Department of English
 
Language and Literature 

Arnold, Lisa Assistant Professor
Email: la66@aub.edu.lb
- writing pedagogy; history of composition studies; historiography; history of rhetoric; feminist literary theory; creative writing; nonfiction writing; formation of academic disciplines and disciplinarity; contingent faculty
Avant, Doyle Rexford Instructor (Creative Writing)
Email: da55@aub.edu.lb

 
Choueiri, Lina Associate Professor
Email: lc01@aub.edu.lb

- syntax of Arabic dialects
Currell, David Assistant Professor
Email: dc13@aub.edu.lb

- early modern literature and culture; Shakespeare; Tudor and Stuart drama; Milton; 17th-century literature; epic, satire, and genre theory; classical studies
Donabédian-Demopoulos, Anaïd  Visiting Professor 
Email: adonabedian@inalco.fr

-descriptive and typological linguistics; methods in linguistic research (e.g. modeling of language contact, linguistic corpora, field methods); issues of linguistic norms and variation, especially in schools and in relation to language endangerment
Dennison, Michael James Assistant Professor
Email: md29@aub.edu.lb

- creative writing: poetry; English literature: twentieth-century American poetry (1922-1968); comparative literature: literature of the supernatural (English, French, and Italian).
Gonsalves, Joshua D. Assistant Professor
Email: jodago@aub.edu.lb

- romantic; long 18th-Century and 19th-Century British poetry, literature, and culture; continental philosophy, theory, and literary criticism; psychoanalysis; geopolitics and the history/theory of war; (pre-)cinema Studies; animal studies.
Harb, Sirene Associate Professor
Email: sh03@aub.edu.lb

- comparative Literature (Contemporary American and Postcolonial Literatures ); Comparative Ethnic Studies (Arab-American and African-American Studies); Gender Studies and Race Theory
Hartwiger, Alexander Assistant Professor
Email: ah123@aub.edu.lb

- contemporary world literature, postcolonial theory and literature; cosmopolitanism; alterity;  and critical pedagogy
Hout, Syrine C. Associate Professor
Email: sh06@aub.edu.lb

- contemporary Anglophone Lebanese fiction and non-fiction, travel literature/theory, orientalist discourse.
Khoury, Nicole Assistant Professor
Email: nk54@aub.edu.lb

- rhetorical theory and criticism, non-Western rhetorics, transnational gender and women's movements, Middle Eastern (Islamic, Arab, and Lebanese) feminist rhetorics, feminist historiography, composition theory, writing pedagogy
Mehmood Ali, Tariq Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: ta36@aub.edu.lb

- fiction writing; South Asian history, politics and literature; Black British history politics and literature;  progressive writers;  anti-racism;  anti-imperialism; radical documentary film;  unwritten languages; folklore and storytelling
Myers, Robert Professor
Email: rm33@aub.edu.lb
- playwriting; creative writing; 20th-century American literature and theatre; Latin American literature; modern world literature and theatre; 20th-century British and Irish theatre; Brazilian arts and culture; translation; orientalism in the arts
Nassar, Christopher Associate Professor
Email: cn01@aub.edu.lb

- Oscar Wilde, decadence, classical literature (Homer, Virgil, Herodotus, Sophocles)
Saad Khalaf, Roseanne Associate Professor
Email: rk04@aub.edu.lb

- creative writing: nonfiction (life narratives, youth narratives, memoirs); fiction; contemporary Lebanese and Anglophone Lebanese fiction and nonfiction, children's literature, editing
Sabbagh, Omar Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: os17@aub.edu.lb

- modernism (esp. James, Conrad, Ford); philosophy/critical theory and literature; psychoanalysis and literature; Christianity and literature; poetry
Shaaban, Kassim A. Professor
Email: shaaban@aub.edu.lb

- language policies; attitudes and motivation; language and identity; cooperative learning
Schwartz, John Pedro Assistant Professor
Email: js34@aub.edu.lb

- modernism, museums, collecting practices, transatlantic avant-garde, Joyce, Borges
Vermy, Michael Assistant Professor
Email: av03@aub.edu.lb
- language and power; language attitudes; multi-lingualism; sociolinguistics: language choice, regional and social variation; anthropological linguistics: language ideologies, language and identity, language and gender; Romance Linguistics: Spanish, French and Portuguese linguistics (including dialectology)
Waterman, Adam J. Assistant Professor
Email: aw06@aub.edu.lb

- early American literature and culture; race, capitalism, and empire; the representation of Islam in American literature; indigeneity and nationality; historiography as ritual in American culture
Wrisley, David J. Associate Professor/ Chair
Email: dw04@aub.edu.lb

- comparative medieval literatures (European and Arabic), translation, historical writing, medieval love theory, dream vision, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities
Zenger, Amy A. Associate Professor
Email: az07@aub.edu.lb
- composition theory and practice; critical race theory; relationships between visual and verbal texts; popular culture and literacy

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