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Noureddine Fekir
1 rue Mongi slim
Menzah 5
Bardo2000
Tunisia
(216)22747146
e-mail : fenour64@yahoo.com

Degrees:
• Doctorate in English, University of Tunis, La Mannouba. Dissertation title: E.E.Cummings’s Anti-Poetic (Uni)verse: A Cultural Study of the Mind and the Wor(l)d (Submitted May 2000). (distinction: very good)
• DEA in English(MA) University of Tunis (October 1992)
• Maitrise in English. University of Hassan II, Morocco (June 1986)
Teaching Experience:
. Institut Supérieur de langues de Tunis , Senior Lecturer(2001-2007), Former Head of the
Department of English, ISLT.
. Institut Supérieur de Langues de Tunis, Lecturer(1992-1999)
. Kasserine High School .Teacher of English (1987-1991)
Awards/Grants :
.Obtained a grant from the British Council for a one-month stay at Lancaster University as
a PhD visiting student in the Department of English.(February 1996)
.Obtained a second grant to Lancaster University (December 1998)
-Participated in the International Visitor Program sponsored by the US State Deparment.
Visited Washington DC, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Nebraska high schools(Became
Honorary citizen of Nebraska and Lincoln) and Boston University
Articles/Conferences:
‘The Politics of Irony in Resistance Poetry’ a paper presented at the conference on ‘Irony”
held in Sousse, April 2003 .
‘Survival in African-American Poetry’, December 2002, Faculte des lettres et des sciences socialess de Tunis ( 9 avril
-“The Aesthetics of Verbal Violence in Resistance Poetry” Faculte des lettres et des sciences Sociales de Tunis( Avril( December 2001)
-“Literary Theory and the Teaching of Poetry”, a paper presented at a seminar
on “The lyric” at Mannouba University (8-10March 2001).
-“Self-Reflexive Strategies in Post-Colonial Verse” a paper presented at th