About Me
Dean of Student Affairs
American University of Kuwait
2015-Present
Assistant Professor of English
American University of Kuwait
2014-Present
Assistant Professor of English Literature
Kuwait University
2000-2011
English Teacher
Ministry of Education
1989-1995
Ph. D. English Literature
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA
1997-2000
Doctoral Dissertation: Feminist Postmodern Disruption of the Patriarchal System of Binary Oppositions: Praxis in Four Phases.
M.A. English Literature
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA
1996-1997
B.A. English
Kuwait University
1984-1989
- Margaret Atwood’s Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity (Conference Presentation: Femininities, Masculinities and the Posthuman, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2015)
- “Do you surprise? Do you shock? Do you have a choice?”: Assuming the Feminine Role: Subverting the patriarchal System (Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 40.5 (July 2011): 620-44)
- L’écriture Féminine in the Hands of Men: Cunningham Rewrites Woolf (Conference Presentation: SW/TX: Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, USA, February 2006)
- Violence as Proof of Existence: Joyce Carol Oates and the Construction of Shelley the Schizoid (The American Journal of Psychoanalysis 65.2 (June 2005): 189-96)
- Finding her Voice. A psychoanalytical Reading of Muzoon: Desert Rose, a Novel by Fauzia S. AlSalem, A Writer from Kuwait (2005)
- “Wrongs to Be Righted”: A Study of Frances E. W. Harper’s Feminist Writings (Conference Presentation: Hawaii International Conference, Hawaii, USA, August 2004)
- August Wilson Reconstructs Black History (Griot: Official Journal on Afro-American Studies 23.1 (Spring 2004): 73-80)
- “One Foot in Either Door”: Japanese-Americans and the Constructions of Identity in Julia Shigekuni’s A Bridge Between Us (Conference Presentation: MELUS 2000, New Orleans, USA, March 2000)
- Suicide and Insanity in Su Tong’s Raise the Red Lantern and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (Conference Presentation: EGO Conference, Indiana, PA, USA, March 1999)
- Robin’s Silence in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood (Conference Presentation: EGO Conference, Indiana, PA, March March 1998)
- “their light step upon the earth”: Alice Walker and the Native American Ecofeminist (Conference Presentation: Conference Celebrating African Americans, Indiana, PA, USA, February 1998)
Feminist Postmodern Disruption of the Patriarchal System of Binary Oppositions: Praxis in Four Phases