English Department Profiles

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, Albakry is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English department. He has taught at MTSU since 2005 and is the current Director of Graduate Admissions for the English Department. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, translation studies, and grammar and language pedagogy. A recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from MTSU Foundation in 2010, he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Morocco for 2012. Currently, he is completing an article-length study on Analyzing the Discourse of Immigration in Southern U.S. Newspapers and is developing a research project on language policy in North Africa.

See Dr. Albakry’s Homepage at http://mtweb.mtsu.edu/albakry/

See Publications

Conference Presentations

International Conferences

(2011). Diverse but harmony is yet to come: Analyzing immigration discourse. Paper presented at the 16th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée), Beijing, China.
(2009). I shall re-invent your language: Linguistic hybridity and Arab authors writing in English. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference of Performing Tangier: Critiquing Postcoloniality and Performing Cultural Diversity, Tangier, Morocco.
(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.

National conferences

(2011). Enforcing a racist ideology: A corpus-based study of New England’s complicity in colonial America’s slavery. Paper presented at the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
(2010). Analyzing the Discourse of Immigration in Southern U.S. Newspapers. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
(2009). Code switching in fiction and bilingual creativity. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Denver, Colorado.
(2008). Social taboo, evaluation, and identity construction online. Paper presented at the American 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 the American 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, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee.
(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, Middle Tennessee State University, 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.