Mohammed A. Rawashdeh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English Literature,

Department of English Language and Literature,

Faculty of Arts, Yarmouk University

E-mail: rawashdah@yu.edu.jo        Cell Phone #: +962 770 491 633

Education

Academic Experience

• 2019 – present time: Faculty member
•             Department of English Language and Literature
•             Yarmouk University, Jordan
•  2017 – 2019: Faculty member
•              Department of English Language and Literature  
•              Al-Jouf University, Saudi Arabia
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•  2013 –2017: Faculty member
•              Department of English Language and
•              Literature, Yarmouk University, Jordan
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•  2010 – 2013: Faculty member
•               Department of English Language and Literature,
•               University of Ha’il, KSA
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• 2001 – 2010: Faculty member
•            Department of English Language and Literature,
•            Yarmouk University, Jordan.
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• 1997 – 2000: Teaching Assistant (TA)
•             Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
•             {taught Freshman writing courses}
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• 1990 – 1992: School Teacher
•             Yarmouk University Model School,
•             Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.

Academic Activities / Lectures, workshops & vetting

•  “The Establishment and Development of the Department of English Language and Literature at Yarmouk University”, a lecture at Qumeim’s Comprehensive High School for Females.
• “Applied English Track in the Department of English Language and Literature / Yarmouk University”, a lecture at Fatimatu Azzahra Comprehensive School for Females.
• “Why We Learn English” lecture at Qumeim’s Primary School for Males.
• “English for Beginners”, workshop at Jouf University, Saudi Arabia.
• “Jouf University Student Research Contest”, Referee

Attended Workshops

• “Filling out the Term Review Report”, Dec. 23^rd, 2025.
• “Designing Asynchronous Interactive Activities”, Dec. 4^th, 2025.
• “Designing Course Syllabus and Portfolio”, Dec. 2^nd, 2025.
• “Strategic Planning- Level 2”, April15^th, 2025.
• Strategic Planning-Level 1”, April 13^th, 2025.
• “Cyber Security”, March 9^th, 2025.
• “Placement of Academic Programs”, Nov. 19^th 2024.
• “Plagiarism Detection Using Turnitin Software”, Oct. 29^th, 2023.
• “Academic Research and Scholarly Publishing”, Feb. 2022.
• “Preparation of Course Syllabi and Study Plans”, Feb. 2022.
• “International Databases”, Feb. 2022.
• “International Ranking Systems”, Feb. 2022.
• “Ethics of Faculty Members”, Feb. 2022.
• “Teaching Strategies”, Feb. 2022.
• “Library Resources”, Feb. 2022.
• “Learning Management Systems (Moodle)”, Feb. 2022.
• “YU Laws, Regulations, and Instructions”, Feb. 2022.
• “Preparation for International Projects”, Feb. 2022.
• “Assessment and Examination”, Feb. 2022.
• “Scientific paper Preparation and Publication”, Feb. 2022.
• “Personal Website management”, Feb. 2022.
• “National Research Databases”, Feb. 2022.
• “Google Scholar and ResearchGate”, Feb. 2022.
• “E-Learning (Level 1) / Using Moodle”, Summer Term, 2020.
• “E-Learning (Level 2) / Using Moodle” Summer Term, 2020.
• “E-Learning and Google Application”, Summer Term, 2020.
• “Web of Science and EndNote Training Workshop”, Thomson Reuters, March 1^st 2017
• “Library Resources and International Databases”, April 24^th 2017.
• “E-Learning”, Second Semester 2015 / 2016.
• “Managing Faculty Member Web Site”, Second Semester 2015 / 2016.
• “E-Learning”, First Semester 2013 / 2014.
• “Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet”, May 2002.
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Professional Society Membership / Scholarly Journal Reviewer

• Journal of Modern Languages and Literature / Yarmouk University Press
• Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences / Jordan University Press
• Arab Journal for Humanities / Kuwait University Press
• Journal of Human Sciences / University of Bahrain
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Appreciation Letters

From

• The Faculty of Science and Literature / Jouf University, Saudi Arabia for participating in the development of the Faculty’s Web Site.
• The Faculty of Science and Literature / Jouf University, Saudi Arabia for giving a workshop on learning English language
• Jouf University, Saudi Arabia for serving as a referee for the “Student Research Contest”
• Students

Community Service Activities & Membership

• Founding member of The Wastiyyah Voluntary Association for Student Welfare
• Regular contributor to The Needy Female Student Fund at Yarmouk University.

·       Member of “Baitu Al-Hekma Association for Supporting Cancer Patients”

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

1-“The Plastic Theater: Music and Lighting in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman” / Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature, Accepted.

2-“Staging the Fragility of Eastern Identity in English Drama: A literary Study with Linguistic Insights” / World Journal of English Language, 2026.

3-“Oriental Characters on the English Stage: A Product of Misunderstanding?” / Theory and Practice in English Language, 2026.

4-“Postmodern Cultural Fragmentation and Subjectivity in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party” / World Journal of English Language, 2026.

5-“Friendship: Perspectives from Two Modern Plays” / Theory and Practice in English Language, 2022.

6-“Place, Space and Identity in Modern Drama: Analysis of four Selected Plays” / The  Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, 2020. 

7-“Srinivas Aravamudan.  Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of  the Novel”/ Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 2013.

8-“Power and Virtue in Elkanah Settle’s Ibrahim” / Miscelánea: A Journal of Englis and American Studies, 2013.

9-“‘No black stream runs here’: Glorious East in Elkanah Settle's Ibrahim, The Illustrious Bassa” / Language Forum: A Journal of Language and Literature, 2012.

10-“The Metaphor of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations” / Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts, 2012.

11-A Confined Amorous Being: The Eastern Woman between Travel Literature and

  English Drama / Damascus University Journal, 2012.

12-Against the Grain: Ireland, Myth, and Globalization in W. B.Yeats’s Drama / The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, 2011.

13-The Coded Discourse: Eastern Jealousy on the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century

 Stage / Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts, 2009.

14-“John Dryden’s The Conquest of Granada: The Green-Eyed Monster Reconsidered”

              Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature, 2008.

Conference papers

·       “Lifting the veil of Representation: The Oriental Woman on Restoration and 18^th Century Stage”. The Seventeenth International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation. April 12- 14, 2005. Jordan.

·       “Restoration and 18^th Century Colonialism: The Levant in Travel Literature and Drama”. The Sixteenth International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation. April 28- 30, 2002. Jordan.

·       “Travel Accounts and the British Colonial Project”. Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Louisiana, USA. February 25 – 277, 1999.