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Department of English
Middle Tennessee State University
Box 70
1301 East Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Main Office: Peck Hall 302
Department Chair: Dr. Tom Strawman
Telephone: (615) 898-5644
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Faculty Profile

Dr. Mohammed Albakry

Dr. Mohammed Albakry
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions Member, Doctoral Faculty

B.A., 1994, Alexandria University, Egypt ; M.A. Certificate, 1995, Alexandria University , Egypt ; M.A., 2001, University of Massachusetts ; Ph.D., 2005, Northern Arizona University. (2005)

Office: PH 381; Phone/Voice Mail: 494-8658

A native of Egypt, Dr. Albakry is Associate Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). He has taught at MTSU since 2005 and is the current Director of Graduate Admissions for the English Department. A recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from MTSU Foundation in 2010, he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Morocco in 2012. His main research and teaching interests are in the areas of corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical discourse studies, and English grammar. He is also interested in Anglophone Arab literature, stylistics of literary translation, and language and identity politics in Africa and the Middle East. Currently he is working on a paper on language policy in North Africa and co-editing an anthology on post-revolutionary Egyptian drama.

See some of Dr. Albakry's work on http://mtsu.academia.edu/MohammedAlbakry

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Conference Presentations

(2013). Speaking your language: the discourse of inclusive preaching in the digital age. Paper to be presented (with Clint Bryant) in January 2013 at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference, San Diego, CA.
(2012). Personal identity and English learning in Morocco. Paper presented (with Brad Horn) in April at the Moroccan Association of Teachers of English, Oujda, Morocco.
(2012). Idioms of affiliations: Language and identity politics in Morocco. Paper presented in May at the Annual Moroccan Studies Symposium, Rabat, Morocco.
(2012). From insulation to solidarity: Dramatizing collective awakening in Ibrahim El-Husseini's Comedy of Sorrows. Paper presented (with Rebekah Maggor) in June at the 5th International Conference of Critiquing Postcoloniality and Performing Cultural Diversity, Tangier, Morocco.
(2011). Enforcing a racist ideology: A corpus-based study. Paper presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
(2011). Diverse but harmony is yet to come: Analyzing immigration discourse.Paper presented (with Jianqing Wu) at the 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée), Beijing, China.
(2010). Analyzing the Discourse of Immigration in Southern U.S. Newspapers. Paper presented at theAmerican Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
(2009). I shall re-invent your language: Linguistic hybridity and Arab authors writing in English. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference of Critiquing Postcoloniality and Performing Cultural Diversity, Tangier, Morocco.
(2009). Code switching in fiction and bilingual creativity. Paper presented at theAmerican Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Denver, Colorado.
(2008). Social taboo, evaluation, and identity construction online.Paper presented at theAmerican Association of Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference, Provo, Utah.
(2007). Bridging gaps in intercultural communication. Panel presentation at the Third Biennial International Diversity Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
(2007). Language features in young adult literature: Corpus-based analysis. Paper presented at theAmerican Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Costa Mesa, California.
(2007). Linguistic accessibility and style in young adult fiction. Paper presented (with G. Morrissey) at the 7th Biennial Modern Critical Approaches to Children's Literature Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.
(2007). Enhancing learning by using multi-media in teaching variation in Standard English. Paper presented at the Instructional Technology Conference, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
(2006). The language of prestige and popular journalism in American English. Paper presented at the 3ed Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) International Conference, Nottingham, England.
(2006). Newspaper language and stylistic identity. Paper presented at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 73), Auburn, Alabama.
(2006). Utilizing text corpora and electronic resources for English language teaching. Paper presented at the Instructional Technology Conference, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
(2005). Language variation in American journalism: A corpus-based study. Paper presented at American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics and International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (AAACL6/ICAME 26) Joint Conferences, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(2004). Subjunctive triggers in American newspaper language. Paper presented (with W. Crawford) at American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Portland, Oregon.
(2004). Consciousness-raising of usage issues using CALL: Pedagogical use of historical corpora. Paper presented (with K. Tadayoshi) at 3rd Annual Conference on Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL), Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(2001). Benefits and pitfalls of the bilingual dictionary. Paper presented at Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Conference Graduate Students' Forum, St.Louis, Missouri.