The English Division is dedicated to the study of English language and literature. It houses the Center for English Proficiency, the Arts & Sciences Core Composition and Literature courses, the AUD Writing Center, the annual Essay Contest, and the Minor in Literature. The English Division’s mission is to provide students with the advanced reading and writing skills needed to succeed in today’s competitive academic and professional environment. Students develop these skills through a range of courses that focus on critical reading, rhetoric and composition, academic research, and the literary arts. Students who enroll in English courses experience an intellectually stimulating learning environment that encourages creative, independent thinking and celebrates the diversity of experience and expression that is at the core of the best critical and creative writing.
The Literature Minor prepares students with a focused knowledge of literature, while allowing them the flexibility to focus on the periods or genres that are of particular interest to them. Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours from the following list of courses:
*ENGL 210 excluded for B.C.I.S. Journalism (English Track) and Digital Production and Storytelling (English Track)
**ENGL 275-278 may be repeated if topics are different.
Category 1: Awards for Outstanding Essays in First-Year Composition
First Prize: Setareh (Seti) Ghavami for “Drifting Dreams” and Rita Mikhail for “Who is my son Worshiping?”
Second Prize: Cathlyn Nassif for “Digital Technology”
Category 2: Awards for Outstanding Research Essays in First-Year Composition
First Prize: Leen Marwan Hatahet for “My Life Flashed before my Eyes”
Category 3: Awards for Outstanding Essays of Literary Criticism
First Prize: Yasmeen Saleh for “Martin Espada’s Pride”
Category 1: Awards for Outstanding Essays in First-Year Composition
First Prize: Victor Kochegura for “Why does Russia Lack International Experts?”
Category 2: Awards for Outstanding Research Essays in First-Year Composition
First Prize: Joud Abu Dahrouj for “Violence and Dissipated Memories” • Second Prize: Dana Otoom for “Artistic Healing”
Category 3: Awards for Outstanding Essays of Literary Criticism
First Prize: Veronika Zemskova for “Dark Humor, Surrealism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Literature”
Second Prize: Silmi Noorie Changaai for “Reader Response: Man's Search for Meaning – Discovering Meaning in Life through Suffering”
Associate Professor Gail Hammill
- “Fifth Position: Unlocking Space,” Portland Review https://portlandreview.org/fifth-position-unlocking-space/
- “Dancers in a Mirror,” The Dillydoun Review https://thedillydounreview.com/issue-7/gail-hammill/
Assistant Professor Alan Hickman
- “Betrayal/Portrayal.” Poem. Indelible Literary and Arts Journal https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:99249171-ec2a-42c0-84a0-0e8692186584
- “Backward and Abysm.” Poem. Indelible Literary and Arts Journal https://indeliblelit.com/2022/03/03/backward-and-abysm-by-alan-forrest-hickman.
Dr. Sally Kondos
- ‘The Impact of Teaching Formulaic Sequences on Improving the writing skills of Freshman Students at an American University in the Middle East,’ 10.33423/jhetp.v20i11.3774
- ‘The Correlation Between Teaching Collocations and Lexical Bundles and the Improvement in the Writing Skill of First-Year University Students. Diss. University of Exeter (United Kingdom),’ http://hdl.handle.net/10871/133270
- ‘The Effect of the Use of Technology on the Nature of Teacher’s Profession,’ http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3150910
Assistant Professor Kristin Rozzell Murray
- “The Prologue and Interlude in Tommy Orange’s There, There.” https://www.cpcc.edu/sites/default/files/2021-06/Teaching%20American%20Literature%20Winter%202021%20Teaching%20the%20West.pdf
- “Time Travel in the Composition Classroom.” https://www.dpublication.com/proceeding/6th-icfte/#Table-of-Contents
Associate Professor Omar Sabbagh
- Y KNOTS: Short Fictions, October 2023 (Liquorice Fish Books)
- Morning Lit, March 2022 (Cinnamon Press)
- Cedar: Scenes from Lebanese Life, June 2023 (Northside House)
- For Echo, April 2024 (Cinnamon Press)
- RIP: Poems after Gaza & Words after Waddah, March 2024 (Cinnamon Press)
- “Peripatetics: Reading Fiona Sampson’s Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside.” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0013838X.2022.2136860
- “A Samizdat Man.” Short Story. https://www.english.su.se/two-thirds-north
- “Letter to an Innocent in a Time of War” & “Unhomely.” https://www.nereview.com/vol-43-no-2-2022/
- “Missing” & ‘A Family Tradition.” https://www.standmagazine.org/archive/stand-237-211/76
- “Descent” & “In A Foreign Land.” Poem. September 2022. Acumen.
- “The Wisdom of Marguerite Yourcenar.” Poem. Spring 2023. Agenda.
- “The Delusion.” Poem. Spring 2024. New Humanist
Assistant Professor Naila Sahar
- 'Praxis: Postcolonial Feminism: Women's Digital Activism and Its Challenges in South Asia with a Focus on Pakistan.' https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003246428-29/praxis-naila-sahar
- "Muslim Women’s Activism in the USA: Politics of Diverse Resistance Strategies.” https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/11/1023
- “Double Bind of Muslim Women’s Activism in Pakistan: Case of Malala Yousafzai and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.” https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol24/iss2/14/
- “Memoirs, Muslim Women and Transcultural Symbolic Solidarities.” https://www.routledge.com/Transcultural-Humanities-in-South-Asia-CriticalEssays-on-Literature-and/Anwar/p/book/9780367483715
- “Women colonized: Trafficking and commodification of women revisiting Shahid Nadeem’s Dukhini.” https://pakistanwomenstudies.com/index.php/pjws/article/view/131
- “Narrating Pakistani History: Mingling Memory and Experience in Kamila Shamsie's Novels.” https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/article/view/1526
- “Feminist Ethnography, Revisionary Historiography and the Subaltern in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade.” https://www.routledge.com/MemoryVoice-and-Identity-Muslim-Womens-Writing-from-across-the-Middle/JussawallaOmran/p/book/9780367569761
