Nour Dakkak is Assistant Professor of English
Literature at the Arab Open University, Kuwait. She received her PhD from
Lancaster University in 2018, and her research interests include landscape writing
and early twentieth-century literature and culture. She is the author of E. M. Forster's Material Humanism: Queer Matters (Routledge 2023), and the co-editor of Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside (Palgrave 2020) with Jo Carruthers, and Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 with Jo Carruthers and Rebecca Spence (Plagrave 2020). She has also published several papers on walking and mobilities in the works of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence.
Reading
Introduction to English Literature
Culture
Reading and Studying Literature
Children's Literature
Assistant Professor, Arab Open University, Kuwait [2020- Present]
Associate Lecturer, Lancaster University, England [2015-2018]
2023. E. M. Forster's Material Humanism: Queer Matters (Routledge)
2020 Co-authored book chapter ‘Introduction:
Sandscapes’ in Sandscapes:
Writing the British Seaside, edited by Jo Carruthers
and Nour Dakkak (Palgrave Macmillan US).
2020 Book co-editor Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside, edited by Jo Carruthers and Nour Dakkak (Palgrave Macmillan US).
2020 Book chapter ‘Passion and
Dynamic Sexualities in the Edwardian Sandscape’ in Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside, edited by Jo Carruthers and Nour Dakkak (Palgrave Macmillan US)
2019 Book co-editor Anticipatory
Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930, edited by Jo
Carruthers, Nour Dakkak and Rebecca Spence (Palgrave Macmillan 2020)
2019 Co-authored book chapter
‘Introduction: Anticipatory Materialisms’ in Anticipatory Materialisms in
Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930, edited by Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak
and Rebecca Spence (Palgrave Macmillan 2020)
2019 Book chapter “‘A smell! A true
Florentine smell!’: Tourists’ Embodied Experiences in E. M. Forster’s Fiction”
in Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930,
edited by Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak and Rebecca Spence (Palgrave Macmillan
2019)
2019 Book
chapter ‘Mobility, Attentiveness, and Sympathy in E. M. Forster’s Fiction’ in Mobilities, Literature, Culture edited by Marian Aguiar, Charlotte Mathieson
and Lynne Pearce
(Palgrave Macmillan 2019)
2017 Book
chapter ‘Walking, Drifting, Trailing: Forster in Film Adaptations’, in “Only Connect”: E. M. Forster's Legacies in British
Fiction (Bern: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 211-226
