CURRICULUM VITAE
Professor Hassan El-Banna Mustafa Ezz El-Din
السيرة الذاتيّة للدكتور حسن البنّا عز لدين
Work Address
Zagazig University
College of Arts
Dept. of Arabic Language & Literature
E-mail: hbanna35@hotmail.com
CURRENT POSITION
2004- Professor of Arabic Literature and Modern Literary Criticism, Zagazig
University, Egypt.
EDUCATION
1986 Ph. D. with First Honors, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Dissertation:
"Structural Analysis of the Pre-Islamic Poem: An Applied Study."
1982 M.A. in TAFL (Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language); The American
University in Cairo. Thesis: "Language Levels in Yusuf Idris'
Writings."
1978 M.A. with Highest Distinction, Ain Shams University; Cairo, Egypt, Thesis
"The Theme of Tayf and Khayal in Arabic Poetry till the End of 4th
Century A.H."
1974 B.A. with High Distinction, Ain Shams University; Cairo, Egypt. Arabic
Language & Literature.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND EXPERIENCE
1994-04 Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Zagazig University, Egypt.
1998-04 Visiting Professor of Arabic Literature, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
1987-94 Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Zagazig University, Egypt.
1993-94 Visiting Professor in Classical and Modern Arabic Literature, The
American University in Cairo (part-time).
1991-92 Visiting Professor in Arabic Language and Literature (classical & modern),
The University of Rochester, N. Y., U.S.A.
1989-91 Visiting Professor in Arabic Language and Literature, The University of
Qatar.
April-May,1989 Visiting Professor in Arabic Lang. and Lit., Sanaa University,
Yemen.
1982-85 Instructor of Arabic as a Foreign Language, The American University in
Cairo, Eyypt (part-time).
1978-80 Instructor of Arabic as a Foreign Language, CASA (Center for Arabic
Study Abroad), The American University in Cairo, Egypt, (part-time).
1976-86 Instructor of Arabic Language and Literature, Zagazig University, Egypt.
1975-77 Technical editor, Academy of the Arabic Language, Cairo, Egypt.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
1991-92 Fulbright Scholarship, The University of Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A.
1978-81 TAFL Program Fellowship, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
1978-81 Ford Foundation Scholarship, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
1971-74 Award of Distinction, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English - Fluent
German - Good
French - Reading ability for Research.
Persian - Reading ability for Research & Translation.
EXPERIENCE ABROAD: Research, Lectures, and Conferences
1998 Jordan Presented a paper at the Yarmouk University Literary Criticism Symposium.
1998 Oxford University Research for one month.
1997 London University Research for one month.
1995 Indiana University Two months research grant.
1991-92 U.S.A. Presented papers at the Middle East studies Association & the American Oriental Society annual meetings.
1987 Jordan Presented a paper at the Yarmouk University Literary Criticism Symposium.
1987 The Netherlands Lecture Tour at Ameterdam University, Leiden University, and Neimegen University.
MAIN COURSES TAUGHT
Pre-Islamic Literature (in Arabic and English).
Umayyad, Abbasid, Andalusian Literature (in Arabic and English).
Modern Arabic Literature (in Arabic and English).
Islamic Studies (Sciences of Quran, Hadith).
Research Methods (Graduate and Undergraduate).
Translation (from English into Arabic).
THESIS SUPERVISION
1992-94 MA thesis on the topic of Al-‘Arjiyy [an early Islamic poet], A Linguistic Study of his Poetry, by Sayyed ‘Ubaid, Zagazig University, Egypt.
1992-94 MA thesis on the topic of Ghada As-Samman Her Art of Fiction, by Miraal At-Tahaawi, Zagazig University, Egypt.
1992-94 Ph. D. thesis on the topic of The poetry of banu Bakr in the Jahiliyyah and the Advent of Islam: Editing and Study, by Hosam Ahmed Aly, Zagazig University, Egypt.
1993-95 Ph. D. thesis on the topic of The poetry of Naqaaid [Umayyad Poetry]: A Study of A Literary Tradition, by Abdel Fattah Ahmed Yusuf, Zagazig University, Egypt.
1996-00 MA thesis on the topic of Stars and Planets in Modern Arabic Poetry 1900-1950, by Aminah Al-Mesher, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
1998-03 MA thesis on the topic of The Image of the Man in Arabic Women’s Poetry from the pre-Islamic era to the end of the 2nd century Hijrah, by Omar Al-Seif, , King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
1999-03 MA thesis on the topic of The Modern Arabic female Autobiogaphy: A Study of Selected Examples, by Amal Al-Tamimi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
PUBLICATIONS
Books in Arabic
Poetics and Culture: The Concept of Literary Consciousness and its Features in Classical Arabic Literature( Al-Shi'riyyah wa Al-Thaqafa: Mafhum Al-Wa'y Al-Kitabi wa Malamih fi Al-Shi'r Al-'Arabi Al-Qadim), (Beirut and Casa Blanca: Al-Markaz Al-Thaqafi Al,'Arabi, 2003).
The Concept of Textual Awareness in Literary Criticism: Studies and Critical Reviews (Mafhum Al-Wa'y Al-Nassi: Diraasaat wa Muraja'aat Naqdiyyah) (Cairo: Al-Hadara Publishing, 2003).
Classical Arabic Poetry in the Light of Reception Theory and Oral Tradition Theory: The Case of Dhu-Rummah (Al-Shi'r Al-'Arabi Al-Qadim fi Daw’ Nazariyyat Al-Talaqqi wa Al-Nazariyyah Al-Shafawiyyah: Dhu-Rummah Namudhajan) (Cairo: Ain for Humanities and Social Studies, 2001).
The Departing Women Poem in Pre-Islamic Poetry: A Study in the Aesthetics of Oral Poetry (Qasidat Al-Za`aa'in fi Al-Shi`r Al-Jaahili: Diraasah fi Jamaaliyyat al-Shi`r al-Shifaahi) (Ein for Human and Social Studies, Cairo: Rotaprint Press, 1993; 2nd edition, Dar al-Mufradaat, Riyadh, 1998).
Words and Things:Tthe Structural Analysis of Pre-Islamic Atlal Poem, A Critical Study (Al-Kalimaat wa al-Ashyaa'), 2nd edition, (Beirut: Dar Al-Manaahil for printing, publishing and distribution , 1989).
The Dream-Phantom Motif in Classical Poetry ( Al-Tayf wa Al-Khayaal fi al-Shi`r al-`Arabi al-Qadim), 3rd edition, (Beirut: Dar Al-Manaahil, 1994).
Edited Volume in English
Orientalist Essays: An Anthology of Arabic Literary Criticism in English (Cairo: Dar al-Fikr al-`Arabi, 1989).
Articles in Arabic
"The Theory of Reception and its Applications in Modern Arabic Literary Criticism," A referencial research for professorship, Cairo 2004.
"The Cultural Dimension in the Critique of Arabic Literature 1975-2000," in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference for Literary Criticism, Cairo (2000), published in Cairo (2003), vol. 2, pp. 129-216.
"Pre-Islamic Poetry and Modern Literary Research," as an Introduction for the Translation of S. Stetkevych's The Literature of Politics and The Politics of Literature (Cairo, 1998), pp. 5-54.
“Paul Ricoeur: His Literary Merit and Theory of Interpretation,” forthcoming in the proceedings of the First International Conference for Literary Criticism (October 1997), Cairo.
“Dhu ar-Rummah and His Poetry between Reception and Discovery,” a paper presented to the 7th conference of Literary Criticism, Yarmouk University (July 1998), forthcoming in Fusul, Cairo.
"Jamaliyyaat al-Zaman fi al-Shi`r: Namudhaj al-Nasib fi al-Qasidah al-Jahiliyyah, Madkhal Muqaaran," ("The Aesthetics of Time in Poetry: The Case of Nasib in Pre-Islamic Poetry, A Comparative Approach"), Alif, the Journal of Comparative Poetics, 9(1989) : 103-136.
"Al-Shakhsiyyah al-Misriyyah `inda Yusuf Idris: Dirasah fi Mustawayaat al-Lughah," ("The Egyptian Character in Yusuf Idris: A Study in Levels of Language"), Adab wa Naqd, Cairo, Dec., & Jan., 1988-89, pp. 29-46.
"Language and Technique in the Short Story and the Novel: An Example from Yusuf Idris," Fusul, the Journal of Literary Criticism, 5: 1(1984) : 131-151.
"The Wooden Horse of Ambigious Smile: Foreign Views in Najib Mahfouz'sWorks," Ibdaa`, 12 (1992) : 53-61.
Article in English
"No Solace for the Heart: the Motif of the Departing Women in Pre-Islamic Battle Ode" in S. Stetkevych's Reorientations: Arabic/Persian Poetry, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1993, pp. 166-81.
Book Reviews and Review Articles
In Arabic
Nazir Al-‘Azmah. Sifr al-‘Anqaa: Hafriyyah Thaqaafiyyah (The Book of the Phoenix: Cultural Archeology) (Damascus, 1996). Al-Hayat Newspaper, Beirut, August, 1997.
Wahb A. Rumiyyah. Shi`runa al-Qadiim wa al-Naqd al-Jadiid (Our ClassicalPoetry and Modern Criticism)"(`Aalam al-Ma`rifah, Kuwait, 1996), Al-Riyadh Newspaper, Jan. 16, 1997.
Fadl al-`Ammaari. Hammad al-Raawiyah (Riyadh, 1996), Al-Riyadh Newspaper, Dec., 13, 1996, and Jan., 2, 1997.
`Abdallah Muhammad al-Ghadhdhami's Al-Mar'ah wa Al-Lugha (Woman and Language, (Beirut, 1996), Al-Riyadh Newspaper, Sep. 26, and Oct. 17, and 31, and Nov.11, and 28, 1996.
Jaroslav Stetkevych. The Zephyrs of Najd (The University of Chicago Press,1993), Al-Riyadh Newspaper, April 4, and May 23, and June 13, 1996.
Abd al-Rahman Al-Samaa`il. Al-Mu`aaradaat al-Sh`riyyah, (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1994), `Alamaat, Jan. 1996.
Kamal Abu Deeb. Al-Ru'a al-Muqanna`ah (The Masked Visions:Towards a Structural study of Pre-Islamic Poetry) (General Egyptian Book Oganization, 1986), Fusul, 7: 1-2(1986-7) :274-80.
"Five Studies on Classical Arabic Poetry," Fusul, 5:1(1984) :293-305.
Mary C. Bateson. Structural Continuity in Poetry: A Linguisttic Study of Five Pre-Islamic Odes, (Paris, 1970), Fusul, 14:2(1984): 306-312.
"A Presentation of Four Articles on Theoritical Criticism" (from Poetics, Mar. and Nov., 1983,) Fusul, 4:3(1984): 229-36.
Andras Hamori. On the Art of Medieval Arabic Literature, (Princeton, 1974) Fusul, 1:2(1981): 251-254.
Translations (from English into Arabic)
Jaroslav Stetkevych. The Zephyrs of Najd:The poetics of Nostalgia in Classical Arabic Nasib (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993). King Faisal Center for Islamic Researches, Riyadh, 2004.
Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi. The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2003). In progress under contract with Al-Majlis al-A`laa lil-Thaqafa, Cairo, 2004.
Mohammed Arkoun. “The Notion of Revelation From Ahl al-Kitab to the Societies of the Book,” Die Welt des Islam XXVIII (1988), pp. 82-89. Translated with a lengthy introduction. Forthcoming in Al-Fikr Al-‘Alamiyy, Beirut.
Suzanne P. Stetkevych. The Literature of Politics and The Politics of Literature (selected articles), with a lengthy study by the translator on "Pre-Islamic Poetry and Modern Criticism" The General Egyptian Book Organization (GEBO)1998.
Eric A. Havelock. The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present, (New Haven and London, Yale University, 1986). Chapters 1&2 in Majallat Al-Funuun Al-Sha’biyyah, The General Egyptian Book Organization (GEBO), no. 52, 1996, pp. 31-42.
Walter Ong. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, (London, Methuen, 1982), with an introductoryy study on "The Oral Theory and Arabic Literature,” `Alam al-Ma`rifa, Kuwait, 1994.
Walter Ong. "Dialectic of Aural and Objective Correlatives," Fusul, 10:1-2(1991): 228-238.
H. Verdaasdonk. "Conceptions of Literatures as Frames?" (Poetics, 11, 1982), Fusul, 6:1 (1986) :34-45.
A. Eastop. "Discourse as Ideology," from his Poetry as Discourse (Methuen, 1983), Fusul, 5:3 (1985) :97-103.
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