introduction/brief CV
My current interests are in reader-response based studies, in which the literary text is considered as a discourse, focusing on Saudi Literature.
I hope to instill in my students a sense of integrity, responsibility, honesty and curiosity for the world around them.
There is always a lesson to be found in every corner of the world.
areas of expertise
Corpus stylistics, discourse analysis, cognitive poetics, literary linguistics.
publications
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This study considers the influence of translated titles on reader interpretation by comparing English and Arabic Goodreads reviews of Wolves of the Crescent Moon.
This paper analyses Montresor’s unreliable narration in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” portraying him as a manipulative and remorseless storyteller who exerts precise control over…
courses
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This course is an introductory course to literature, specifically, the three main genres: fiction (short stories), poetry, and drama. Students are introduced to the literary elements of each genre…
The course is mainly designed for BA, graduating seniors but also caters to the needs of literature, language, and writing students. It will focus on diverse realizations of linguistics in both…
This is mainly a writing course designed for students at their beginning level to be able to write various types of sentences correctly and in different verb tenses. It is a pre-requisite to the…