Dr. Nimer Abu Zahra

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Dr. Nimer Abu Zahra

Teaching staff . Associate Prof, Hebron University

Biography

Associate Professor, English Dept., Hebron University, Palestine.

Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses include Literature in the classroom, Postmodern American Literature, American literature, Drama, Novel and Research Writing. 

 

Visiting Professor of American Literature, Georgia Perimeter College.

 

Associate Professor, English Department, Clark Atlanta University

Teaching Survey of American Literature (416/515) graduate Courses; United States Writers (315/316), Literary Forms (210), World Literature (201/ 202), and College Composition (105/106) with emphasis on multi-paragraph essays which reflect the strategies of description/narration, cause and effect, critique or evaluation, comparison/contrast, example/illustration, extended definition, classification, and the research paper, as well as to prepare effective business letters and resumes. Also, teaching RGTE 199 (Regents’ Test Preparation). The course is designed to help students successfully complete the essay portion of The State of Georgia Regents’ Exam. It teaches the fundamentals of composition with emphasis on timed writing. 

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Hebron University, P.O.Box: 40, Hebron, West-Bank, Palestine.

Education

EDUCATION

 

July 1993                     Doctor of Arts in English

                                    Clark Atlanta University

Dissertation: Faulkner’s Women: Social and Familial Conflicts in

The Sound and the Fury, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!

 

December 1988           Master of Arts in English

                                                Atlanta University                                                                                                                                                        

Thesis: Varieties of Symbolism in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

 

 

December 1985           Bachelor of Arts in English

                                    Yarmouk University, Jordan


Academic and Administrative Experience

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 

 

Sept. 2005- Present, Associate Professor, English Dept, Hebron University, Palestine.

Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses include Literature in the classroom, Postmodern American Literature, American literature, Drama, Novel and Research Writing. 

 

Summer 2004 Visiting Professor of American Literature, Georgia Perimeter College.

 

2002- Summer 2005 Associate Professor, English Department, Clark Atlanta University

Teaching Survey of American Literature (416/515) graduate Courses; United States Writers (315/316), Literary Forms (210), World Literature (201/ 202), and College Composition (105/106) with emphasis on multi-paragraph essays which reflect the strategies of description/narration, cause and effect, critique or evaluation, comparison/contrast, example/illustration, extended definition, classification, and the research paper, as well as to prepare effective business letters and resumes. Also, teaching RGTE 199 (Regents’ Test Preparation). The course is designed to help students successfully complete the essay portion of The State of Georgia Regents’ Exam. It teaches the fundamentals of composition with emphasis on timed writing. 

  

1999-April 2004 Educational Testing Service (ETS), Princeton, NJ. Trained and certified  to score essays,  evaluating the overall thinking and writing according to ETS criteria.. Part-time On-line holistic evaluator and scorer of the two analytical essays- (argument and issue) - of the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT). 

 

1995-2002       Assistant Professor, English Department

                        Clark Atlanta University

                        Atlanta, Georgia

 

Teaching Survey of American Literature (515/416) Graduate Courses; United States Writers (315/316), Literary Forms (210), World Literature (201,202), Arabic (201/202), and College Composition (105/106)

 

1989-1990                   Instructor of English as a Foreign Language

                                    King Saud University

                                    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

1985-1986                                      High School Teacher of English as a Second Language

Dura, Palestine


Publications

PUBLICATIONS/TRANSLATIONS
 

 

 

 

    Abuzahra, Nimer, Bessan Badareen. The Archetypal Criticism in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.  Journal of Creative Practices in Language Learning and Teaching (CPLT) Volume 5, Number 1, 2017.   https://kedah.uitm.edu.my/CPLT/images/stories/v5n1/Article4.pdf     

 

 Abuzahra,  Nimer, Nawras Imraish. The Industrial Revolution Impact on Families as Seen in Hard Times.  Studies in linguistics and Literature. Vol. I. (2017). http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/sll/article/view/972

 

 

  Abuzahra nimer, Rami Salahat. Analyzing Iago's Speech in Shakespeare's Othello.JELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics) Vol. 2(2), 2018www.ijeltal.orge-ISSN: 2527-8746; p-ISSN: 2527-6492.

 

Abuzahra, Nimer. “The Sense of Identity in Naipaul's One Out of Many and Yerziska's America and I”

http://www.the-criterion.com/V6/n2/069.pdf  

   

 Farrah, M. Nimer Abuzahra. Blended Learning in the Literary Criticism Course. 

an -Najah Univ. J. Res. (Humanities). Vol. 32(6), 2018. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323881898_Blended_Learning_in_the_Literary_Criticism_Course


Hamada Dawood , Nimer  Abuzahra , Mohammed Farrah. Shylock’s Speech in The Merchant of Venice: Critical Discourse Analysis. http://journals.khuisf.ac.ir/ijrelt/browse.php?a_code=A-10-151-1&sid=1&slc_lang=en  

 

Abuzahra, Nimer, Mohammed Farrah. “Using Short Stories in the EFL Classroom”

http://resportal.iugaza.edu.ps/articles/H12%20Vol.%2024,%20No.1.pdf

 

Abuzahra, Nimer. The  Impact  of Dream  in  Nathaniel  Hawthorne’s Young  Goodman Brown. 

Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELALhttp://www.rjelal.comVol.3.Issue.1.2015).   

 

 
Abuzahra, Nimer,  Mohammed Farah, Sarah Zalloum 

“Using Cartoon in Language Classroom from a Constructivist Point of View”  The Arab World English Journal (Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on CALL No.3 July 2016.)
 

BOOKS:

Abuzahra, Nimer. Langston Hughes: An Introduction and Poems. Jerusalem: Al Sharq Publication Company, 2001.

 

I have been a major contributor as a translator and editor to The Global Literature. Individual titles:

 

“Moans in Front of the Visa Window,” published in Global Literature: One World, Many Voices, Vol. II. Chicago, IL. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998.

 

“Denial,” published in Global Literature, Vol. II, 1998.

 

“The Pearl,” published in Global Literature, Vol. II, 1998.

 

“The Romance of Antarah,” published in Global Literature: One World, Many Voices, Vol. I. Chicago, IL. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997.

 

From The Koran “The Surah of Women,”   published in the above text.

 

“Ghazal Poetry,” published in Global Literature, Vol. I, 1997.

 

“Introduction to Arabic Literature,” published in Instructor's Guide, Clark Atlanta University Press, 1994.

"The Ghazal Lyric," published in the Instructor's Guide, Clark Atlanta University Press, 1994.

"The Sultan's Dilemma," published in the Instructor's Guide, Clark Atlanta University Press, 1994.

 

"Modern Arabic Poetry: Poems after Beirut and "A Grave for New York," published in the Instructor's Guide, Clark Atlanta University Press, 1994.

 

"Background and Strategies about Season of Migration to the North," published in the Instructor's Guide, Clark Atlanta University Press, 1994.

 

"Background and Strategies about Short Stories by Arab Women Writers," published in the

Instructor's Guide, Clark Atlanta University   Press, 1994.

 


Research Interests

Literature 


Courses Schedule

# Course No. Course Name Class No. Room Time
1 22323 The Novel 1 o305 (10:50-10:00) الSun,الTue,الThu
2 22324 History of American Literature 1 o302 (14:50-14:00) الSun,الTue,الThu
3 22423 Shakespeare 1 o301 (09:20-08:00) الMon,الWed
4 22445 Drama 3 o304 (13:50-13:00) الSun,الTue,الThu
5 22771 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 1 o302 (17:50-15:00) الTue