Graduate studies committee

OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES


Ira James Allen

1. 
   “Rhetorical Personhood and the Self-Transcending Constitution.” Paper (invited) to be presented at the Radical Critical Theory Circle, Nysiros, Greece. (2016).
   
2. 
   “Simone de Beauvoir, Value, and Freedom’s Rhetorical Design.” Paper to be presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, GA. (2016).
   
3. 
   “Translation’s Rhetoric.” Paper to be presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, GA. (2016).
   
4. 
   “Classics, the Classical, and the Canonicity of the Critical.” Roundtable paper presented at Liberal Arts and the Modern University: The Role and Place of the Core Curriculum – AUB, Lebanon and Beyond, Beirut, Lebanon. (2016).
   
5. 
   “A Political Economy of the Senses: Author Meets Critics.” Critical paper presented at the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, (2016).
   
6. 
   “On the Writing Center as Religious Contact Zone.” Paper presented at the Middle East and North Africa Writing Center Association, Muscat, Oman (2016).
   
7. 
   “Suffusion, Mobilization, and Constitution-Writing: Religion and Politics after America.” Paper presented at the Center for American Studies and Research 6th International Conference, Beirut, Lebanon. With Saul Allen. (2016).
   
   
   

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi

1. 
   Books in Motion: Exploring Concepts of Mobility in Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book, international conference and book exhibition organized by the Department of English and the Department of Fine Arts and Art History, AUB, 05–07.05.2016 (curated together with Hala Auji and James Hodapp).
   
2. 
   Presented paper: “Contemporary Book Art in Iraq: Intimate Encounters and Unfolding Narratives of Survival Beyond East and West.”
   
3. 
   12^th EURAMAL (European Association for Modern Arabic Literature) conference on Upholding Humanity in a Post-human World? Arabic Literature after the ‘Arab Spring’, University of Oslo, Norway, 30.05-04.06.2016.
   
4. 
   Presented paper, “Unpacking Wannous’ library in light of radical political change” at “Contemporary Book Art in Iraq,” keynote at the Mutanabbi Street Festival, School of Art, George Mason University, 03.03.2016.
   
5. 
   Advisory board, Orient-Institut Beirut, Max Weber Foundation, German Humanities Institutes Abroad, director search, board meetings at the University of Mainz, 20.02.2016, and the OIB, 14.16.04.2016.
   
6. 
   Advisory board member, Beiruter Texte und Studien, book series published by the Orient-Institut Beirut, Max Weber Foundation, German Humanities Institutes Abroad.
   
7. 
   Editorial board member, literatures in context: arabic – persian – turkish, book series, Wiesbaden: Reichert.
   
8. 
   Reviewer of articles for the journals International Journal of Middle East Studies (JMES), Journal of Arabic Literatures (JAL), Studies in the Novel.
   
9. 
   Reviewer of book manuscripts for Ashgate/Routledge; reviewer of research proposals German Research Foundation (DfG) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
   
10. 
    Chairperson, Department of English, AUB.
    
11. 
    Member, Search Committee in Translation, Department of English, AUB.
    
12. 
    Member, Graduate Committee, Department of English, AUB.
    
13. 
    Member, Steering Committee, CAMES, AUB.
    
14. 
    Advisor and reader of MA theses in the Department of English.
    

Doyle Avant

1. Member of Program Review Committee, Department of English

2. Member of Graduate Open House Committee

3. Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English

4. Creative Writing Program Coordinator

5. Member of ENGL-FAAH Committee to organize and launch the Minor in Film and Visual Culture.

David Currell

1. 
   “Milton and/as World Literature,” paper presented at 11th International Milton Symposium, Exeter, UK (July 20-24, 2015).
   
2. 
   “Why Does Titus Andronicus Give Pleasure?” Paper presented at Shakespeare Association of America annual convention, New Orleans, USA (23-26 March, 2016).
   
3. 
   “‘Necessity and Chance Approach Not Me’? Milton, Modality, Multiverse,” paper presented at Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Boston, USA (31 March-2 April, 2016).
   
4. 
   Introduction to Julie Sanders, “Shakespeare and Music,” Al-Bustan Festival (February 19, 2016).
   
5. 
   Organizer and discussant, “Shakespeare Lives in Film”; a series held with the support of the British Council, AUB (April-October, 2016).
   
6. 
   Discussant, “Digital Remediations,” Books in Motion conference, AUB and Orient-Institut Beirut (May 5-7, 2016).
   
7. 
   Faculty Advising Coordinator, FAS.
   
8. 
   Member, Search Committee in Media Studies (professorial line).
   
9. 
   Member, Search Committee in Media Studies (visiting position).
   
10. 
    Member, Program Review Committee, English Department.
    
11. 
    Member, Graduate Committee, English Department.
    
12. 
    Adviser for one defended MA thesis and one defended proposal; committee member for two defended theses.
    

Joshua Gonsalves

1. 
   A teaching exception was granted for the 2015-2016 year due to my receipt of a Center for Arts and Humanities [Mellon Grant] Faculty Fellowship for the project: The Brutal Melodrama and the Generic Possibility of Politics: Amerika/Germany/ Egypt/Russia , Included under the category “Development of New Courses.”
   
2. 
   Graduate Committee (English Department).
   
3. 
   CAH (Center for Arts and Humanities [Mellon Grant] Committee (responsible for organizing conferences, workshops, visiting artists and scholars, etc.).
   
4. 
   Undergraduate student advising.
   
5. 
   FAS Seminars: “Liberalism,” organized by Nadia Bou Ali AUB and Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago; summer 2015.
   
6. 
   External service: Professional meetings: “Transnational American Studies,” organized by American Studies Association of Turkey, 37th International American Studies Conference: Akdeniz University, Faculty of Letters, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Antalya, Turkey (Nov. 25-27, 2015).
   
7. 
   Community service: RWF: The Politics of Exploitation/The Spoilation of Politics; Film Screenings/Roundtable-Discussions at Dawawine; Spring/Summer 2016 (and AUB; Fall 2016).
   

Sirene Harb

1. 
   Conference Presentation: “Coordinates of the Text of Colonial Haunting: Ghosts in Arab American Poetry.” CASAR 6^th International Conference. January 2016. AUB, Beirut, Lebanon.
   
2. 
   Advisory committee member, Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL).
   
3. 
   Committee member, CASAR Executive Committee.
   
4. 
   Student advisor, English Department.
   
5. 
   Library liaison officer, English department.
   
6. 
   Advisory Board Member for Palimpsest: A Journal of Women, Gender and the Black International, published by SUNY Press.
   
7. 
   Project member, Digital Humanities Project “Their America: America in the eyes of the world.”
   
8. 
   Thesis Advisor for two students.
   
9. 
   Chair, Promotion committee, English department.
   
10. 
    Committee member, Gender and Women Studies Search Committee.
    

James Hodapp

1. 
   “An Encounter with Teju Cole: Writing Across Borders,” American University of Beirut, May 2016. Public interview with Teju Cole.
   
2. 
   Books in Motion Conference, American University of Beirut, May 2016.
   
3. 
   Presenting: “Surface Reading: Global Calculations in the Cover Art and Design of the Heinemann African Writer’s Series” and respondent for “Travel and Exchange” panel.
   
4. 
   Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Austin, TX, January 2016.
   
5. 
   Panelist for “The Center and Beyond: The Expansion of the Global English Department.”
   
6. 
   Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut, October 2015.
   
7. 
   Lecture: ‘Weapon of Choice: The African Short Story from Decolonization to Prize Culture.”
   
8. 
   Member of Organizing Committee of “Books in Motion” conference with Dr. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and Dr. Hala Auji held at AUB and Orient-Institut Beirut. May 5-7, 2016.
   

http://www.aub.edu.lb/Events/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?ItemId=2514

9. 
   Member of Organizing Committee for AUB Center for Arts and Humanities conference Do Not Resuscitate: Critique and the Untranslatability of History. May 12-14, 2016. http://www.aub.edu.lb/Events/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?ItemId=2381
   
10. 
    Secured and hosted Teju Cole as the AUB Center for Arts and Humanities writer in residence for Spring 2016, including a meeting with my graduate course.
    
11. 
    Secured and hosted Dr. Harry Garuba for a seminar and lecture entitled “Traveling into the World: African Writing and Modes of Entry into World Literature.” March 14-15, 2016.
    
12. 
    Curated “Unexpected Africa,” a short film series screening and discussion with AUB African Club and English Society. March 2, 2016.
    

Syrine Hout

1. “Whose War is it Anyway? Linguistic Games as Political Encoding in De Niro’s Game.” “Presumed Autonomy: Literature and Art in Theory and Practice.” University of Stockholm, Sweden, 10–13 May 2016.

2. Discussant on Panel 4 titled “Aesthetics and Politics” at the conference “Books in Motion: Exploring Concepts of Mobility in Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book”, AUB and Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), 5–7 May 2016.

3. “Edward Said’s Orientalism.” Civilization Sequence Lecture Series, April 2016, Nov. 2015.

4. “Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction in the Diaspora: Roots and Routes.” Guest Lecture on 28 April 2016 in “MEST 301: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies”, offered by the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES).

5. External member of Search Committee for Director of CASAR, Spring 2015–2016.

6. Member of Search Committee for the Edward Said Chair, Spring 2015-2016.

7. Acting Departmental Chair of Promotion Committee of Henri Franses, Fall-Spring 2015–2016.

8. Member of the Steering Committee of the Center for the Arts and Humanities, Summer 2015-Summer 2018.

9. Coordinator of CVSP 204 in the CVSP program, 2015-16.

10. Chair of Reappointment Committee of Robert Myers, Fall-Spring 2015-2016.

11. Chair of Promotion Committee of Sirène Harb, Fall-Spring 2015-2016.

12. Member of Promotion Committee of David Wrisley, Fall-Spring 2015-2016.

13. Acting Chair, July 2015.

14. Member of the Editorial Board of Middle Eastern Literatures, 2014-ongoing.

Roseanne Saad Khalaf

1. 
   Undergraduate Student Advising.
   
2. 
   I advise creative writing students not only on what courses to take but also on issues concerning their future careers, academic and professional plans.
   
3. 
   I have deep mentoring relationships with students that have grown out of my many years of teaching at AUB. I often find paid projects and jobs for them.
   
4. 
   I secured Sima Qunsol, my Nonfiction student (Fall 2015), a part-time editing position at GAIA-Heritage.
   
5. 
   I write numerous reference letters for students applying to graduate programs both locally and abroad. In 2015-2016 I wrote recommendations for the following five students: Leah Soweid, Shawkat Houri, Malak El Sabeh, Moussa Barada and Nadeem Balani.
   
6. 
   Scholarly Activities: with funding from the Center for Arts and Humanities, I invited, organized and conducted two informal talks by Hanan Al-Shaykh who shared ideas about her life and work with creative writing students. (Hanan Al-Shaykh: In Conversation with Creative Writing Students, March 7 and 8, 2016)
   
7. 
   After corresponding with Professor Fredrik Nyberg (University of Gothenburg), I organized and conducted an afternoon discussion between AUB creative writing students and faculty with eleven students and two faculty members from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Gothenburg. During the session we exchanged ideas and discussed the differences and similarities between the two programs. After the discussion, the group attended creative writing classes. (April 12, 2016).
   
8. 
   Member of Communication Skills Committee .
   
9. 
   Chair of Creative Writing Committee for Promotion Guidelines.
   
10. 
    Advisory Board of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal.
    
11. 
    Member of the Michel Chiha Essay Committee and a judge in the annual Essay Competition sponsored by the Foundation (I evaluate 20 student essays yearly and select the winner, 2012-2016).
    
12. 
    Editor of exhibition book titled, Weaving the Sea, a MEDNETA project financed by the European Union that brings together craftsmen and designers from across the Mediterranean to exhibit their work (November, 2015).
    

Tariq Mehmood Ali

1. 
   Serving on the AUB Senate.
   
2. 
   Served on the Library Committee and Publications committee.
   
3. 
   I am due to present a paper at Brighten University, UK on Poetry, Resistance and Illustration.
   
4. 
   I presented The House, a short story at Goldsmiths University, London, 2016.
   
5. 
   I was a guest speaker at the London Book Fair, 2016.
   
6. 
   I am on three Panels at the Bradford Literature Festival 2016, as well as on an additional panel on Islamophobia in Bradford.
   

Robert Myers

1. 
   Keynote Address and Workshop. “(Re) Visiting Wannous.” An Tonnelhuis Theater and Moussem Cultural Center. Antwerp, Belgium. May 2015.
   
2. 
   Presenter and Panelist. “Conversation on Contemporary Beirut Theatre.” LAU/NY and MEMEAC/CUNY. LAU New York Center. September 2015.
   
3. 
   Presenter and Panelist. “Conversation on Contemporary Beirut Theatre.” Islamic Institute, McGill University. Montreal, Canada. September 2015.
   
4. 
   “Theatre Initiative Proposal.” With Sahar Assaf, co-Author and co-Director of AUB’s new Theatre Initiative, a plan to place theatre at the center of the arts and humanities curriculum, based on discussions with Marvin Carlson (CUNY), Martin Puchner (Harvard), Derek Goldman (Georgetown) and others. February 2016.
   
5. 
   Panelist and Author. Discussions of drone warfare and Unmanned, a stage play by Robert Myers. Part of the Humanities Institute at Carnegie-Mellon’s annual theme of “War.” February 2016.
   

Jennifer Marie Nish

1. 
   “Revision as a Feminist Strategy: Composing Activist Publics on Social Networking Sites.” Presentation at Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX (April 2016).
   
2. 
   “Creation, Variation, and Collective Expression: Selfie Making as a Rhetorical Act.” Presentation at Feminisms and Rhetorics, Phoenix, AZ (October 2015)
   Co-chair of Feminist workshop at the 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Houston, Texas.
   
3. 
   Participant in roundtable discussion with Lakshmi Puri (Deputy Executive Director of UN Women) and local experts on gender at Carnegie Middle East Center. 4 March 2016.
   
4. 
   Associate Editor, Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2015-2016.
   
5. 
   Faculty Advisor, Women’s Rights Club.
   
6. 
   Faculty Advisor, Toastmasters Lebanon.
   
7. 
   Graduate Studies Committee, English Department.
   
8. 
   Search Committee, English Department (Rhetoric and Composition).
   
9. 
   Communication Skills Program Committee.
   
10. 
    Planning committee and submission reviewer for the International Conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
    
11. 
    University Committee on the English Language.
    
12. 
    Symposium on the Teaching of Writing in Lebanon, (co-facilitator). 
    

John Pill

1. 
   Prepared new test specifications for revision of AUB English Entrance Examination (AUB-EN) (fall 2015).
   
2. 
   Gave series of training workshops for item writers for test tasks for the revised AUB-EN (spring 2016).
   
3. 
   Peer-reviewed article for Language Testing and chapter for forthcoming Handbook of Migration and Language (Routledge).
   
4. 
   Reviewed abstracts submitted for the Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand conference 2016.
   
5. 
   Reviewed placement test for Migrant Community Center, Beirut.
   
6. 
   Reader for three MA thesis proposals.
   
7. 
   Member of job search committee for position in Linguistics (2015–16).
   
8. 
   Member of University Committee on English Language (2015–16).
   
9. 
   Chair of department of English assessment committee (2015–16) – prepared three-year summary reports and plans for the two undergraduate programs in the department.
   
10. 
    Co-ordinated program for visiting scholar, Dr. Catherine Elder, University of Melbourne (April 2016).
    
11. 
    Presented paper at 6th international conference on Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, American University of Beirut (February 2016).
    
12. 
    Presenting paper at 38th annual Language Testing Research Colloquium, Palermo, Italy (June 2016).
    

Kassim Shaaban
1. Director, CELRT.

2. Chair, English Department Program Review Committee.

3. Associate Editor, Al-Abhath.

4. Member, Editorial Board, Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT).

5. Reviewer of articles for the journals Language, Culture and Curriculum; Al-Abhath;

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; AJELT, Arab Journal of Humanities.

6. Chair, Search Committee for English language Position and Member for the Translation Position Search Committee.

7. Member of a tripartite committee to revise the AUB-EN with John Pill (Chair) and Karma El-Hassan.

Samhita Sunya

1. Middle East Studies Caucus co-convener and presenter: “Joint Ventures: Middle-Eastern Cine-Media in Co-Production, Past and Present,” for Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference (March 2016).

2. Curator: “Urban Intimacies” film series at AUB, featuring regional premieres of two films (Tangerine and Aligarh).
Adam John Waterman

1. 
   Presentation at “Fragments of Empire after the American Century,” conference
   
2. 
   of the Center for American Studies and Research, AUB.
   
3. 
   Co-organizer, “Fragments of Empire after the American Century,” conference
   
4. 
   of the Center for American Studies and Research, AUB.
   
5. 
   Participant, 2016, Triannual meeting of the Prince Alwaleed Centers for
   
6. 
   American Studies and Islamic Studies, Cambridge, UK.
   
7. 
   Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, AUB: In this capacity I
   

served as academic adviser to all incoming and current graduate students in English Literature, chaired the regular meetings of the Department Graduate Committee, and spearheaded efforts at curricular reform in the Department.

8. 
   Member, FAS Graduate Committee
   
9. 
   Member, Search Committee, assistant professor of American Studies, CASAR
   
10. 
    Member, Search Committee, Edward W. Said Chair, CASAR
    
11. 
    Member, Search Committee, Director of CASAR
    

David Wrisley

1. 
   “Exploring Modes of Authorship in Caxton: Rolling Delta for Early English Printed Texts” for “Digital Textual Studies” symposium, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, June 2016.
   
2. 
   With Randa El Khatib, Julia El Zini, Shady ElBassuoni, and Mohammad Jaber, TopoText 2.0: Prototyping Modes of Interactive Mapping and Social Knowledge Creation" (with Randa El Khatib, Julia El Zini,), “Innovative Interrogations: Modelling, Prototyping and Making, Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Conference @ DHSI 2016,” Victoria, BC, 10-11 June 2016.
   
3. 
   With Rayane Fayed,  “Digital Humanities Project-Based Faculty Learning Communities: From the Local to the Consortial,” at AMICAL annual conference “Libraries and Digital Initiatives,” American University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 12-14 May 2016.
   
4. 
   “Locative Devices and Web Mapping in the Digital Humanities” at AMICAL annual conference “Libraries and Digital Initiatives,” American University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 12-14 May 2016.
   
5. 
   “Beirut publishes… / وبيروت تطبع : Digital Spatio-Temporal Narratives of the Lebanese Publishing Industry (1920-present),” to be presented at Books in Motion Conference, American University of Beirut, Beirut, May 2016.
   
6. 
   “Machaut, Mézières and al-Nuwayri al-Iskandarani: ‘Rapport de Fait’ or Interliterary Mediterranean System?” Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, “History and Society during the Mamluk Era (1250- 1517),” University of Bonn, Germany, 10 August 2015.
   
7. 
   “Maps and Networks in Medieval Studies,” European Summer University Culture and Technology, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 5 August 2015.
   
8. 
   With Laura Morreale and Abigail Sargent, “Visual Exploration of Medieval Textual Histories: the Case of the French of Italy,”  Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22-24 July 2015.
   
9. 
   With Earl Jeffrey Richards and Liliane Dulac, “Author! Author! Christine de Pizan’s Styles : Did She Have a Moi prosaique Distinct from Her Moi Lyrique ? The Comparative Insights of a Tradition Stylistic/Thematic and a Stylometric Analysis of Christine’s Writings,” IXe Colloque International Christine de Pizan, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 7-11 July 2015.
   

Amy Alice Zenger

1. 
   “Using core terms to localize our practices. Conference of the Middle East North Africa Writing Center Alliance. April 2016, Muscat.
   
2. 
   Executive Board Member, Middle East North Africa Writing Center Alliance.
   
3. 
   “Designing writing across difference: taking a visual perspective.” Conference of International Writing Across the Curriculum, June 2016, Ann Arbor.
    
   
1. 
   PUBLICATIONS
   
   
   

Ira James Allen
1. “Symposium: Barack Obama’s Significance for Rhetoric and Composition,” Edited by Ira Allen and Elizabeth Flynn,* CCC 67(3), p. 465-497.

2. “On Obama’s Eloquence as a Disciplinary Dilemma,” CCC 67(3), p. 489-495.

3. “Troubled Freedom, Rhetorical Personhood, and Democracy’s Ongoing Constitution,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 18(2), p. 195-215.

4. “Dialectical and Comic Reflections: On Translating Benjamin’s Radio Work,” with Anita Chari, Theory & Event 18(3) (July 2015).

5. “True Stories About Dogs,” with Anita Chari,* and Robert Ryder,* multimodal (text + sound + video) translation of Walter Benjamin, “Wahre Geschichten von Hunden,” Theory & Event 18(3) (July 2015); (translation.)
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
1. “The Arabic Novel between Aesthetic Concerns and the Causes of Man: Commitment in Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and ‘Abd al-Rahman Munif,” in Commitment and Beyond: Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s, eds. Friederike Pannewick and Georges Khalil. Literatures in Context, vol. 41. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2015, 143-55.

2. Entry on “Etel Adnan” in Kritisches Lexikon fremdsprachiger Gegenwartsliteratur (KLfG), http://www.nachschlage.net/search/query?query.id=query-18.

3. Entries on Arab artists (Shakir Hassan Al Said, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Youssef Abdelke) for Encyclopaedia of Modernism ed. Nada Shabout et al., London: Routledge, https://www.rem.routledge.com.

4. Entries on Arab artists (Shakir Hassan Al Said, Issam El Said, Etel Adnan) for the Encyclopaedia of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar,

http://www.encyclopedia.mathaf.org.

5. 
   Review of We are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War, by Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, vol. 8 (2015): 151–53.
   

Doyle Avant

1. Co-wrote, with Anna De Luna, and designed sound and video for My Arab Fall which premiered 25 July 2015 at Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas.

2. Possible staging on 24 May of The Envy of Water – three solo pieces (TBA).
David Currell
Review of Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity, by Colin Burrow. Shakespeare Newsletter  64.3 (2015): 112-15.
Joshua Gonsalves
“Reading Race and ‘Rita’ in The Lady from Shanghai: Decrypting the Mogul, the Star and the Auteur, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, forthcoming Summer 2016 (contract granted in April 2016; final copy to be submitted by May 18, 2016).



Sirene Harb

With Hind El Hajj, “Space, Mobility, and Agency in Palestinian American Poetry.” Arab Studies Quarterly 37.3 (2015): 224-243.

With Hind el Hajj, “Narrating Belonging and Community: History, Travel, and Personal Agency in Palestinian American Poetry.” Mashriq & Mahjar 3.2 (2016): 62-87. http://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/article/view/83/144

James Hodapp
1. “The Postcolonial Joe Sacco.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 6:4 (December 2015): 319-330.

2. “Imagining Unmediated Early Swahili Narratives in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise.” English in Africa 42:2 (September 2015): 89-107.

3. “Thomas Mofolo,” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, eds. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwartz. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. pp. 1095-7.

4. “The Empire Writes Back,” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, eds. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwartz. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, pp. 1570-2.

Syrine Hout

1. “Recounting Memories of Resistance in 33 Days.” Arab Studies Quarterly 38.2 (Spring 2016): 481-99.

2. “What is Out There to Resist? Critical Terrains and Clashing Creeds in Under the Bombs.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 9.1 (2016): 28–48.

3. “Sex and Love as Routes for Border Crossing and Homing Desire in Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Published online 16 Feb. 2016. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2016.1141310.

4. Review of The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora: Representations of Place and National Identity, by Jumana Bayeh. International Journal of Middle East Studies 47.4 (November 2015): 861-63.

Roseanne Saad Khalaf

1. 
   “Lebanese Youth Narratives: A Bleak Post-War Landscape” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 44:1 (2014): 97-116.
   
2. 
   “Beirut: Writing the City” A Publishing Gallery, International Writing Program: University of Iowa; 2014 http://iwp.uiowa.edu/publishing-gallery/beirutwriting-the-city
   
3. 
   “Breaking the Silence: What AUB Students Really Think About Sex.” In Sexuality in the Arab World, eds. Samir Khalaf and John Gangon, London: Saqi (Arabic Translation), 2015.
   
4. 
   “Living with Dissonance: AUB Women Students Speak Out About Sex,” Al-Raida, 118: 43-51 (Republished as a Double Issue (118–119); 2015.
   
   
   

Tariq Mehmood Ali

1. “You Stink!,” The Satirist, US, 2015.

2. “Any Job for Bob,” The Satirist, US, 2015.

3. “The House,” Inscribe, People Tree Press, UK, 2015.

4. “Mined Memories,” Out of Bounds, as an online digital resource for schools, in UK (Newcastle University, 2016).

5. “The Language of The Gun” (2016).

6. “Plotistan,” Kashmirwalla.com (2016).

Robert Myers

1. 
   Producer and translator, The Dictator. A stage play by ‘Issam Mahfouz. Produced at the Between the Seas Festival, New York, NY. September 2015.
   
2. 
   Unmanned. Staged Reading of play. Humanities Institute. Carnegie-Mellon University. February 2016.
   
3. 
   Unmanned. Production of play. Metta Theatre, Taos, New Mexico. March 2016.
   
4. 
   Unmanned. Production of play. Teatro Paraguas, Santa Fe, New Mexico. March 2016.
   
   
   

Jennifer Marie Nish

“The Pixel Project: Spreading Genres in Opposition to Violence against Women.” Genre and the Performance of Publics, eds. Mary Jo Reiff and Anis Bawarshi. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2016.

John Pill

1. 
   “Drawing on indigenous criteria for more authentic assessment in a specific-purpose language test: Health professionals interacting with patients.” Language Testing, 33(2016): 175–193.
   
2. 
   With S O’Hagan and Y. Zhang, Y. “Extending the scope of speaking assessment criteria in a specific-purpose language test: Operationalizing a health professional perspective. Language Testing, 33(2016): 195–216.
   
3. 
   With T. McNamara, “How much is enough? Involving occupational experts in setting standards on a specific-purpose language test for health professionals.” Language Testing, 33(2016): 217–234.
   
4. 
   With S. Macqueen and U. Knoch, “Language test as boundary object: Perspectives from test users in the healthcare domain. Language Testing, 33(2016), 271-288.
   
5. 
   With U. Knoch, et al. Transitioning from university to the workplace: Stakeholder perceptions of academic and professional writing demands. (37 pp.). IELTS Research Reports Online Series, 2016/1. IELTS Partners – British Council, Cambridge English Language Assessment and IDP: IELTS Australia. http://www.ielts.org/~/media/research-reports/ielts_online_rr_2016-1.ashx
   

Kassim Shaaban

1. “Language and religion in the construction of the Lebanese identity,” in M. Shepard-Wong & A. Mahboob, eds., Spirituality and language teaching: Religious explorations of teacher identity, pedagogy, context, and content. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

2. “The ongoing rivalry between English and French in Lebanon,” in A. Gebril, ed., Multilingualism in the Middle East. John Benjamin (in press).


Samhita Sunya
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