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ABDERREZZAQ GHAFSI

ABDERREZZAQ GHAFSI

Faculty of Language Studies
Faculty of Language Studies
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
4308
aghafsi@aou.edu.kw
Office FE642

Professional Biography

Abderrezzaq Ghafsi is an Assistant Professor of English Literature. He has an MA in African Literature in English and a PhD in British Victorian Literature from Anglia Ruskin University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include world literature, British Victorian literature, language policy and planning (LPP). He taught English at Cambridge, Anglia Ruskin and Mohamed Boudiaf universities. He joined  Arab Open University in September 2023.

Courses Taught

1. Cultures (A112B), 

2. Reading and Studying Literature (A230A),

3. Research Writing (EL122),

4. Introduction to Literature (E121)

5. Children Literature (EA300A)

Professional Experience

1. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Language Studies, Arab Open University, Kuwait Headquarters, September 2023- present.

2. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Mohamed Boudiaf University, M'sila, Algeria, 2021-2023.

3. Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin and Cambridge universities, Cambridge, UK, March -April 2019. 

Research Publications

1. Ghafsi, Abderrezzaq, and Salim Bouherar. Algerian Languages in Education: Conflicts and Reconciliation. Springer Nature, 2022.

2. Ghafsi, Abderrezzaq. "Dickens in Arabia: The Influence of Dickens on Algerian Literature and Culture." The Dickensian 115.509 (2019): 222-236.

3. Ghafsi, Abderrezzaq. "The Islamic Reception of Charles Dickens in Algeria." The Dickensian 115.514 (2021): 168-176.

4. Ghafsi, Abderrezzaq. "Emir Abdelkader in Charles Dickens’s Journals." The Dickensian 116.515 (2023): 147-157.

5. Ghafsi, Abderrezzaq. "The Adaptations of Charles Dickens in Algeria." The Dickensian 120.522 (2024): 67-76. 

6. Abderrezzaq Ghafsi. (2024). Rethinking Global Dickens. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 7(6), 94–100. https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2024.7.6.11

7. Ghafsi, Abderrezzaq. "The Impacts of Politics on the Circulation of Charles Dickens's Novels in Algeria from 1878 to 1990". Dickens Quarterly, 42 (1), 50-70.  

8. Abderrezzaq. Ghafsi. “The Reception of Beowulf in Algeria”. Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies, 5 (2), 1-10.

9. Ghafsi, Abderrezzaq and Maher Ben Moussa. "Charles Dickens in Arabic." The Dickensian 527.121 (2025): 343-353.