The mission of the Department of English at Khalifa University is to broaden and deepen knowledge about English as a medium of inquiry and communication in second-language contexts, especially within the sciences, technology, engineering, and medicine. Instructionally, our mission is to provide a broad range of courses designed to build the literacy and communicative skills of graduate and undergraduate students in English, as well as offer an increasingly diverse range of courses in literature, communications, rhetoric, and digital composition, all with a STEM focus.
The Department’s research mission is to become a leader in the study of English as a medium of scientific learning and inquiry internationally and especially across the Middle East, Eurasia, and Africa. Our faculty have correspondingly international backgrounds and address the Department’s mission from a wider range of specializations than typical English departments. Areas of expertise include English education, TESOL/TEFL, communications, linguistics, literature and science fiction, rhetoric, composition, digital composition, technical communication, and medieval/early modern literature and writing. Ongoing departmental research includes studies in post-humanism and science fiction, early modern literature, instructional technology and the sciences, action research in L2 classrooms, second-language literacy, philosophy of education, informal language learning, translation, and teacher education.
Faculty engage in research in various disciplinary areas that include academic literacy, applied linguistics, cognition, curriculum design, discourse analysis, educational philosophy, educational psychology, engineering education, entrepreneurship, gender studies, human capital development, learning styles, literary studies, science fiction, semiotics, and teacher education. A list of faculty members with their specific research areas is below:
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Dr. Anthony Archdeacon |
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Dr. Nader Ayish |
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Dr. Curtis D. Carbonell |
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Robert Craig |
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David F. Dalton |
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Dr. Tanju Deveci |
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Dr. Nicholas Dimmitt |
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Dr. Mark Dressman |
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Dr. Glenda El Gamal |
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Wael El Sokkary |
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Kevin Garvey |
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Dr. Arby Ted Siraki |
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Dr. Mutasim Al-Deaibes |
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Dr. Mary Hatakka |
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Dr. Leila Kucukalic |
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Donald John Langille |
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Dr. Hwee Ling Lim |
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Dr. Jessica Midraj |
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Dr. Sevket Benhur Oral |
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Dr. Matthew Overstreet |
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Dr. Mark Wyatt |
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