Conference Speakers

Hamad Alajmi Associate Professor of Arabic literature at Kuwait University, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, College of Art.
Academic Degrees:
– Bachelor degree, in Arabic Language and Literature, 2004, Kuwait University.
– M.A in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2008, Indiana University, Bloomington.
– Ph.D., in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2012, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Oana Condurache is a first year PhD candidate in Philology at the West University of Timișoara, Romania’s Doctoral School in the Humanities, specializing in American Studies and Ethnic Feminist writings. She completed her dissertation on ethnic autobiographies and childhood trauma. She received 1st prize for her presentation and her published article on the global novel as part of the INTERCULTURALIA International Symposium University of in Iași. Her recent article, “Should Chicano Literature Be Part of the American Studies?” is forthcoming in the American Studies Series.

Miss Chunyan Jia is a final year PhD candidate in Literary Translation Studies at the University of Warwick. Her research interest includes classical Chinese literature, poetry translation, style and the Stylistics theory. Her PhD thesis is “West-East Interpretation of Classical Chinese and Japanese Literature: A Case Study of Burton Watson’s Translation”.

Dr. Hend Hamed is an assistant professor of English Literature at the department of English, AOU Kuwait. She obtained her M.A. in Irish poetry and PhD in American literature in 2010 and 2014 respectively. She has extensive experience in teaching English language and literature courses in universities in Egypt and Kuwait. She has many publications in reputable journals and presented at several international conferences. Her research interests include Romantic literature, resistance literature, ethnic-American literature, and trauma studies.

Dr. Maria Cristina Gomes Da Conceicao is a Medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, specializing in Public Health at Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Master, and Ph.D. in Population and Development. She is a teacher and Researcher at the Latinamerican Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO Mexico, and currently a guest researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her areas of interest are poverty, inequalities, intersectionalities, gender, race, social class discrimination, social policies, and health.

Ms. Huma Saeed is a Ph. D scholar serving as Lecturer at NUML, Pakistan. Her research interests encompass Literary theory, Postcolonial and Postmodern studies. She likes to travel and she is an avid reader. At the moment she is a promising candidate for the Associate Fellowship of the National Academy of Higher Education (NAHE).