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Yasser Fouad A. Selim, PhD

Associate Professor, English Literature

Overview

Dr. Yasser Fouad Selim is Associate Professor of English literature at the department of English, Faculty of Arts, Sohag University, Egypt. He is also Associate Professor of English Literature and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs & Research at Al Buraimi University College, Oman (on-secondment). Dr. Selim received his PhD in 2008 from Sohag University, Egypt, in joint supervision with the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Dr. Selim’s research interests and publications focus on English drama, the interaction between Western and Eastern cultures and the formation of identity within the contexts of politics, racialization, and ethnicization in America. He is the editor of Who Defines Me? Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). He served various academic administrative positions at Al-Buraimi University College, Oman, including Head of English Department (2012-2015), Director of Scientific Research and Higher Studies Department (2015-2016), Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs & Research (2016-Present), and Acting Dean (intervals). Dr. Selim is also an external reviewer for Oman Academic Accreditation Authority; programs reviewer for Oman Ministry of Higher Education; and an editor for a number of international journals.

Academic Employment

2016-Present

Associate Professor of English Literature, Faculty of Arts, Sohag

University, Egypt (Full-Time/on-leave).

Date of Birth: 02.05.1978

Address: - The Sultanate of Oman, Al Buraimi P.C 512.

- Egypt, Sohag, Western Nile Corniche.

Telephone Number: Oman: +96895667581, Egypt: +201144471106

E-mail: yassfouad@gmail.com

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-yasser-fouad

Marital Status: Married, Two Children

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2008-2016

2010- Present

Assistant Professor of English Literature, Faculty of Arts, Sohag

University, Egypt (Full-Time/on-leave).

Assistant Professor/then Associate Professor of English Literature,

Department of English, Al Buraimi University College, Oman (Full-

Time/on-secondment)

2004-2008 Assistant Lecturer, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Sohag

University, Egypt (Full-Time).

2000-2004 Demonstrator, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Sohag

University, Egypt (Full-Time).

1999- 2000 English Language Instructor, the International British Institute (IBI),

Sohag, Egypt (Full-Time).

Education

2008 (February) PhD in English Literature (joint degree); Sohag University, Egypt, in

joint supervision with the University of California at Los Angeles.

A First-Class Degree

Supervisors: Prof. King-Kok Cheung (UCLA, USA), Prof. Fawzia

Gadallah (Sohag University, Egypt)

Dissertation: “East-West Collision in the Major Plays of David Henry

Hwang”

2004 (February) MA in English Literature; Faculty of Arts, Sohag University, Egypt.

Thesis: “Southern Aspects in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart, The

Miss Firecracker Contest, and The Wake of Jamey Foster.”

1999 (May) BA in English Language and Literature, Department of English, South

Valley University, Sohag Branch, Egypt.

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Academic Administrative Experience

May 2016-Present

Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Research, Al Buraimi

University College, Oman.

March 2015-Present Chair of the Scientific Research Committee, Al Buraimi University

College, Oman.

March 2015-May

2016

Director of the Department of Scientific Research and Higher

Studies, Al Buraimi University College, Oman.

Feb.2012-March 2015 Head of English Department, Al Buraimi University College, Oman.

October 2011-March

2015

Chair of Research and Symposia Committee, Al Buraimi

University College, Oman.

Feb. 2012-Present Member in the College Council, Al Buraimi University College,

Oman.

2011-2015 Chair of the Assurance of Learning Committee, Al Buraimi

University College, Oman.

2013-Present Member in the Strategic Planning Committee, Al Buraimi

University College, Oman.

2013-Present Member in the Crisis Management Committee, Al Buraimi

University College, Oman.

June 2008-July 2010 Member in the Translation Program Steering Committee, Faculty

of Arts, Sohag University, Egypt.

Academic Accreditation and Programs Review Service

March 2017-Present. Academic Accreditation External Reviewer: Oman Academic

Accreditation Authority.

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(http://www.oaaa.gov.om/About.aspx#ReviewerDetails&id=283)

2015- Present Chair of the Staff Research and Consultancy Standard

(Institutional Accreditation, Stage 2), Al Buraimi University College,

Oman.

May 2015-Present Postgraduate Programs Reviewer and Consultant, Ministry of

Higher Education, Sultanate of Oman (March 2015-Present).

2016-Present Chair of the Student Learning by Coursework Program Standard

(Institutional Accreditation, Stage 2), Al Buraimi University College,

Oman.

Feb. 2012-Present Member in the Quality Assurance Steering Committee, Al Buraimi

University College, Oman.

June 2008- July 2010 Member in the Quality Assurance Unit, Faculty of Arts, Sohag

University, Egypt.

Research Grants and Overseas Studies

2005-2007 Visiting Scholar at the University California, Los Angeles.

2003 (Summer) Fulbright Commission Grant to its first American Studies

Summer Institute in Egypt. This was a two-week residential

program for scholars and students from throughout Egypt for training

in American Studies methods. I got a Certificate of Completion from

the George Washington University and the Fulbright Commission.

2002 (7-17 July) IELP2 Summer Institute in Teaching ESP Courses Grant, This

was a two-week residential program for teaching assistants from

throughout Egypt for training in ESP course design and teaching,

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Alexandria, Egypt.

Professional Development Trainings and Workshops

2017 (22 July-02

August)

“Trainer of Trainers (ToT),” Workshop organized by IT Training

Centre, Sohag University, Egypt.

2017 (3-4 July) “Stress Management,” Faculty and Leadership Development Centre,

Cairo University, Egypt.

2017 (5-6 July) “E-Learning,” Faculty and Leadership Development Centre, Cairo

University, Egypt.

2017 (5-6 July) “Effective Teaching Skills,” Faculty and Leadership Development

Centre, Cairo University, Egypt.

2017 (17-18 April) “Institutional Standard Assessment External Reviewers

Training,” Oman Academic Accreditation Authority, Crown Plaza

Hotel, Muscat, Oman.

2016 (17-18 April) “Humanities Research Centers in the Arab World: Challenges,

Opportunities, and Cooperation,” a two-day conference organized

by the Humanities Research Centre, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.

2015 (11-12 October)

“Publishing and Grant Proposal Writing,” a two-day workshop

organized by the Research Council in Oman and delivered by COACH

program (http://coach.uoregon.edu), Sohar University, Oman.

2014 (7-8 April) “Strategic Planning Workshop (Workshop Leader: Prof. Alan

Glassman from California State University at Northridge, USA), Al

Buraimi University College, Oman.

2014 (11-13 December)

“Strategic Planning: Saying it & Living it, Measuring Impact &

Leading Change” (Workshop Leader: Prof. Alan Glassman from

California State University at Northridge, USA), Al Buraimi

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University College, Oman.

2014 ( 20-22 January) “Risk Management Workshop (Workshop Leader: Dr. Gary

Langsdale from Pennsylvania State University, USA), Al Buraimi

University College, Oman.

2008 (12-14 January) “Local and Competitive Research Projects,” Faculty Leadership

and Development Project, Sohag University, Egypt.

2008 (12-14 February) “Credit Hours System,” Faculty Leadership and Development

Project, Sohag University, Egypt.

2008 (16-18 February) “Using Technology in Teaching,” Faculty Leadership and

Development Project, Sohag University, Egypt.

2007 (4-6 December) “Communication Skills in Teaching,” Faculty Leadership and

Development Project, Sohag University, Egypt.

2007 (11-13December) “Scientific Research Publishing,” Faculty Leadership and

Development Project, Sohag University, Egypt.

2004 (4-5 December) “Work Ethics,” Faculty Leadership and Development Project, South

Valley University, Egypt.

2003(February) University Teachers’ Training, Faculty of Education, Sohag

University, Egypt.

2003(24 Aug-1 Sept.) Students’ Achievement Test Development Workshop (SATD

2003), IELP II, Alexandria, Egypt.

2001(28 July- 2 Aug.) Course Design and Materials Development Workshop, IELP II,

Cairo, Egypt.

2000 (17-21 Sept.) Communicative Methods for Language Instructors Workshop,

IELP II, Asyut, Egypt.

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

2016 (July) Selim, Yasser Fouad. “The Cruelty of American Apocalypse in Sam Shepard’s

Kicking a Dead Horse.” Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences,

Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research, Rome, Italy, 7.4

(July 2016).

2016

Selim, Yasser Fouad. “Slaves in Algiers and Argo: Reproducing Islamophobia

in Early and Contemporary America.” ANGLICA: An International Journal of

English Studies. University of Warsaw 25.1 (2016).

2015

(February)

Selim, Yasser Fouad. “Wakako Yamauchi’s 12-1-A and Yussef El Guindi’s

Back of the Throat: Politics, Ethnicity, and the Question of American

Multiculturalism.” The International Journal of Literary Humanities. Common

Ground Publishing, Illinois University, USA (February 2015):9-17. (Referred).

2014

(December)

Selim, Yasser F. “Performing Arabness in Arab American Stand-Up Comedy.”

American, Canadian and British Studies, The Academic Anglophone Society

of Romania, Lucian Balga University Press. 23 (Dec. 2014): 77-92. (Referred).

2014

(February)

Selim, Yasser Fouad. “Arab American Theatre Caught in Censorship: A Study

of Betty Shamieh’s Plays.” International Journal of Humanities and Social

Sciences. Centre for Promoting Ideas, USA, 4.3 (February, 2014): 81-86.

(Referred)

2012

(December)

Selim, Yasser Fouad. “The Representation of Arab America in Betty

Shamieh’s Roar and The Black Eyed.”. Comparative American Studies,

England,11.4 (December, 2012): 293-303. (Referred)

2009 Selim, Yasser Fouad. “Homebody/Kabul: Corrupting Touches of Global

Politics.” El-Minia University First International Conference Proceedings

Book, El-Minia, Egypt. (Referred)

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Books and Book Chapters

2014 Selim, Yasser Fouad. and Eid Mohamed, Eds. Who Defines Me? Negotiating

Identity in Language and Literature. Cambridge Scholars Publishers.

2014 Selim, Yasser Fouad. “The Making of Identity in Arab American Stand Up

Comedy.” In Who Defines Me? Negotiating Identity in Language and

Literature, edited by Yasser Fouad Selim and Eid Mohamed. Cambridge

Scholars Publishers.

2011 Selim, Yasser Fouad. “The Theatre of David Henry Hwang: From

Hyphenation to the New Mainstream.” In Positioning the New: Chinese

American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon.

Edited by Tanfer EminTunc and Elisabetta Marino. Cambridge Scholars

Publishers, 2011. 114-127.

Papers Presented in Referred Conferences

“Academic Accreditation and Assurance of Learning in Higher Education”

2nd

General Education Conference, Abu Dhabi University, UAE, 27-28

October, 2017.

“A Tragic Hero in Upper Egypt: The Localization of King Lear in Dahsha”

Third International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature and

Translation, Department of English Language and Literature, Sultan Qabus

University, The Sultanate of Oman, 3-5 November, 2016.

“Reproducing Islamophobia in Susanna Haswell Rowson’s Slaves in Algiers (1794) and

Ben Affleck’s Argo (2012).

American Studies Association of Turkey 37th International American Studies

Conference: Transnational American Studies. Akdeniz University, Faculty of

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Letters, Department of English Language and Literature, Antalya, Turkey, 25-27

November, 2015.

“Wakako Yamauchi’s 12-1-A and Yussef El Guindi’s Back of the Throat: Politics,

Ethnicity, and the Question of American Multiculturalism.”

The Twelfth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities,

CEU San Pablo University, Madrid, Spain, 11-13 June, 2014.

“The Making of Identity in Arab American Stand-Up Comedy”

BUC First International Conference: Negotiating Identity in Language and

literature, Al Buraimi University College, The Sultanate of Oman, 19-20

September, 2012.

“Arab American Stand-Up Comedy: Negotiating Identity through Humor”

Conference on “ American Literature and the Changing World,” co-

organized by Renmin University of China and the University of California at Los

Angeles, held at Renmin University of China, Beijing between 30 June-1 July,

2012.

“Staging Arab America in Betty Shamieh’s Roar and The Black Eyed”

The British Association for American Studies Conference, School of

American Studies, University of East Anglia, UK, 8-11 April, 2010.

“Homebody/Kabul: Corrupting Touches of Global Politics.”

El-Minia University First International Conference, El-Minia, Egypt, 3-5

November, 2008.

Trainings and Seminars Delivered

31 October-2

November 2017

“How to Enhance Teachers’ Assessment Skills,” a 3-day training

given to school English language teachers. The training was organized

by the Human resources Department, Directorate of Education, Al

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Buraimi governorate.

2017 (May) “Writing Effective Learning Outcomes Based on Bloom's Taxonomy

of Educational Objectives,” a workshop delivered to school English

language teachers. The workshop was organized by the Training,

Consultancy, and Community Service Department, Al Buraimi

University College.

2017 (11 May) “Academic Advising,” a Workshop delivered at Maritime International

College, Sohar, The Sultanate of Oman.

2016 (24 March) “Keynote Speech: Scientific Research and Academic Accreditation,”

Scientific Research in Omani Private Universities and Colleges:

Challenges and Prospects, National Symposium, Al Buraimi

University College, Oman.

2015 (20 August) “Scientific Research at BUC: Mapping the Way,” Al Buraimi

University College Research Forum No. 1/ 2015-2016

2015 (05 November)

“Scientific Research at BUC: Moving Forward,” Al Buraimi

University College Research Forum No. 2/ 2015-2016

Conferences and Symposiums Organized

Conference Chair, BUC First International Conference: Negotiating Identity in

Language and Literature, Al Buraimi University College, Oman, 19-20 Sep., 2012.

Conference Chair, BUC 2nd International Multidisciplinary Conference: English

Language, Literature, and Information Technology, Al Buraimi University College,

Oman, 2-3 May, 2015.

Symposium Chair, Scientific Research in Omani Private Universities and Colleges:

Challenges and Prospects,” Al Buraimi University College, Oman, 24 March 2016.

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Research Interests

English Drama

The interaction, clashes, and dialogue between Western and Eastern cultures.

The formation of identity within the contexts of politics, racialization, and

ethnicization in America.

Asian American Literature

Arab American Literature

Postcolonial American Literature.

Media, Literature, and Representation.

Digital Theatre

Editorial Board Services and Professional Membership

Advisory Editor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, England, October 2017-Present.

Guest Editor, The International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English

literature, Australian International Academic Centre, Vol. 4, No. 6, 2015.

Associate Editor, The International Journal of Literary Humanities. Common

Ground Publishing, Illinois U, USA, 2014-

Associate Editor, The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies, Common

Ground Publishing, Illinois U, USA, 2014-

March 2014-Present. Member in The New Directions in the Humanities knowledge

Community (http://thehumanities.com).

Theses Supervised

Amany Abdelqahar, “The Black Experience in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks.”

Faculty of Arts, Sohag University, Egypt. Defended on August, 2012 (defended).

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Nagwa Mohammad, “The Arab Diaspora in America in Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent

and Arabian Jazz.” Faculty of Arts, Sohag University, Egypt (defended).

Extracurricular Activities

Judge, Charisma Competition in the Higher Academic Institutions in the Governorate

of Al Buraimi, Organized by Al Waha Institute, Al Buraimi, Oman, April 2017.

Supervisor of the English Department Student Group (DOES Group), Al Buraimi

University College, Oman, 2012-2015.

Chair of a bi-weekly Literary and Cultural Salon, Al Buraimi University College,

Oman, 2012-2015.

Judge, The Second Theatre Forum, Al Buraimi University College, Oman, April

2016.

Judge, Best Student Presentation Competition, Students’ Activities Department, Al

Buraimi University College, 2012, 2015.

Director, Students’ performance of The Merchant of Venice, Al Buraimi University

College, Oman, December 2013.

Director, Students’ Theatrical performance of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, Al

Buraimi University College, Oman, May 2015.

Teaching (Sample)

2010-Present, Al Buraimi University College, the Sultanate of Oman, Department

of English. (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor):

Elizabethan Drama, Modern Drama, Victorian Novel, English Poetry, Critical

Approaches to Literature, The Short Story, Essay Writing and freshman Composition,

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Study Skills, Advanced Communication Skills, Seminar in Literature, Survey of

American Literature, British Literature in the 20th

Century, Readings in

Contemporary English Literature, Literature in the Media.

2008-2010, Sohag University, Egypt, Department of English, Faculties of Arts and

Education (Assistant Professor):

Shakespeare and English Drama #1, Shakespeare and English Drama #4, American

Literature in the 19th

Century, American Literature in the 20th

Century, English

Novel, Essay Writing, Translation from English into Arabic, History of English

Literature, English Culture of the 17th

Century, English Culture of the 19th

Century,

English Culture of the 20th

Century, Listening and Speaking.

2000-2005, South Valley University, Egypt, Department of English, Faculties of

Arts and Education (Teaching Assistant):

Shakespeare and Drama, English Novel in the 19th

Century, Grammar, Essay Writing,

English Phonetics, American Literature in the 19th

Century, American Literature in

the 20th

Century.

2007-2008 Language Door, Los Angeles, California (Part Time): Teaching Arabic

language and literature to English speakers.

References

Prof. King-Kok Cheung (PhD Supervisor)

Professor of English and Asian American studies, University of California, Los Angeles,

Department of English, Box 951530, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530

Email: cheung@humnet.ucla.edu

Dr. Atta Gebril

Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics

The American University of Sharjah

Email: agebril@aucegypt.edu

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Dr. Shaker Al Mohammadi

Assistant Professor of English Culture

Al Buraimi University College, Oman

Email: shaker@buc.edu.om