Lahcen Ezzaher

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Education

• Ph.D., U of Arizona, Tucson, Rhetoric & Composition
• M.A., U of Bath, U.K., Translation & Linguistics

Professional/Academic Experience

• 2006-2016, UNC Professor
• 2005 (Summer), Bogazici U Visiting Professor
• 2003-2006, UNC Associate Professor
• 1997-2003, UNC Assistant Professor
• 1993-1995, U of Arizona Graduate TA

Research/Areas of Interest

AREA I: History & Theory of Rhetoric; Theories of Discourse; World Literature; Translation Studies (Arabic-English-French)

AREA II: Arabic Literature in English Translation; North African Francophone Literature; Orientalist Discourse and Post-Colonial Criticism

Publications/Creative Works

Book

Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle’s Rhetoric: The Commentaries of al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2015. Print

Articles (Juried)

“Multilingual Academics in a Global World and the Burden of Responsibility” In Global Academe: Engaging Intellectual Discourse. Eds. Nagy-Zekmi, Silvia & Karyn Hollis. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan (2012): 179-188. Print

“Mehdi Ben Barka” In The Dictionary of African Biography. Eds. Akyeampong, Emmanule & Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011): Vol. 1, 428-429. Print

“Omar Ben Jelloun” In The Dictionary of African Biography. Eds. Akyeampong, Emmanule & Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011): Vol. 1, 432-433. Print

“Semiotics” In The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Eds. Ryan, Michael and Gregory Castle. Malden, MA. Wiley-Blackwell (2011): 833-843. Print

Honors and Awards

• 2015 NEH Fellowship to complete book project, which is an Arabic-English Translation of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’sRhetoric
• 2010 Provost Fund for Faculty Scholarship & Professional Development Award to complete my book project, Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle’s Rhetoric: The Commentaries of al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes
• 2009 Prize for “Alfarabi’s Book of Rhetoric: An Arabic-English Translation of al-Farabi’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric” as best essay published in Rhetorica. The award was presented at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference in Montreal, Canada
• 1993-95 Graduate Teaching Assistantship offered by the Department of English, University of Arizona
• 1981-83 British Council Scholarship offered by the British Council, London, United Kingdom

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