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Teaching the Structures of Academic Writing through Peer Review: A Study on the Beginners of English Language Courses at BRAC University
(GSTF Journal on Education, 2015)Substantial peer feedback of the students through peer review in the context of EFL or ESL can help them become skilled at different structures and strategies of academic writing in English rather than receiving feedback ... -
THE NOBLE KARDOUCHOI AND THE BARBAROUS MOSSYNOIKOI: Remembering and Forgetting Ancient Anatolian Peoples
(Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, 2015)For several hundred years from the mid-first millennium B.C.E. the Mossynoikoi and the Kardouchoi were dominant peoples in their respective regions of Anatolia. While the historical record indicates they were strong ... -
ANGLO-AMERICAN NARRATIVES OF ITALIAN OTHERNESS AND THE POLITICS OF ORIENTALIZING SOUTHERN EUROPE
(AUW, 2016)This essay reflects on Anglo-American literary representations of Italian culture from the perspective of postcolonial theory. Throughout history, many national and cultural entities have defined themselves in relation ... -
The Genetic Essence of Houses and People: History as Idealization and Appropriation of an Imagined Timelessness
(AUW, 2016)Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) tells the story of Eleonora, a young woman who travels to Venice in search of her genealogical past and existential roots. Coming from London, Eleonora incarnates a ... -
Anglophone Popular Narratives of Italian Otherness and the Politics of Orientalizing Southern Europe
(AUW, 2016)This paper sets itself the goal to analyze the ways in which the discourses that have been employed in rationalizing the political and cultural divide between the 1orth and the South of (urope find an outlet in the context ... -
Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture
(AUW, 2016)In The Rhetoric of Empire (1993), David Spurr analyzes journalistic discourse on the Third World and isolates a nucleus of rhetorical figures around which representations of the colonial and post-colonial other are ... -
The Essences of Objects: Explicating a Theory of Essence in Object-Oriented Ontology
(De Gruyter, 2019)In this paper, I will discuss the need for a theory of essences within Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and then formulate one. I will do so by drawing on Graham Harman’s work on OOO and Martin Heidegger’s thought on the ... -
“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love
(AUW, 2020)This paper investigates two popular historical novels, Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) and Anne Fortier’s Juliet (2010), in order to shed light on a discourse of pure origins and unbroken continuity ... -
CRITICAL INSIGHTS Life of Pi
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Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries
(AUW, 2020-12)A dominant descriptive pattern of the Anglo-Italian encounter in modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction has been focusing on representing Italy as a unique constellation of counter-values to Anglo-American culture ... -
The application of guided peer feedback in facilitating L2 writing: Action research with tertiary-level language learners in Bangladesh
(The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021)This study is based on action research conducted with 117 students attending their introductory English language courses at two universities in Bangladesh. Peer feedback (PF), an essential part of collaborative learning, ... -
Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Don’t Move
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Potential predatory scholarly open-access publisher
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Discursive Intertextuality, Parody, and Mise en Abyme in A.S. Byatt’s Short Stories
(AUW, 2022)This essay analyses three short stories from A.S. Byatt's collection Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998) in light of several self-reflexive strategies. The short narratives Crocodile Tears and Baglady will be ... -
Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff
(AUW, 2022)This short essay constiutes a reflection on meta-generic strategies and practises employed by authors of romance fiction. Conceived as a response to Burkhard Niederhoff’s article published in Connotations, it aims at ... -
Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey)
(AUW, 2022-06)The seminar ‘Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey)’ was held at the Department of English of University of Basel in the Winter term ... -
Curriculam Vitea
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Theches: an elusive mountain
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)This article deals with the location of Mount Theches, the vantage point from which Xenophon’s Ten Thousand famously got their first sight of the sea after a long and arduous march across eastern Anatolia. It discusses ... -
Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People
(AUW, 2023-02)