Khawla BENDJEMIL

Research Keywords: 
Literary theories, Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism, world literature, TEFL
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Lecturer Class A
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Campus: Nouveau Campus
  • bendjemil.khawla@univ-guelma.dz

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Khawla A. BENDJEMIL holds a PhD degree in English Literature and Civilisation from the University of Abou El Kacem Saadallah, Algiers 2. Her MA degree is in English literature, from the University of Jordan. She is now a lecturer of English at the department of Letters and English at the University of 08 May 1945, Guelma, Algeria. She gives lectures in different modules for both BA and MA levels. She spent a year teaching Arabic for college students at Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville as a Fulbright visiting scholar for the academic year 2015-2016. She also took graduate classes of TESL, Creative Writing, Literary theory, Modern Literary Criticism, Black Diasporic Feminisms and Studies in Women, Language and Literature. She has also been participating at different national and international conferences in Algeria, Turkey, Romania, and the U.S.A. In addition, she has organized and participated at different cultural and scientific events at the universities she studied and worked at. Moreover, she was a member of two research projects: CNEPRU (PNR) project: Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes towards Culture in the Faculty of Letters and Languages at Guelma University: The Implications on the Teaching and Learning Process (2015-2018); and the Erasmus project: EL@N “Modernisation de l’enseignement des langues dans les centres de langues des universités algériennes” (2019-2022). She was a visiting scholar at the University of Pitesti, Romania as part of a postdoctoral research program during the fall semester of 2022. Her research interests focus on literary theories, contemporary world literature, environment and literature, ecocriticism, teaching literature, blended and online teaching, and TEFL.