BASSEL ALMASALMEH

 

 

Address:  Damascus, Rukn Eldeen, Assad Eldeen Street,no. 1301.

 

(Mobile): 00963-(0)932051923

 

Email: basselalmasalmeh@gmail.com

 

Date of Birth: 1973                              Nationality: Syrian

 

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

 

 

• PhD in  Modern British Poetry       University of Leicester – Leicester, United Kingdom

Sept. 2003 – Jan. 2008

• MA  in Modern Literature               University of Leicester – Leicester, United Kingdom                  

Sept. 2002 – Sept. 2003

• Diploma in Literary Studies           Damascus University – Damascus, Syria                        

Oct. 1996 – Oct 1997

• BA in English Literature                 Damascus University – Damascus, Syria                                  

Sept. 1991 – Sept. 1994  

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

 

• Translation Director – Syrian General Organization of Books, 2021 until now.
• Translator: of books and magazine articles. 2008 until now.
• University Lecturer – International University for Science and Technology (IUST), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, English Department, September 2013 until now.
• Head of the English Department – Damascus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, English Department, November 2012 – June 2013.
• University Lecturer – Damascus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, English Department March 2008 – present. Responsibilities include teaching third-year students (composition and writing skills), first-year students and fourth-year students (English Poetry), and second-year students at the Open University (reading comprehension skills).
• Teaching Assistant – Damascus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, English Department Sept. 1997 – May 1998 and from Sept. 2001 – Sept. 2002 (responsibilities include teaching seminars to first-year and second-year students and evaluating them according to 20 marks seminars).
• Liaison Officer – Sept. 1998 – Sept. 2000. Responsibilities include translating from English to Arabic, Arabic to English to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Forces (UNDOF) and United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO).

 

 

Publications

 

 

• A Deconstructive Reading of W.B. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” and William Blake’s “London”, Damascus University Journal Vol. 30 – No. 3+4 (2014).
• Poetry and Literary Theory: A Critical Reading of Three Poems Using Deconstruction,

Damascus University Journal Vol. 32 – No. 2 (2016).

Problems of Lyric Poetry, Damascus University Journal Vol. 36 – No. 3 (2020).

 

• Books translated into Arabic:
  1. Harold Bloom, The Art of Reading Poetry, 2009.
  2. David Carter, Literary Theory, 2010.
  3. Peter, Childs, Modernism, 2010.
  4. Graham Allan, Intertextuality, 2011.
  5. Simon Malpas, Postmodernism, 2012.
  6. Ania Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, 2013.
  7. Terry Eagleton, After Theory, 2015.
  8. Catherine Belsey, Culture and the Real, 2017.
  9. Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, 2018.
  10. Selection of Poets, A Pinch of Salt, 2018.
  11. Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem, 2018.
  12. Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 2019.
  13. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 2019.
  14. Terry Eagleton, The Event of Literature, 2021.
  15. Patrick Holm Hogan, Beauty and Sublimity, 2021.
  16. F. James Rutherford, Science for All Americans, 2021. (published electronically)
  17. Dylan Thomas, Selections of Poems, Stories, Broadcasts, 2022.
  18. Yiyun Li, The Vagrants, 2022.
  19. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, 2022.
  20. Virginia Woolf, Night and Day, 2022.
  21. Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, 2022.
  22. Mark Currie, Difference, 2022.
  23. Katie Kitamura, Intimacies, in press.
  24. Stephen Dobyns, Best Words in the Best Order, forthcoming.

 

 

HOBBIES

 

 

Reading, Composing poems. My poems are published on www.poemhunter.com

Alternatively, you can check my website: https://sites.google.com/site/britishpoetry123/

 

 

 

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