Academic Staff

                                        Nafeesa Ismail Haji
Nafeesa Ismail Haji None
Assistant Prof.
Criticisim and Contemporary Kurdish Short story
  • In (2016) PhD in Kurdish studies, University of Exeter, The UK.
    In (2008) M. A. in Kurdish Criticisim, University of Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan.
    In (2003) B. A. in Language and Kurdish Litterature, University of Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan.
    in (1991) D. M. in Teachers Institute, Iraqi Kurdistan.

  • Haji, N. I. (2009) Critical Interttextuality: The Critical text ‘Migration in a poem which the wind rushes before leaves, by Arif Hito as example, Academic Journal of University of Dohuk, Vol. 12, no: 1
    Haji, N. I. (2011) The Poetic of Displacement in the Short story ‘Hunting of the Sun’ by Jalal Mustafa, Academic Journal of University of Dohuk, Vol. 14, no: 2.
    Haji, N. I. (2018) Dried Man: Science Fiction and Literary Features, Humanities Journal of University of Zakho, Vol. 6, no: 1, part 1.
    Haji, N. I. (2019) Humanitarian of Things in The Novel of ”atra” by Deyar Eredi, Academic Journal of University of Dohuk, Vol. 22, no:1.
    Haji, N. I. and Breendar, N. A. (2021) ‘Eyes of the Dream’ as a First Meta- Narration in the Kurdish Short Story in Bahdinan, Humanities Journal of University of Zakho, Vol. 9, no: 2,
    Haji, N. I. (2022) The Text ‘Black Box’ between Novel and Autobiography, Academic Journal of University of Dohuk, Vol. 25, no:1.

  • Criticism and Kurdish criticism
    Modern and Contemporary Kurdish Literature
    Short story and Novel
    Theory of genres
    Mixing and overlapping genres
    Memory and trauma

  • Modules taught, B. A., M. A. and D. Litt.
    Research Methods
    Theory of Literature
    Theories of Criticism
    Applied criticism
    Modern criticism
    Literary genres

  • I have been lead supervisor for the following completed theses:
    Imagining the political events in Southern Kurdistan (2014-2018) in contemporary poetry in Bahdinan. M.A. (2020-2021) Student: Karzan Ahmed Abdulrahman
    Analysis of novels by Sabri Salivani in the light of cultural criticism. M. A. (2021-2022) Student: Yusuf Ali Abdulrahman.
    Science Fiction: The novels ‘Cheap Man’ and ‘Dried Man’ as examples. M. A. (2021-2022) Student: Sohaib Michael Aziz

  • 1- Participation in the PGR conference of PhD students in Exeter University in the UK in 2013
    2- Presentation of a paper in Doctoral Workshop, Middle Eastern Literatures: local and global contexts. Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (University of Exeter) in collaboration with the Faculty of Oriental Studies (University of Oxford), Saturday 7th and 8th June 2014. The title of the paper was ‘Between the Totality of the Novel and the Limitation of the Short Story: The Short Story in Badinan
    3- Presentation of a paper in the Mesnet Early Career Middle Eastern Studies Researcher Workshop and Academic Conference in 2015. Co-organized by the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter & the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) with funding from the British Academy. The title of the paper was ‘Intertextuality as Strategies of Avoiding Political and Social Censorships in the Kurdish Short Story in Iraqi Kurdistan after 1991
    4- Presentation a paper in the in the second international conference of University of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2018. The title of the paper was: Dried Man: Science Fiction and Literary Features.
    5- Participation in the international conference of Gender equality and women’s empowerment strategies in Kurdistan University in 2021.
    6- Participation in the symposium of ‘Mother Language is an important wealth’ in 2022, in the University of Dohuk.
    7- Participation in the workshop of ‘Establishing a standard exam for the Kurdish Language’, in 2023 in University of Dohuk.
    8- Presenting a workshop entitled Literary Text between the Writer and the Critic ‘in 2023, in the University of Dohuk.

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      nafeesahaji@ uod.ac

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