of corpora. Since corpus linguistics is basically a methodological approach that incorporates quantitative and qualitative methods, this research group specializes in the application of corpus techniques in any type of research involving the analysis of language in linguistics, language learning and literature.
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The Linguistics Studies research group brings together members from the department whose research interests covers a wide range of topics relating to Linguistics.
Key areas of interest include:
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Syntax and morphology
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Phonetics and phonology
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Semantics
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Psycholinguistics
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Language, culture and national identity
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Language, ideology and power
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Heritage and mother tongue language
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Language policy
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Discourse analysis and multimodality
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Second language acquisition
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Cognitive linguistics
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Teaching writing in English
The Literary Studies research group brings together members from the department whose research interests covers a wide range of topics relating to English literature.
Key areas of interest include:
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Literature and national identity
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American literature
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British literature
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Modern literature
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Medical humanities
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Postcolonial studies
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Women’s poetry in the Victorian period
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Twentieth century novel
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Modern and contemporary poetry
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Literature of the long nineteenth century
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Renaissance and eighteenth-century literature
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Muslim women literature
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Contemporary postcolonial and human rights narratives
The Translation Studies research group brings together members from the department whose research interests covers a wide range of topics relating to the field.
Key areas of interest include:
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Translation and cultural exchange
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Translation and transcultural encounters
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Translation and comparative cultural studies
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Intercultural mediation
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Language, text and context
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Translation and interpretation
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Audio-visual translation
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Translation of literary texts
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Legal translation
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Translation of Islamic texts
