KIFAH MOH'D KHAIR ALI ALUMARI

Kifah (Moh'd Khair) Ali Al Omari	Professor
American Literature	English Literature
Faculty of Arts	Department of English Language and Literature
k.m.alumari@hu.edu.jo
ORCID ID : 342167194
Office No. : 4615	EXT : 3011

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Ph.D.	University of Texas at Arlington	The United States of America,2006
Master	University of Jordan	Jordan,1995
Bachelor	University of Jordan	Jordan,1991

 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature
Detective Friction
Travel Literature
Literary Theory and Criticism
Postmodern Cultural Studies

 1-	"Scientific vs. Sentimental Narrative in the Travels of William Bartram and Mungo Park." IJAES. Vol. 11, 2010.

2-	"The American Literary Canon: Impervious to Change?" International Forum of Teaching and Studies. Vol. 7, No. 2, 2011.

3-	"Bridges or Walls? A Study of the Hashemite University English Department Undergraduate Students' Responses to Anglo-American Literature." Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. Vol. 4, No. 4, (Summer), 2011.

4-	"A Critique of Jabra's Arabic Translation of Shakespeare's The Tempest." Canadian Social Sciences. Vol. 7, No. 6, 2011.

5-	"The Classical Origins of Detective Fiction: Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Ross Macdonald's The Goodbye Look." Cross Cultural Communication. Vol.7, No. 3, 2011

6-	"Pre-Lapsarian Man: An Ontological Reading of Shakespeare's Sonnet 129." International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences." Vol. 1, No. 12, 2011. Pp.58-63.

7-	"Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into American Literature Classes." Cross Cultural Communication. Vol.8, No. 2, 2012.

8-	"Genre, Blues, and (Mis) Education in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Cross Cultural Communication. Vol.8, No. 2, 2012.

 9-"How Professors of American Literature Teach Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Fall   of the House of Usher" to Undergraduate English Majors at Arab Universities: The Hashemite University, Jordan as an Example." Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013.

               10- Language Stratification: A Critical Reading of Margaret Atwood’s 		            The Penelopiad according to Mikhail Bakhtin’s Concept of “Heteroglossia”  	          Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 12, December, 2014.

 Hala Abdul-Razzaq Juma’a. The Patterned Development of Shakespeare’s Ego		 according to the Psychoanalytic Theories of Freud, Lacan and Kreisteva: The	 Merchant of Venice and some other Plays as a Model. Defended successfully 	on January 28, 2014 in The Department of English Language and Literature,	 The Hashemite University, Jordan.

Rana Abdul-Rahim Basheet Al- Zawahreh. Trauma and Existential Coices: Reading	 Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, Albert Camus’ The Stranger and Franz 	Kafka’s “The Judgment.” Defended successfully 	on August 18, 2016 in 	The Department of English Language and Literature, The Hashemite		 University, Jordan.

 -	APETAU (Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities), 2007 till now
-	Arab Society of English Language Studies (Morocco) since 2015

 ?	Teacher of English/ Ministry of Education-Jordan/ February 14, 1993-July 15, 1995.
?	Member of Educational Qualification Programs/ Directorate of Qualifications-   MOE/ July 16- September 3, 1995.
?	Co-ordinator for Qualifications programs and representative of MOE in The University of Jordan/ September4, 1995- October 3, 1998.
?	Member of Qualification programs- MOE/ October 4, 1998- June 28, 2000.
?	Member of Jordan National Commission for UNESCO/ June 29, 2000-September 30, 2001.
?	English part-time lecturer- Language Center- The University of Jordan/ 1999-2001.
?	English part-time lecturer- Neilein University of Sudan/ 1999-2001.
?	Teaching Assistant- Hashemite University- English Department/ September 30, 2001- August 12, 2003.
?	Graduate Teaching Assistant- University of Texas at Arlington- Texas- USA/ 
?	September 1, 2004- January 15, 2007.
?	Part-time Lecturer- Zarqa Private University- English Department/ Feb. 18th, 2007 – June 30th, 2007
?	Assistant Professor of English- The Hashemite University- English Department/ February 11, 2007 till now
?	Chairman of the Department of English Language and Literature/ September 16, 2007 – September 6th, 2008.
?	Assistant Professor of English- Hashemite University- English Department/ September 7th, 2008 –Nov. 6th, 2015.
?	Director/ Office of International Relations – The Hashemite University/ January 3rd, 2011- June 1st, 2013.
?	Associate Professor of English – Hashemite University, Department of English, Jordan. June 8h, 2015 till now.
?	Sabbatical leave at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the academic year 2016/2017

 ?	Communication Skills (The University of Jordan)
?	English 99, 101, and 102 (The Hashemite University)
?	An Introduction to Literature (The Hashemite University and Nilein University)
?	Expository Writing (The University of Texas at Arlington)
?	Critical Thinking and Argumentation (The University of Texas at Arlington)
Courses taught in The Hashemite University
?	TOEFL Preparation (for MA students)
?	An Introduction to the Novel
?	Listening Comprehension and Conversation.
?	Writing I 
?	Advanced Writing
?	Research Writing
?	Advanced Reading
?	World Literature
?	French Literature
?	Latin American Literature
?	Globalization of Culture
?	An Introduction to Literature
?	Shakespeare
?	Short Story
?	English Literature 1 & 2
?	Translation 1 & 2
?	Introduction to Western Thought
For the MA Program
?	Topics in Literature 
?	Topics in Literary Genre
?	Topics in American Literature
?	Methods of Writing Research Papers

 Papers Presented in Conferences
?	Presented a paper entitled: T. S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry in the GSA (Graduate Student Association) - English Department, The University of Texas at Arlington- Texas, USA/ May 2005.
?	A paper presented to the MPCA/MACA conference in Indianapolis, Indiana- USA under the title: The Classical Origins of Detective Fiction: Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Ross Macdonald's The Goodbye Look/ October 27-29, 2006.
?	Presenting a paper and participating in APETAU fourth international conference which was held in Amman from November 14-16, 2009.

Participation in Conferences and Other Activities

?	Member of the Publications committee in the 1996 ICET World Assembly: Teacher Education and School Reform- Amman, Jordan/ December 16-21, 1996.
?	A participant in the Seminar which was held in Yarmouk University- Irbid, Jordan from April 6-7, 1999. The title of the Seminar is: Educational Qualification: Reality and Ambition.
?	Member of the committee of Continuous Professional Development for Teachers- Capacity Building Project for the Management of Educational Services in collaboration with the British Council- Amman, Jordan/ 1999-2001.
?	A Training Course in Britain about The Continuous Professional Development of Teachers/ May 10-18, 2000.
?	A Training Course in Poland supervised by UNESCO about Inter-cultural Studies and Dialogue of Civilizations / Warsaw University- Warsaw, Poland/ June 15-August 18, 2001 (the course included 270 teaching hours which is equivalent to 30 credit hours, there were participants from 16 different countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe, and it included many social and cultural activities)
?	A participant in several conferences and seminars about education and the professional development of teachers inside and outside Jordan.
?	Presented a paper entitled: T. S. Eliot's Impersonal Theory of Poetry in the GSA (Graduate Student Association) - English Department, The University of Texas at Arlington- Texas, USA/ May 2005.
?	A paper presented to the MPCA/MACA conference in Indianapolis, Indiana- USA under the title: The Classical Origins of Detective Fiction: Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Ross Macdonald's The Goodbye Look/ October 27-29, 2006.
?	- Attending APETAU second regional forum. Tafila Technical University. Tafila, Jordan. 19th August, 2007.
?	Attending a mini-conference entitled "Islam and Globalisation"organised by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Jordan, Amman, April 15th, 2008.
?	Presenting a paper and participating in APETAU fourth international conference which was held in Amman from November 14-16, 2009.
?	Representing The Hashemite University in a workshop organized by The British Council about the British Exams, Intercontinental Hotel, Amman, July 27th, 2011.
?	Representing The Hashemite University in a workshop organized by the Fulbright Office in Amman, Jordan American Committee for Educational Exchange, in the Fulbright Office, September 15th, 2011.
?	Representing The Hashemite University in EducationUSA MENA (Middle East and North Africa) conference to discuss developing strategic institutional partnerships and linkages between the universities in this region and US universities. The conference was held in Doha, Qatar, April 10th-15th, 2011.
?	Representing The Hashemite University in a conference entitled" Teaching Integrity: Challenges and Ambitions." The conference was organized by TIRI Organization in Britain., and held in Sharm Al-Sheikh, Egypt, 28th-30th of October, 2011
?	Attending the JOSYLEEM (a project funded by The European Union) meeting in the University of Jordan to re[resent The Hashemite University as a partner, November 20-21, 2011.
?	Representing the Hashemite University in the selection meeting for the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 (JOSYLEEM) candidates which was held in France/Paris during the period from March 21-22, 2012. This is an EU funded project in which more than twenty universities from Jordan, Syria, and Europe are partners. It provides financial support for faculty, staff, and student mobility between these countries.
?	Representing The Hashemite University in a seminar entitled “Managing Internationalization Strategies between Higher Education Institutions in Jordan and Germany.” The seminar is organized by the German Rectors’ Conference and was held in the University of Jordan/ Center of Strategic Studies on November 12-13, 2012.
?	Participating in a workshop entitled “Motivation in the Classroom: Shaping the Way we Teach” organized by The Language Center in the Hashemite University in cooperation with the Danish_Jordanian University Cooperation on October 13th, 2015

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