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Zayed University
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P.O. Box 19282 +971 4404 1857
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dustin 2
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
2012 TESL Diploma 120 + Victoria International Academy
Canada
2005-2011 Ph.D., English University of Victoria
Major: American Literature Canada
Minor: Critical Theory
1999 – 2003 M.A., English and Creative Writing Concordia University
Double Major Canada
1993-1998 B.A., English and Religious Studies Concordia University
Double Major
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2015 Assistant Professor English and Writing Studies
University College
Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
2013-14 Instructor English for Academic Purposes
Department of Language Studies and Academics
College of the North Atlantic, Qatar
2013 Assistant Professor English Composition and Literature
Department of Language and Translation
University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
2011-2012 Writing Specialist Academic Writing e-labs
Amrita University, India
2010-11 Instructor Academic Reading and Writing
University of Victoria, Canada
2009-2010 Teaching Assistant Introduction to Literary Traditions and
Transformations
University of Victoria, Canada
1999-2001 Teaching Assistant Introductions to English
Literature II
Concordia University, Canada
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
English literature; modernism; critical theory; psychoanalysis; ideology critique; literature and religion; globalization, migration, and citizenship, gender studies; academic reading and writing.
REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS:
“Ghost Words: Nightwood’s Cryptic Imperatives.” Criticism 57.1 (winter 2015).
“‘Now it Will Soon be Over”: Apocalyptic Redemption in H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea.” Genre 45.3 (fall 2012).
“Theravada Buddhist Influence in The Waste Land?” Notes and Queries 56 (Sept 2009).
Review of Approaches to Teaching H.D.’s Poetry and Prose ed. Anette Debo and Lara Vetter. Genre 46.3 (fall 2013).
Review of The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire by John Marx. Ariel 40.1 (January 2009).
LANGUAGES:
English native speaker
French proficient written and spoken
German intermediate written and spoken
DISSERTATION:
“Ghost Words and Invisible Giants: H.D. and Djuna Barnes Under Signs of the Imperative.” Successfully defended February 2011.
Dissertation Supervisor: Dr. Luke Carson.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“Love and Sense in H.D.’s Helen in Egypt and The Sword Went Out to Sea.”Louisville
Conference on Literature and Culture 39, Louisville, KY. February 2011.
“Cryptic Ghosts and Dysfunctional Patterns: H.D.’s Postwar Writing.” Modernist Studies
Association 12 (seminar paper), Victoria, BC. November 2010.
“H.D.’s Deferral of Meaning.” Modernist Studies Association 10 (seminar paper),
Nashville, TA. November 2008.
“Burning Wastes and Broken Structures: Buddhism’s Work of Demolition in The Waste
Land.” Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Public Lecture Series.
University of Victoria, BC. March 2008.
“Spectrality and Biopolitics in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood.” Modernist Studies Association 9 (seminar paper), Long Beach, CA. November 2007.
“Agency and the Hipster and Machoman Viewers of Judith Butler and Slavoj Žižek.”
Playing the Angles, Victoria, BC. March 2007.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2009: University of Victoria President’s Research Scholarship, value $3000.
2008: University of Victoria President’s Research Scholarship, value $3000.
2007-8: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Award, value $20,000/year (2 years).
2007: Ian H. Stewart Graduate Student Fellowship, value $5000.
2005-9: University of Victoria Graduate Fellowship, value $1500/year (3 years).
1999-2000: Concordia University Teaching Assistantships (2), value $2750 each.
1998-9: Concordia University Research Assistantships (2), value $1500 each.
CANDIDACY EXAMINATIONS:
Critical Theory and History of Literary Criticism (minor field)
Modern American Literature (major field)
Subjectivity, Language, and the Supernatural in the Work of Djuna Barnes, Jean Rhys, and H.D. (special topic)
REFERENCES:
Annick Durand (teaching supervisor) Zayed University
971.4402.1549
Dr. Peter S. Brown (teaching supervisor) CNA-Q
974.6674.3157
Dr. Juliana Gaipo-Mrabet (teaching supervisor) University of Tabuk
964.0782.225.1711
Dr. Luke Carson (dissertation supervisor) University of Victoria
01.250.721.7250
Dr. Nicole Shukin (teaching supervisor) University of Victoria
01.250.721.7270