CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal details:

Name: BOUHLILA
First name: Mohamed "Sadok" Ben Mohamed Ezzeddine (full name as appears on passport)
Gender: Male
Birth date and place of Birth: 26/10/54.Hammam-lif. Tunisia.
Age: 59
Postal Address: 42, Bis Rue de Libye, Hammam-Lif, 2050.Tunis.Tunisia.
e-mail : sbouh@yahoo.com
Telephone: cellphone 0558324200
Status: Married, one daughter.
Nationality: Tunisian
Current Position: Associate Professor of English (Ustedh Mucharak) at the Languages and
Translation Department at the Rafha Branch of the Northern Borders University, Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia as of September 2013.
Department,
Medical: OK.

Academic Qualifications:

Schools and University:

1957-59:Kindergarten.Lexington Av , New-York,USA.
59-62 : Lycée Francais de Stockholm,Sweden.
62-65: Ecole Primaire, Mutuelleville, Tunisia.
65-67: Lycée Francais de Rome ,Italy.
67-71: Lycée Francais de La Haye,The Netherlands.
71-73: Lycée Carnot,Tunis.Tunisia.
-June 73: Baccalaureat exam, section A5 (Philosophy/languages).
-1975: Cambridge Proficiency Exam, University of Cambridge.(UK) During one year
training period (under the auspices of The British Council Exchange bureau) at Southgate
School, Cockfosters, London where I taught French.
ㅁ- 1978: Bachelor in English Studies (Maîtrise).Faculty of Letters and Human and Social
Sciences, Tunis, FLSHT.

University studies:

- 1979 C.A.R (MA) Memoir: Nightmare and Reality in George Orwell's 1984.Faculte des
Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Tunis. (FLSHT) Honours.
-1980 DRA exams. FLSHS. Tunis. Honours.
- 1986 Doctoral thesis (DRA): Modern Dystopian Fiction: Genesis-Typology- Evaluation.
Full Honours. FLSHT.
-Habilitation Universitaire. Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities , Manouba University
(FLAHM). 2004.

Professional Experience:

In Tunisia and abroad:

-1978 -1980 Secondary school Teacher of English at the Lycée Hammamet, Tunisia.
-1980- 1986 PES détaché (teaching assistant) at the FLSHT/ and the Faculty of Letters , Arts
and Humanities of Manouba, Tunis (FLAHM).
-1986-1988 Assistant (Lecturer) at the FLAHM ,Tunis.
-1989-1990 Teaching assistant of French at the French Department, University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
-1989- 2004. Maitre-Assistant.(Assistant Professor) at the FLAHM, Tunis.
- 1995-2000. Assistant Professor and Head of the English Language Unit at Nizwa
Teachers College of Education in the Sultanate of Oman (Omani Ministry of Higher
Education).
-2004-2013 (November) to date. Maître de Conferences, (Associate Professor) at the
FLAHM. Tunis.
- From September 2013, Associate Professor of English (Ustedh Mucharak) at the Languages
and Translation Department English at the Rafha Branch of the Northern Borders University,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Pedagogical Activities:

Levels:
-Taught at first, second and third cycle (graduate studies +agregation)

Courses taught in Tunisia: (first and second cycle):

-English Comprehension ,composition, grammar.,translation.

-Introduction to fiction.(American and British)
-20th century Fiction .(US and GB) G.Greene's The Quiet American, Steinbeck's Of Mice
and Men, Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, C.Mc Cullers The Ballad of the Sad Café,
Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, E.M.Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread,
W.Golding's Lord of the Flies, .V. Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
-Modern Drama.(US and GB) T.William's The Glass Menagerie, Pinter's The Caretaker,
Osborne's Look Back in Anger, Miller's Death of a Salesman, A.Wesker's Chicken Soup with
Barley, E.Bond's Saved.
- 19th century and Victorian novel. Dickens's Great Expectations, Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
- Modern Literary theory.
-Survey of English literature. (second and third year)
- D.H.Lawrence. Sons and Lovers.
-Anglophone literature. J.M.Coetzee's Foe
-Renaissance Literature. Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil.

Graduate (DEA and MA) + Aggregation courses:

-Translation course (1992-93) (DEA)

-Literary Theory (1992-93) DEA) and to date in LMD Master’s program.
 -Readings in modern Fiction:Joyce, Orwell, Ondaatje at FLM and at the Faculté des
Lettres of Sousse.(2000-2002) (Masters level)
- The Literary Utopia with special reference to Thomas More’s Utopia. (2003-2010)
(Master’s level)
- Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (2005-2008)
- Jane Austen’s Persuasion (2009 to date)
- George Orwell’s Animal Farm (LMD Master 1, 2012)
- Orwell’s later works: A reappraisal of AF and 1984 (Agregation 2 course 2013).

In Oman:

-General English
-Guided Essays.
-ESP/EFLcourses.
-Award of the best teacher at Nizwa Teachers training College of Education.1997 and
1999.

In KSA:
ㅂ- Modern Anglo-American literature, the novel, drama, and poetry as well as a course on
medical English for health professionals under the aegis of the Saoudi Higher Education
Ministry.

Training programmes:
Teaching English as part of the 21/21 Government English upgrading program (2002-
2004)

Supervision, Jury activities and committees:

Committees:

-Chairman of the national jury from the recruitment of Assistants (lecturers) in English as
of 2012
-Head of the English Doctoral and ‘Habilitation program (Graduate studies) at FLAHM
from 2005 to 2011.
- Member of the steering committee (Comité de Pilotage) of the PAQ (Programme
d’Assistance a la Qualité) at the Ministry of Higher education as of June 2006 to date.
- Member of the LMD reform National Committee for English as of 2006, to date.
-Member of the working group in charge of preparing programs for the Virtual University
of Tunis (UVT), as of 2007-2009.
-Member of the National Recruitment commitment for Assistant- Professors.FLAHM 2008.
-Member of the National Recruitment Committee for lecturers (Assistants). FLAHM .1993-
1995/ 2003-2005 and from 2011 to date.
-Member of the National committee for equivalences. Ministry of Higher Education
Tunis.2000- to date.-Member of the follow-up committee for English at the Directorate
General for Higher Colleges and Institutes, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. 1995-2000.
-Member of the coordination Committee for Curriculum Development. Directorate General
for Higher Education Colleges and Institutes. Sultanate of Oman. 1995-2000.
Supervision:

a) Phd Dissertations:

- “Aspects of cynicism and amorality in the English novel with a special reference to
Oscar wilde's and D.H. Lawrence's Major works”: Abdelfatah Ghezal, submitted.
-“Debating secondary schools history textbooks in Britain Today”: Henda Yahyaoui, in
progress.
- “Virginia Woolf and Her Fiction: From the Margin to the Centre”, by Abdelhamid
Rhaiem, in progress.
-“The Emergence of New Modes of Consciousness in V.Woolf’s the Waves, Orlando and
Mrs Dalloway”, by Yafa Hamed, in progress
- “Ethics and poetics in the later poetry of Wallace Stevens”: Imen Ayari, in progress.
- “The Carnivalesque in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn” :Ghailene Najar in progress
- “Utopias of the renaissance”: Hatem Zitouni in progress
- “Desire and Identity in Naipaul’s work”. Samia. Annabi . Defended at FLAHM, April
2010
- “The Power of Negativity and its functioning in the metafictional text with special
reference to Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Barth’s Coming Soon, Swift’s Waterland, Coover’s
Gerald’s Party and De Lillo’s White noise”. Jihene Rebai. Defended as part of a co-
tutelle agreement with the University of Nanterre, Pari Ouest at Nanterre in October ,
2012.
- “Ideology, Politics and aesthetics in 4 novels by J.M Coetzee” by Saalani Moez
submitted.
- "L’écriture de la mémoire dans l’œuvre de Paul Auster : croisement de mémoire
personnelle et collective", Mehdi Kochbati (French co-tutelle with the University of
Nanterre, Paris Ouest, PhD). Defended in Nanterre in October 2013.
- “A study of cultural resistance in Caribbean literature: Andrew Salkey, George Lamming
and Victor S Reid as case studies” by Lamia Zaibi Baklouti. Defended at FLAHM, April
2010
- “The American Constitution”: Justice Brennan, a reformist in a conservative court. Atef
Hedhili. Defended at FLAHM, June 2009
- “Shakespeare in Canada: A study in cultural appropriation” by Imed Sassi. submitted at
FLAHM, 2012 pending assessment.
- “Reason and Madness: A reading of Shakespeare’s Major Tragedies” by Dorra Touzri
Ben Driaa Defended at the FLAHM, June 2013.
- “Madness and the strategies of subversion: a deconstructive reading of Saul Bellow’s
writings” by Ramzi Marrouchi, in progress.
- “Henry Fielding: The Artist’s Journey from drama to Fiction”, by Amel Ben Ahmed, in
progress.
- “Language in Beckett’s Theater: Between the Game of Use and the Claim of Privacy” by
Amal Hlioui, in progress.
-Anxiety, Influence, Tradition and Subversion in the Novels of Jane Austen”, by Iness
Gharbi Souissi, in progress.
- “Feminism and Feminity in the Bronte Sisters” by Deylem Khelifa, in progress.
- “Mothers and Androgynes in the Feminist Utopias of Ursula K. Le Guin's The left Hand
of Darkness and Gilman Perkins Gilman's Herland” by Karima Arif, in progress.
- “Modern Retellings of the Arthurian Legend: the Past in Present Re-presentation” by
Radhia Flah, in progress.
- The Immanent Will in Thomas Hardy’s Later Works”, by Sinda Fourati, in progress.
 -“From the margin to the center: an Introspection of some novels by Virginia Woolf” by
Abdelhamid Rhaiem, in progress.
- “The manifestations of the sublime experience in Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Mao II,
and Falling Man” by Yassine Najjar, in progress
- “Irish Emigration to the US during the Famine (1845-55) from Rural Ireland to Urban
America”, by Lotfi Ben Moallem, submitted.
- “ Hamlet and the question of Author-ity” by Nizar Zouidi, in progress.

b) CAR/ DEA/ MASTERS

-CAR memoir: Desire in A.Brink’s Fiction par Nabil Cherni.FLM.1992

- CAR Memoir: The metaphor of the coal mining world in Women in Love by Irene
Baraket.FLAHM.1993.
- CAR memoir: Traduction de Une peine á Vivre de Rachid Mimouni par Samia
Annabi.FLAHM.1992.
ㅅ- - Bachelor’s degree memoir: Gender relations in C.Bronte’s The Professor by
Nejla Bahri . ENS.2000.

- DEA.Memoir : Seeing through a Room : Virginia Woolf and the anti-Patriarchal

Discourse. Abdelhamid Rhaiem . FLM. June 2002.
- DEA memoir: The apathetic writing in Ian Mac Ewan's The Cement Garden: A
Narrative Study by Lilia Ayari.FLAHM.2003.
ㅇ- DEA memoir: The Fragmentation of the self in the modern period: a study of
V.Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Insaf Ben Fradj. FLAHM 2005.
ㅈ- DEA memoir: Dramas of the absurd in Ionescos’s Rhinoceros and Beckett’s Waiting
For Godot. Sonia Ben Hamadi. FLAHM 2005.
ㅊ- Masters memoir: At the junction of fictionality and utopianism: a study of irony in Sir
Thomas More’s Utopia. Hatem Zitouni. FLAHM 2005.
ㅋ- Masters memoir: the Myth of innocence in Lewis’s Alice in Wonderland, Abdelfatah
Ghezal. FLAHM 2006.
ㅌ- Masters memoir: Realism and Idealism in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. Sinda
Fourati . FLAHM 2006
ㅍ- Masters Memoir: Madness in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King and Herzog. M.
Marrouchi FLAHM 2007
ㅎ- Masters memoir: Laughter in the Fiction of Henry Fielding. Amel Ben Ahmed. FLM
2009.
ㄱ- Bachelor degree memoir: 1984: an ambivalent Dystopia by Dorra Romdhane. ENS,
2012
ㄴ- Masters Memoir: “The Quest for Identity in William Faulkner’s Light in August”.
Yasmina Khedir. FLAHM 2013.

Juries:

a) President:
- DEA memoir: Consumption patterns and English youth culture: A case study of
Colchester in the 1980’s and 1990’s by Raoudha Riahi. Supervisor Prof. Adel Menai
FLAHM 2004.
-Master’s memoir: Kerouac’s On the Road: A quest for identity by Akram Khelifa.
Supervisor Prof.Edward Sklepowich. FLAHM 2004
- DEA Memoir: Mise- en –abyme: the case of the play within the play in Shakespeare’s A
Midsummer’s Night Dream and As you Like it by Leila Jemai; Supervisor Prof. Jaleledine
Boussedra. FLAHM 2005.
- DEA Memoir: The disguise convention in 4 Shakespearian comedies by Rahma
Tebourbi. Prof.Supervisor Jaleledine Boussedra. FLAHM 2005
- DEA Memoir: FBI intelligence gathering VS right to privacy: An American dilemma in
the aftermath of 9/11 attacks by Leila Ameur. Supervisor Prof. Moncef Dhambri; FLAHM
2005.
- DEA Memoir: Proposition 209 VS affirmative action: New Dilemmas of race relations
in the US by Mourad El Mekki: Supervisor Prof. Moncef Dhambri. FLAHM 2005.
- DEA Memoir: Poetic Ambivalence as a strategy of reconciliation: A study of Seamus
Heaney’s early writings by Riadh Bounatirou: Supervisor Prof. Nourredine Fghaier.
FLAHM, 2005
- Master’s memoir: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: A Postmodern parole by Mejida Kallel:
Supervisor Prof. Nejet Mchala. FLAHM. June 2005.
- DEA Memoir: Metaphor and the Theme of the Quest in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
by Olfa Hanini Amamou: supervisor Prof. Edward Sklepowich. FLAHM 2006;
- Master’s memoir: Writing Modernist Poetics and Politics in Joyce’s Ulysses by Amel
Antit: supervisor Prof. Noureddine Fghaier; FLAHM. 2007.
- DEA Memoir: “Some Female Characters in Shakespeare’s plays” by Kawther Mokrani:
supervisor Prof. Jaleledine Boussedra, FLAHM 2007.
- Masters Memoir: The Campus Novel: a full picture of the campus in David Lodge’s
Changing Places and Small World by Dhia Daly – Bedoui, supervisor Prof. Hechmi
Trabelsi, FLAHM, 2008.
- Masters Memoir: Media Creation and manipulation of the Self in De Lillo’s Americana,
Players and White Noise by Yassine Najjar : supervisor Prof Hassine Ben Azzouna,
FLAHM 2008.
- Masters Memoir: The Problematic Representation of Postwar American Absurdity in
Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow by Rachid Neji,
supervisor Prof. Noureddine Fgaier, FLAHM 2008.
-Masters memoir: Selfhood between Dream and Nightmare: A reading of Joseph Conrad’s
Heart Of Darkness by Ahlem Labidi, Supervisor Prof. Saloua Cherif, FLAHM 2009.
-Masters memoir: Disintegration of Time in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and
Endgame, by Mariem Selmi, supervisor Prof Rached Khelifa FLAHM. May 2011
- Masters Memoir: The Development of Shakespeare’s Comic Art with special reference
to The Comedy of Errors and As You Like It” by Hani Barhoumi; supervisor: Prof Dorra
Asli FLAHM. November 2011.
-Agregation memoir: “Anachronism: the absurd in King Lear” by Meriem Khemiri;
supervisor Prof Dorra Asli, ENS January 2012.
-Masters memoir: “The Ostracized man: Evolution of the African –American hero through
ideology and identity” by Meriem Mezghani, Supervisor Prof. Faycal Maalej, FLAHM
February 2012.
-Masters memoir: “Evaluating Machine Translation” by Seifeddine Boulehmi, Supervisor,
Prof Ivan Lowe, FLAHM, March 2012.
 - Masters memoir: “Edward Said: Between Cultural Criticism and Cultural Resistance” by
Oussama Laifi, Supervisor, Prof Chamseddine Mnasri, FLAHM, 2012.
-Masters memoir: “Madness in Edgar Allan Poe’s three tales: The Fall of the House of
Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart and the Cask of Amontillado” by Nadia Rahali, Supervisor,
Prof Samia Harbaoui, FSSHT, 2012.
-Masters memoir: “Ethno-Religious Minorities in the United States: A comparative study
of African American and Arab American Muslims” by Mabrouk Mansouri, Supervisor:
Prof Nessima Tarchouna, FLAHM, 2012.
- Masters memoir: “The politics of passion and the psychological aspects in Antony and
Cleopatra and Julius Cesar” by Ibtissem Esghaier. Supervisor: Mounir Khelifa, FLAHM,
2012.
-Masters memoir: “Innocence and Experience”: An Exemplification of William Blake’s
Age” by Imen Trabelsi. Supervisor: Lazhar Bouazzi. FLAHM, 2013.
-ENS Memoir: “Panoptic Power in Dystopias: Reading Orwell’s 1984 and Kafka’s The
Trial” . Supervisor Salwa Karoui Elounelli July 2013, ENS.
- Masters Memoir: “A Theatrical Approach to James Jones’s The Thin Red Line: The
Spectacle of War” by Basma Baazaoui. Supervisor: Dorra Asli. FLAHM 2013.
-Masters Memoir: Charting the Sea of Darkness: A Quest for the Central Female
Character in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury” by Safa Kouki. Supervisor,Neil Jones.
FLAHM 2013.

b) Assessor in Phd dissertations and Habilitation files:

 -Phd dissertation: Enlightenment and Colonization: A reading of select literary

texts by Mounir Guirat; Supervisor Prof. Jaleledine Boussedra. FLAHM, 2004.
-Phd dissertation: Patterns of imperialism in post colonial literature by Lamia
Tayeb. Supervisor S. Corcoran .FLAHM 2005.
-Phd dissertation: The limits of speakability: the subaltern and the emerging self in
Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath’s poetry, by Lobna Ben Salem Ouertatani. Supervisor,
Mohamed Mansouri. FLAHM 2005.
-Habilitation file of Habib Ajroud, FLAHM (Assessor) 2007
- PhD Dissertation: “Another way of telling the Maghreb” by Samira Mechri.
Supervisor Mounir Khelifa,FLAHM, 2010.
- Habilitation file of Salwa Karoui Ellounelli, F. L Sousse, University of Sousse
September 2010.

-PhD Dissertation: “Sexuality and Morality in Joyce’s fiction”, Alya Abid Ghorbel.
Supervisor Prof.Mounir Triki. FLAHM, February 2011
- PhD Dissertation: “Children’s Rights in Tunisia and in the United Kingdom:
Their conditions and roles in society” by Hella Turki Ben Cheikh. Supervisor Prof Lynn
Hannachi. FLAHM 2012.
- PhD Dissertation: “Shakespeare tradapted: Cultural translation studies
approaches to Al Bassam’s Al- Hamlet Summit” by Béchir Saoudi. Supervisor: Prof.
Mounir Triki. FLAHM 2012.
-PhD Dissertation: “The image of Oriental Culture in women’s travel literature
1717- 1893: A tale of difference rather than of self assumed superiority” by Olfa Seddik.
Supervisor Prof. Mohamed Mansouri, FLAHM 2012.
 -PhD Dissertation: “The Dramatic Representation of the American Dream in the
plays of Eugene O Neill” by Rym Chagraoui. Supervisor: Prof Edward Sklepowich.
FLAHM, 2012.
-Habilitation file, Mounir Guirat, FLAHM, 2012.
-PhD Dissertation: “A Sense of the Ludicrous: The Discourse of Humor in the
Fiction of Lorrie Moore, Terry Mc Millan, and Erica Jong” by Nadia Boudidah- Falfoul.
Supervisor: Prof Edward Sklepowich. FLAHM, 2012.
-PhD Dissertation: “Torn Selves in Search of Inner Harmony in Katherine
Mansfield’s Short Fiction” by Nadia Ksontantini. Supervisor: Prof. Nejet Mchala.
FLAHM, 2013.
-PhD Dissertation: “Doom, Desire and the Polis in Eugene O’Neill’s drama” by
Adel Bahroun. Supervisor: Nejet Mchala, FLAHM, 2013.
-PhD Dissertation: “Representations of Britishness, Community Cohesion, and
residential Segregation in British Media” by Hassen Zriba. Supervised by Mounir Triki,
FLAH Sfax, 2013.
-Habilitation file, Abdennebi Ben Beya, FLAHM, April 2013.
-PhD Dissertation: “Willa Cather, The Quest for identity” by Chiraz Mkhinini
Supervised by Edward Sklepowich, FLAHM, May 2013.
-PhD Dissertation: “A study of Male Hysteria in the main works of John Osborne
and Samuel Beckett” by Sana Amami, Supervised by Nejet Mchala, FLAHM , June 2013.

C)Assessor in Bachelors, CAR, DEA and Masters memoirs:

- CAR memoir: “Translation of the first part of M.Feraoun's Les Chemins qui Montent”
by Ben Abdallah Selma. Supervisor Prof. Zouheir Jamoussi. FLAHM.Sept 1991.
-CAR memoir: “Destruction in D.H.Lawrence's short stories” by Safia Sahli. Supervisor
Prof. Hechmi Trabelsi.FLAHM,1992.
-CAR memoir: “Tragicomedy in the Novels of J.Hawkes” by Najoua Mekki. Supervisor
Prof. N.Tarchouna. FL Kairouan.1993.
-CAR memoir: “The theme of uncertainty and incompleteness in W .Boyd’s The New
Confessions”, by Miladi Hajer. Supervisor Prof. A. Attia.FLAHM. 1993.
-DEA Memoir “The Portrait of The Oriental Woman in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's
Turkish Embassy Letters” by Olfa Seddik , Supervisor Prof. Mounir Khelifa.FLAHM.2001.
Bachelor’s degree memoir: “Androgyny in Woolf’s Orlando” by Mouna Meddeb.Supervisor
Prof. A.Attia. ENS .2001
Bachelor’s degree memoir: The old Man and Death by Ibtissem Mejdoub. Supervisor Prof.
Hassine Ben Azzouna.ENS.2001.
-DEA Memoir: “Wavering Towards Freedom: Fragmentation of Narrative and Subject in
V.Woolf's To The Lighthouse and the Waves” by Samira Boujday Mhenni. Supervisor Prof.
Janet Fouli FLAHM. 2002.
-DEA Memoir: “Nature and Art in Dr Johnson's Lives of the Poets” by Aida Ben Ahmed.
Supervisor Prof. Mounir Khelifa. FLAHM.2002.
- DEA Memoir: “The notion of Sin with reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter and The House of the seven Gables” by Chiraz Mkhinini. Supervisor Prof. Edward
Sklepowich. FLAHM. 2002.
-DEA Memoir: “Hanif Kureishi: A study of three novels” by Afef Amamou. Supervisor
Prof. Hechmi Trabelsi. FLAHM. 2003.
-DEA Memoir: “Signs of the Times in Dickens' Hard Times” by Nadia Ksontini.
Supervisor Prof. Janet Fouli. FLAHM. 2003.
 -DEA Memoir: “Disintegration in Shakespeare’s Macbeth” by Salwa Labidi Ben Mlouka .
Supervisor Prof. Dorra Asli, FLAHM 2004.
-DEA Memoir: “Some subversive figures in Shakespeare’s Drama” by Aicha Chelbia;
Supervisor Prof. Jaleledine Boussedra. FLAHM 2003.
- DEA Memoir: “Crisis in the Glass Menagerie” by Oumeima Mouelhi. Supervisor Prof.
Dorra Asli. FLAHM 2004
-DEA Memoir: “In the deep of the modernist big brain: Kurt Vonnegut’s Gallapagos “ by
Zeineb Derbali. Supervisor Prof. Nejet Mchala, FLAHM 2004
- DEA Memoir: “The politics of demystifying sexuality: Towards a class-conscious reading
of Lady Chatterley’s Lover”; Supervisor Prof. Mounir Triki, FLAHM 2005.
- Masters Memoir: “Ghosts, Witches and Apparitions in Shakespeare’s Macbeth” by Souhir
Zekri; Supervisor Prof. Jaleledine Boussedra, FLAHM 2004
- DEA Memoir: “Romeo and Juliet: From the page to the stage to the screen” by Rim Zaoui.
Supervisor Prof. Jaleledine Boussedra, FLAHM 2005.
-Bachelor’s degree memoir: Sleeplessness in Macbeth by Ghaffari Moufida. Supervisor Prof.
Jaleleddine Boussedra. FLAHM 2005.
- DEA Memoir: “Absented women in William Golding’s travelogue Lord of the Flies” by
Hajer Yusfi. Supervisor: Prof.Nejet Mchala. FLAHM 2005
- Masters Memoir: “Sylvia Plath’s Mysticism: Liberation of the Self” by Najoua Zayani:
supervisor Prof: Mohamed Mansouri. FLAHM 2007.
- Masters Memoir: “Desire in J; Joyce’s Fiction: Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man” by Ramzi Rhimi: supervisor Prof Nabil Cherni. FLAHM 2013.
-Masters Memoir: “The Faustian Dilemma: A Religious Reading” by Hosni Mouelhi:
supervisor Prof. Selima Lejri. FLAHM 2013.

Research activities, membership/ participation in societies:

Research Activities:

-Recipient of a Fulbright Award . UCLA. University of California Los Angeles. USA.1989-

1990.
-Member of the Steering Committee of the USIA Conference entitled :New Approaches to
Literary Studies.FLAHM.1995
-Co- founding member of the GRIPOL: Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaire sur la
Poetique de la lecture.FLSH.Tunis.1997.
-Member of the EDS (English Department Seminar) as of 1992.FLM.
ㄷ- Conference organizer for the EDS Research Unit Conference for Strategies of
Betrayal FLAHM 2001, Laughter FLAHM 2003, Utopias FLAHM 2006.
ㄹ- Life member of the American -Indian Association.ASRC.Hyderabad. India.
ㅁ- Member of the Tunisian Association of Aesthetics and Poetics as of March 2003 to
date.
ㅂ- Invited Participant to the British Council English studies Seminar. Trinity College,
Cambridge. UK.1988.
ㅅ- Research training under the auspices of the USIA at the American Studies Research
Center (ASRC)Hyderabad, India.1988.
 -Participant to the 3rd Prepcom for the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva (
Palais des Nations), as member of Tunisian civil society from September 19-31, 2005.
- Member of the editorial committee of La Revue des Langues edited by the Faculty of
Letters, Arts and Humanities of la Manouba (since 2010).

Publications and participation to National and International Seminars:

Books:

- Utopias, co-edited edited with Jaleleddine Boussedra .FLAHM Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-
9973-085-08-5.

-Modern Dystopian Fiction: Genesis-Typology-Evaluation .FLAHM Press

1999.1990.ISBN:9973-900-13-8.

Papers and Essays:

1 - Thomas More, Henry VIII et le Grand Turc, in La Revue Tunisienne des langues
Vivantes n 6. FLAHM Press .1991.ISSN 0330-8197.

2 -The Poetics of disaster:Contemporary Science Fiction and the prospect of Nuclear war in
La Revue Tunisienne des Langues Vivantes, n7.FLAHM Press.1994.ISSN:0330-8197.

3- Lectures Modernes de la Science…Fiction, in Modernité et Post-Modernité. FLAHM

Press.1994.ISBN : 9973-900-68-5

4-George Orwell’s English:Empire,Vision and revision,in Things English..EDS series.

FLAHM Press. ISBN :9973-900-88-X.1992.

5-Making the Makers and the Word: A reading of Dune,in New approaches to American
Studies: A North African perspective. USIA Publication.1994.

6-Homi Bhabha ,Cultural Studies and the Peripheral Scene in Across Boundaries.EDS
Series.FLM .Press.ISBN:9973-900-98-X.1993.

7-Vers une techno-poese:La science –fiction Americaine des années 60 in Actes du colloque
“Mythes et realites dans le Reve Americain”.Dakar. 1989. Publications USIA.

8- The role of ESP in Arabic Medium Colleges of Higher Education in Oman,in Acts of
the International Conference on Education.Bustan Palace.Ministry of Higher Education,
Oman.1997.

9- Participant to the Mediterranean conference, under aegis of Dowling College, New –York
and FLAHM. Title of paper: Cognitive Mapping of the Desert in Ondaatje’s the English
Patient. Gammarth (Corinthia Khamsa Hotel) June 26-30.2001. in La Revue Tunisienne des
Langues Vivantes.FLAHM n11, 2004.
 10-Participant to the Mediterranean Conference under the aegis of The Instituto
Garibaldi And Dowling college at Castellamare di Stabia ( Hotel dei Congressi) Italy.
July 9-14.2002. Title of paper: E.M.Forster's Italian Journey: A reading of Where
Angels Fear to Tread in La Revue Tunisienne des Langues Vivantes .FLAHM n12,
2005.

11- A Different Class of Narrative: George Orwell's Eastern Service War Broadcasts. Paper
read at the Sousse Conference on" Re-reading class" April13-14, 2003 in English Series II.
F.L.Sousse.

12-Patterns of Betrayal in P.K.Dick's The Man in the High Castle.Paper read at the 7th
MESC Conference on " Strategies of Betrayal"Nov 1-3,2001 in Strategies of Betrayal
Conference proceedings. FLAHM Press 2004.

13- Discourses of Utopia after Mannheim and Ricoeur: Some theoretical reflections on the
State of Utopia Today, in Les Cahiers de Tunisie.N 182. Serie lettres. FSHS. 2003

14-The Powers of Fabulation: Alternative Time and Space in Ondaatje's The English Patient
and Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh. Paper presented at the Conference on : " Espaces et
Memoires" March 6-8, 2003 at Beit El Hikma in Espaces et Memoires , ATEP et Maghreb
Diffusion, Tunis 2005.

15- Toward a Rhetoric of Interpretation of the Modern Lyric. Paper read on the "symposium
for lyrical poetry" 8-10 March 2001 published in Cahiers de l'ISLT).

16-Derrida, Freud and the Ambiguities of Hauntology or is Humanism Really Dead?

Published in Cahiers de l’ISLT 2004)

17-Allegories of Laughter: Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews. A paper presented at the

Conference on " Laughter", April 17-19, 2003. Faculte des Lettres , La Manouba. Tunisia
published in MESC Conference proceedings) FLAHM, 2005. ISBN: 978-9973-936-89-9.

18- Desire and Utopia: Edward Said and the Question of the Book published in Utopias, co-
edited edited with Jaleleddine Boussedra .FLAHM Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-9973-085-08-5.

Forthcoming publications:

-The Utopian Impulse in Some contemporary Novels. (monograph)

Unpublished papers/ presentations:

 1- Frontiers of Reading/ Reading frontiers. A paper presented at the Conference on
"Frontiers", April 15-16, 2001. Faculté des Lettres de Kairouan. Université du Centre.
2- Notes towards a Poetics of Reading. A presentation paper read at The Institut Superieur
Ibn Charraf, November 16, 2001.University de Tunis.
3-The Poetics of Survival: George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia , a re- assessment.
Paper presented at the 9 Avril Conference on" Survival" 10-12 April, 2003. FSHS.
4- Introduction to Fiction with special emphasis on Realism. A seminar for undergraduate
students, March 12, 2003. The Institut Supérieur des Sciences Humaines Appliquées de
Gafsa. Universite du Sud.
5-“Cosmopolitanism and Writing in Cervantes’ Don Quixotte”, a paper read at the
27th Mediterranean conference at Castellamare di Stabia, Italy, 2004.
6- Mapping ‘Nowhere’ in William Morris’s News From Nowhere: A paper presented at
the MESC Conference on Utopia(s) November 21-22, 2006 at the FLAHM.
7 -Utopia and Revolution in William Morris’ News from Nowhere, a paper read at the
conference on “Poetry and Revolution”, Hotel Khamsa Corinthia, 2011.

Communication and translation work :

I have covered a number of events including the 2005 WSIS Summit in Tunis.
I have also written a number of articles and op-eds in English for several French and
English speaking online journals.
-Translation review for National Translation Center (2012). Book reviewed: Ibn
Khaldoun and his Readers by Ahmed Abdesslem, PUF1955.
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