Curriculum Vitae
Hanan Muzaffar
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Arts, Kuwait University
Office: 2498-2961
Fax: 2481-2534
Email: mail@drhanan.com
Web: http://drhanan.com
Education:
1997 - 2000 Ph.D. English, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA.
1996 - 1997 M.A. English, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA
1984 - 1989 B.A. English, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Doctoral Dissertation:
One of the strongest arguments that try to explain the oppression of
women is that which links this oppression with the Western belief in observing
the world in terms of binary oppositions. In this dissertation I present
four phases towards the disruption of the system of binary oppositions,
demonstrate how literature manifests these phases, and analyze their
implications for literary theory and criticism.
Committee: Patrick Murphy, chair; Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés; Martha
Bower.
Professional Experience:
2003 –
2004 Head
of Student Guidance Office
2002 –
2003 Assistant
Head of Student Guidance Office
2000 – present Assistant
Professor, Kuwait University
1989 –
1995
Teacher of English, Ministry of Education, Kuwait
Subjects Taught:
Undergraduate Classes: Literary Theory & Criticism, Gender &
Women’s Studies, Modern Novel, Comparative Literature, Literature & Arts,
American Literary History & Culture
Graduate School: Theories & Methods in Comparative Literature,
Literature & Gender
Conference Presentations:
March 2010: “Votes and Voices: Emergent Kuwaiti
Novelists Post Women’s Rights,”
International Journal of Arts & Sciences (IJAS)
Conference for Academic Disciplines, Orlando, Florida.
May 2009: “Teaching Mrs Dalloway at Kuwait University,”
International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference, Toronto, Canada.
May 2008: "Middlesex: Time, Place, Gender," Cultural Studies
Association, New York, NY, USA.
November 2007: "Women's Ways of Knowing in Toni Morrison's
Novels," Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, OH, USA.
February 2006: "L'ecriture Feminie in the Hands
of Men: Cunningham Rewrites Woolf," SW/TX Popular Culture
Association and American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, USA
August 2004: "Wrongs
To Be Righted": A Study of Frances E. W. Harper's Feminist(ic)
Writings," Hawaii International Conference, Hawaii, USA.
August 2004: "August
Wilson Reconstructs Black History: The Counternarratives of History in Joe
Turner's Come and Gone, MaRainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano
Lesson," Hawaii International Conference, Hawaii, USA.
March 2000: " 'One
Foot in Either Door:' Japanese-Americans and the Construction of Identity in
Julia Shigekuni's A Bridge Between Us," MELUS 2000, New
Orleans, USA.
March 1999: "Suicide
and Insanity in Su Tong's Raise the Red Lantern and Kate Chopin's The
Awakening," EGO Conference, Indiana, PA, USA.
March 1998: "Robin's
Silence in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood," EGO Conference,
Indiana, PA, USA.
February 1998: " 'their
light step upon the earth' Alice Walker and the Native American Ecofeminist,"
Conference Celebrating African Americans, Indiana, PA, USA.
Published Work:
July 2011: " ‘Do you surprise? Do you shock? Do you have a choice?’:
Assuming the Feminine Role: Subverting the Patriarchal System,” Women’s
Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal 40.5 (July 2011)
June 2005: "Violence
as Proof of Existence: Joyce Carol Oates and the Construction of Shelley the
Schizoid," The American Journal of Psychoanalysis 65.2
(June 2005): 189-96.
Spring 2004: "August
Wilson Reconstructs Black History: The Counternarratives of History in Joe
Turner's Come and Gone, MaRainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano
Lesson," Griot: Official Journal on Afro-American
Studies 23.1 (Spring 2004): 73-80.