Yasmine Shamma
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Professor of Literature
University of Hull
2024 - Present




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Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature
University of Reading
2019 - 2024

Courses Taught
Modern Literature (Masters Module)
Modern Literary Feminisms (Masters Module)
EN2WGI: Writing, Gender, and Identity. Co-convener
EN3MT: #MeToo: Women's Writing as Resistance  (New Contribution to Part 3 Modules)*
EN3RR: Roots and Routes: Migration on Contemporary World Literature (New Contribution to Part 3 Modules)*
EN3PE: Postcolonal Ecopoetics (New Contribution to Part 3 Modules)*
EN3AP: Contemporary Poetry (Part 3 Module)
EN1TCL: Twentieth Century American Literature (Part 1 Module)
EN1PE: Poetry in English (Part 1 module)

                         *Courses I created and implemented

Service
Diversity and Inclusion Lead for School of Languages and Literatures
PhD, Masters, and Undergraduate Thesis Supervision
SLL Anti-Racism Committee co-creator

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Co-FUND WIRL Research Fellow in English
Durham University
2017 - 2019

Appointmented as research fellow in English Department and Institute of Advanced Studies. This fellowship generously supported my work titled Voices from the Camps, which included extensive fieldwork in refugee camps.
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Assistant Professor of American Literature
Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Peace, Justice, and Human Rights

Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
2014 - 2017

 Courses Taught
AML2010: Honors American Literature Beginnings to 1865
AML2020: Honors American Literature 1865 -1945
LIT2010:    Honors Interpretations of Fiction
LIT4930:    Honors 20th Century Women’s Poetry*
LIT4434:    Honors Literature and the Environment
LIT4930:    Honors Literature and the Environment: New York City*
AML4302: Honors Major American Author: "Visions and Revisions:" T.S. Eliot*
LIT4930:    Honors Major Irish Author: "Stitching and Unstitching": W.B Yeats
LIT4383:    Women’s Literature: American Women’s Poetry*
 IDS4930:   Reading and Writing Poetry
                 *Courses I created and Implemented

Service
Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Review. 2016 - 2017.
Digital Humanities Research Supervisor. 2015 - 2017.
Search Committee, Dean of Honors College. 2015 - 2016.
Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Printmaking, College of Arts and Sciences. 2015 - 2016.
Writing Committee. 2014 - 2015; 2015 - 2016.
Ad Hoc Committee for Designing Bachelor of Science Degree. 2015.
American Studies Concentration Advisory Board. 2014 - 2017.
English Literature Concentration Advisory Board. 2014 - 2017.
Philosophy Concentration Advisory Board. 2016 - 2017.
Writing Concentration Advisory Board. 2016 - 2017.
American Literature Curriculum Development. 2014 - 2017.
College Representative, South Florida Culture Committee. 2015 - 2017.
College Representative, STEAM Initiative. 2014 - 2017.
Flaglar Scholarship Interviewer and Assessor. 2015.

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Stipendiary Lecturer in English Literature
Brasenose College, Oxford University
2012 - 2014

Courses Offered
Paper 1: Introduction to Literary Studies  (Classes, Tutorials and Lectures)
Introduction to Poetry (Classes)
Paper 4a: Victorian Literature (Classes and Tutorials)
Paper 4b: Modern Literature (Classes and Tutorials)
Paper 7: Yeats  (Tutorials)
Paper 8: The Modern Sonnet

Service
Graduate (MSt.) Dissertation Examiner. 2013; 2014.
Masters Dissertation Examiner, Faculty of French, Oxford.
Senior Dissertation Supervisor, Various Colleges, Oxford.
Senior Dissertation Examiner, Faculty of English, Oxford.
Open Day / Access Activities: English Faculty. 2013; 2014.
Open Day Lecturer and Presenter: Brasenose College 2012; 2013; 2014.
Admissions: Assessor and Interviewer for English. 2011-2014

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Stipendiary Lecturer in English Literature
St. Catherine's College, Oxford University
2010 - 2014

Courses Taught
​Paper 1: Introduction to Literary Studies  (Classes, Tutorials and Lectures)
Introduction to Poetry (Classes)
Paper 7: Yeats  (Tutorials)
Paper 8: The New York Schools
                Hip Hop as Poetry
                Modern Poetry: Frost and Bishop
                Women’s Literature
                Beatnik Literature
                Postcolonial Poetry
                Modern American Poetry

Service
​ Admissions: St. Catherine’s Interviewer for English. 2013
​ Access Activities and Presentations: St. Catherine’s College. 2011.
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