Biography
Professor of modern and comparative literature; novelist, short-story writer and critic working across Arabic and English for more than half a century.
Personal
- Prof. Dr. Ahmad Mohammad Alzubi
- Full Professor
- Born 1949 · Ramtha, Jordan
- Jordanian
- Department of Arabic Language, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box 15551, Al Maqam, Al Ain, U.A.E.
- Department of Arabic, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
Degrees
- 1973
B.A. — Arabic Language
University of Jordan
- 1977
M.A. — Arabic Literature
Cairo University
- 1981
M.A. — English Literature (Modern)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- 1982
Ph.D. — Modern Literature & Criticism / Comparative Literature
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Dissertations
Contemporary Currents in the Short Story (in Egypt), 1977 — published as a book in 1994.
Death in the Modern Arabic Novel — Studies and Comparisons, 1982; translated and published in Arabic as The Problematic of Death in the Arabic and Western Novel, 1994.
Teaching
- 1981–1982
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- 1982–1988
Yarmouk University, Jordan
Modern literature, comparative literature and modern criticism at B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. levels.
- 1988–1992
Qatar University
- 1992–1998
Yarmouk University, Jordan
- 1998–1999
Hashemite University, Jordan
- 1998–1999
University of Jordan
- 1999–2017
United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain
Head of the Department of Arabic Language for seven years (2005–2012).
- 2020
Al Wasl University, Dubai
Research interests
Modern literature, modern criticism and comparative literature, with sustained attention to contemporary critical methods in both theory and application.