CURRENT POSITION

• • Associate Professor (2024-Present)

Comparative Literature and Critical Theory

Department of English

King Saud University, Riyadh

• • KSU Board of Assessors (BOA) (2017- Present)

Deanship of Development and Quality

King Saud University

            EDUCATION

• • Doctor of Philosophy, Comparative Lit & Critical Theory

Middle Tennessee State University 2015

Dissertation title: Inscribing the Nation and Reforming Its Margins: A Comparative Study of 19th Century American and 20th Century and Contemporary Saudi Literatures

• • Master of Arts, English Literature

Creighton University 2010

• • Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature

King Saud University 2005

              PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

• • PMP Certified
  • ETEC-NCAAA Academic Assessor 

            EXPERIENCE

• •  (2016-2024) Assistant Professor, Department of English, King Saud University, Riyadh
  •  (2018 -2022) Head of the Project Management Unit, College of Arts, King Saud University
  • (2017 - 2018) Chair of the Development Unit, College of Arts, King Saud University.
  • (2016-2018) Head of the Quality and Accreditation Assurance Unit, Department of English Language and Literature, King Saud University. 
  •  (2009-2015) On a Scholarship from King Saud University to the United States for an M.A and Ph.D in English Literature.
  • (2008- 2009) A lecturer at King Saud University, Department of English language and literature.
  • (2005-2008) an English language instructor at The Saudi Electricity Company in Riyadh.

              COMMITTEES

• • The Committee of Establishing an MA program in Comparative Literature.
  • The Committee of Establishing the Saudi Association of Comparative Literature
  • The Committee of Revising the Ph.D. program in English Literature.
  • The Committee of Quality Assurance
  • The Committee of Graduate Studies in Literature
  • Committee of Students’ Affairs

               PUBLICATIONS:

• • Books:
  • Writers and Nations: The Case of American and Saudi Literatures. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
  • Articles:
  • "The Transparent Eyeball of the Nation: Walt Whitman’s Imagined Nation in “Song of Myself”." Acta Poética, vol 42, no. 2, 2021, pp. 129-145.
  • “Neocolonizing The Nation: American Pop Culture and Saudi Television.” Forum for World Literature Studies, vol 13, no. 4, 2021, pp. 714-723.
  • "Leaking Letters: The Case of Harriot’s Report and Six Letters of Englishmen." Cogent Arts & Humanities, vol. 9, no. 1, 10 June 2022. Taylor & Francis.
  • “Revisiting Fanon’s Reading of National Consciousness through Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun.” Cahiers d'études africaines, vol LXIV, no. 253, March 2024.

            CONFERENCES

• • (CCCC) Conference on College Composition and Communication:

“Rhetoric and Persuasion: A Continuum of Danger,” March 2010.

"Found in This Language!" April 2011

• • (ALA) American Literature Association:

“Williams and Achim Eckert: Water’s Deformity of the Beauty of Language in Paterson III,” May 2010.

• • Africa in World Politics:

"Askar1s 'Consciousness' of Identity and Nationality", March 2011.

• • (SCMLA) South Central Modern Language Association:

"Women and the Nation: A Comparative Study of Kate Chopin's The Awakening and, Raja Alem's Sanctuary," November 2015

            MAJOR TRAINING & WORKSHOPS

• • ETEC-NCAAA Academic Assessor  
  • Professional Project Management “PMP”
  • KSU Board of Assessors (BOA)
  • Intensive Course: (May-July 2006) SAP HR––Train the Trainer program
  • Team Based Learning “TBL”.
  • Creative Thinking
  • Self-Management
  • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
  • Neuro Linguistics Programming "NLP"
  • Feedback, A Tool for Better Learning
  •  Program Self Study
  • Assessing PLOs and CLOs.
  • Key Performance Indicators and Benchmarking
  • Safe and Comfort Learning Environment 
  • Books: Writing and Publishing
  • Student Centered Learning
  • Applications of Mobile Learning
  • Learning Theories
  • Effective College Teaching

          COURSES TAUGHT

• • Comparative Literature (Graduate Course)
  • Early American Literature (Graduate Course)
  • American Literature from 1865 to the present (Graduate Course)
  • Topics in Literature: Survey of Saudi Literature (Graduate Course)
  • Literary Criticism 
  • Modern Critical Theory
  • World Literature
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Composition

            LANGUAGES:

• • Arabic: (Native) ---  English: (Fluent)  ----  Spanish (Beginner)