Faculty
| Faculty Members | Research Interests |
1. | Professor, English Literature 0118050800 Office 123, Fl. 3, Bldg. 1 | Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall literary writings, Victorian Poetry, Postcolonial Critical theory, & Charlotte Bronte as a poet and novelist |
2. | Prof. Saad Abdulrahman Albazei Professor Emeritus, English Literature | English literature & comparative literature |
3. | Prof. Abdullah Saad Abdullah Al-Dobaian Professor, Theoretical Linguistics 0114675267 Office 63AB | Semitic morphology and syntax, syntax-morphology interface, syntax-semantics interface |
4. | Associate Professor, Theoretical Linguistics 0114675437 Office 1A10 | Child language acquisition, accented speech, morphosyntax development and constraints |
5. | Associate Professor, Theoretical & Applied Linguistics 0114675435 Office 1A08 | Systemic functional linguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, appraisal, academic literacies, metadiscourse, reading comprehension research, assessment and evaluation tools for ESL/EFL students, and the use of Web 2.0 technology in higher education
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6. | Associate Professor, English Literature 0118051911 Office 111 | Exploring the epistemological bias in postcolonial theory, coloniality in world reading strategies and role of modernity/coloniality in the rise of modern Arabic literary criticism |
7. | Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118056098 Office 88 | Pragmatics: Speech Acts Sociolinguistics: Code-switching & language maintenance |
8. | Dr. Saleh Saeed Mubarak Batais Associate Professor, Theoretical Linguistics 0114675430 Office 1A05 | Theoretical phonology, loanword phonology, language contact, language variation & lexical borrowing |
9. | Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Almoaily Associate Professor, ِApplied Linguistics 0114675436 Office 9AA | Pidgin and creole languages, language politeness, language policy and planning, linguistic landscapes, language variation |
10. | Dr. Madhawy Abdulaziz Almeshaal Assistant Professor, English Literature 0118051213 Office 130 | Theatre studies, psychoanalysis theories and drama, gender studies and drama, language/communication and theatre |
11. | Assistant Professor, English Literature 0114675240 Office AB36 | Utopian science, fiction & fantasy literature, Renaissance fiction, &19th century novel popular culture & film, Imperial literature, travel literature, & composition studies |
12. | Assistant Professor, Theoretical Linguistics 0114675215 Office 1B02 | Prosody, linguistic interface, syntax, semantics, Saudi dialects, informatics structure, & pragmatics |
13. | Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics 0114675433 Office 1A06 | Language Assessment, Language Policy & Planning, Language Acquisition, Lexicography |
14. | Dr. Fayez Abdulmajeed AlGhamdi Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0114675263 Office AB59 | Rhetorical theory and criticism, comparative rhetoric, Arab-American literature, postcolonial theory |
15. | Assistant Professor, Theoretical Linguistics 0114675240 Office AB36 | Theoretical Linguistics |
16. | Assistant Professor, Theoretical Linguistics 0114675262 Office 1B58 | Language acquisition, material design & implementation, classroom interaction, linguistics |
17. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118058179 Office 99 | Pragmatics, pragmatic comprehension and speech acts |
18. | Dr. Shaikah Ahmed Mohammed Al Madkhali Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118057837 Office 104 | Applied linguistics, second language acquisition, & sociolinguistics |
19. | Dr. Maimoonah Khalil Al Khalil Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118050838 Office 110 | |
20. | Dr. Laila Abdulrahman Hamad Alekrish Assistant Professor, English Literature 0118050445 Office 89 | Narratology, African-American literature, English and American novel, & modern literature |
21. | Dr. Kesavan Vadakalur Elumalai Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0114675542 Office AA87 | LRSW applied linguistics, productive language teaching, language acquisition, course switching and core mixing, & communication skills |
22. | Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Criticism & Comparative Literature 0114675544 Office AA89 | Saudi Literature, American Literature, Pop-Culture , Comparative Literature |
23. | Dr. Abdulrahman Faisal Abu Shal Assistant Professor, The American Novel and Postwar Literature | Cultural and Political Theories, Stylistics, Semiotics |
24. | Assistant Professor, English Literature Office 121 | Postcolonial studies & nationalist feminism |
25. | Assistant Professor, English Literature Office 125 | Transatlantic studies, modernist literature and literary theory, reception studies, Antebellum America, visual dialectics of modernity, & Edgar Allan Poe (influence and reputation) |
26. | Assistant Professor, English Literature 0114675543 Office AA88 | Literary Criticism, Postmodernism, American Literature, Arab American Literature, Saudi Literature in English, & Comparative Literature |
27. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0114675434 Office 7AA | Use of Technology (ICT,CALL) in EFL teaching, teacher training and development (continuous personal development), theorising technology use, evaluation and development of ICT CPD, Mobile learning, distance learning and evaluation |
28. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118058531 Office 93 | Exploring L1 Arabic speakers’ acquisition of English grammatical structures within generative theory by identifying the features in L1 & L2 and the role of L1 transfer and input, integrating findings from linguistic theory into language pedagogy, investigating the effect of explicit and implicit types of input on language acquisition through experimental classroom research, & exploring gender and identity in linguistic discourse |
29. | Assistant Professor, English Literature 0118051969 Office 122 | Postcolonial Feminism |
30. | Assistant Professor, English Literature Office 91 | Poetry, Systemic Functional Linguistics, & African American Poetry |
31. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118050830 Office 112 | Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Classroom Research Studies |
32. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118056417 Office 100 | Sociolinguistics, Course Evaluation, TESOL |
33. | Assistant Professor. English Literature and Linguistics Office 97 | Cognitive Poetics, Literary Linguistics, Reader Response, Dystopia |
34. | Assistant Professor, English Literature Office 117 | Modernism, Postcolonial and Marxist Theories, 20th Century Fiction, Aesthetics, Globalization, Oil Fiction |
35. | Assistant Professor, English Literature 0114675065 Office AB3 | World Literature, Narrative Theory, Translation Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Anglophone Arab Literature in Diaspora, and Comparative Literature |
36. | Dr. Fahda Abdulmuhsen Alsuwailim Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics Office 95 | Language and Society, Media and Communication, CMDA |
37. | Assistant Professor, English Literature 0118051557 Office 130 | Arab American Fiction, Ethnic American Literature, the Graphic Novel, Popular Culture |
38. | Assistant Professor, English Literature 0118051487 Office 103 | Modernism with expertise in Samuel Beckett and visual analysis in literary studies; genetic manuscript studies; political climate in the 1930s; and censorship. Other research interests fall under: comparative literature, cultural theory, and art history |
39. | Assistant Professor, English Literature Office 95 AA | Literary Criticism and its theories and postcolonial literature |
40. | Assistant Professor, Theoretical Linguistics Office AB62 | Arabic phonetics and phonology, L2 phonology/ orthography interface and statistical learning |
41. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics | Theoretical phonology, loanword phonology, language contact, language variation & lexical borrowing |
42. | Assistant Professor, English Literature | Postcolonialism and Feminism |
43. | Assistant Professor, Linguistics | |
44. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118055865 | |
45. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics | |
46. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics | |
47. | Assistant Professor, English Literature 0118055746 Office 87 | Elizabethan drama and theatre, Anglo-Muslim relations during the Early Modern Period |
48. | Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics 0118056675 Office 113 |
Lecturers & Teaching Assistants | ||
Linguistics | ||
Lecturer 0118051130 Office 100 | Lecturer Office | Lecturer Office |
Lecturer 0118050434 Office 93 | Lecturer 0118050863 Office 86 | Lecturer 0118050195 Office 102 |
TA Office | TA Office 96 | TA 0118052144 Office 106
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TA Office | TA 0118056616 Office 108 | TA 0118058555 Office 96 |
TA 0118055849 Office 94 | TA 0118056119 Office 114 | TA 0118052165 Office 121 |
Lama AlSuleiman TA Office 126 | TA Office 126 | TA
Office 124 |
Literature | ||
Lecturer Office 98 | Lecturer 0118050620 Office 93 | Lecturer Office 126 |
Lecturer 0118050161 Office 90 | Lecturer Office | Lecturer Office 92 |
Lecturer 0118055056 Office 93 | TA Office | TA Office 115 |
TA 0118052440 Office 119 | TA Office | TA Office 105 |
TA Office 117 |
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