Biography

 My name is Juan Abdulla Ibrahim Al-banna.  I am a Professor  of English literature, 20th century Modern Novel , at Salahaddin University. My PhD is about Twentieth Century British, and American autobiographical Novel : A study of Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. I attended several conferences in Turkey, Malatya , and with Cincinnati university when in Erbil presenting researches about women. I have written many researches related specifically to the gender of Modernism and women studies. Actually i have taught novel at all levels , 2nd stage, 3rd stage and 4th stage. i have taught also poetry , composition, literary criticism. i have taught MA students The rise of English Novel, Contemporary Novel. I have also taught PhD students, gender of Modernism and contemporary Modern Novel , i have taught High Diploma Students, a course in Gender studies. Due to my work in the department along many years as a member in scientific committee and my experience as a member in a higher studies exam committee, i managed to participate in these scientific activities.  At the present , I am a Professor  and head of the English Department in Salahaddin University, College of languages , English department in Erbil which lies in North of Iraq.  

 

Professor D. Juan Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Banna

Dept. of English. College of Languages

Salahaddin University/ Iraq/Erbil

  [email protected]

+964 7504753677

 

 

Research Interest

I am interested in Modern Novel studies, Cultural studies , and Applying psychological approaches on Modern Texts. Also i am interested in writing  experimental studies .

 

Publications

1-     Cultural and political impact on modern Kurdish poetry https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350022024

_Przeglad_Narodowosciowy_- (2015)

        2-The Modern  Man's Miseries in  John Ronald Tolkien's The Lord of the 

            Rings(1950)

           A Part of an MA Thesis entitled as (Semiotic Horror Elements as a Means of 

             Expressing the Modern Man’s Miseries in Stephen King’s The Shining and John

            Ronald Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings)  (PP 341 - 354)

              http://dx.doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.21.5.2 0          (2017)

   

       3-Loss and Nostalgia in Willa Cather's trilogy: O Pioneers!, The Song of the lark

           and My Antonia. Asst.Prof.Dr. Juan Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Banna Dept. of English.

           College of Languages Salahaddin University/Erbil  [email protected]

          2017.

       4-AL-USTATH                                                                  

                The Number 224– volume one  -  2018 AD, 1439 AH                                      

         Factors roles in Communication and Effective Teaching for the Fourth

        Year students in Modern British and American Novel lesson classes

       and their Impacts on Students' Motivation.

        Asst. Prof. Dr. Juan Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Banna

        Dept. of English. College of Languages

        Salahaddin University/Erbil

        [email protected]

 

    5-QALAAI ZANIST SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

       A Scientific Quarterly Refereed Journal Issued by Lebanese French University –

         Erbil,  Kurdistan, Iraq

       Vol. ( 4 ), Issue ( 2 ),  Spring  2019

       ISSN 2518-6566 (Online) - ISSN 2518-6558 (Print)

IDENTITY CRISIS IN ANDREA LEVY’S SMALL ISLAND (2004)

A part of an MA Thesis entitled as (Identity Crisis in Multicultural

London: A Study of Andrea Levy’s Small Island and Monica Ali’s Brick

Lane)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Juan Abdulla Ibrahim

Department of English Language / College of Languages / Salahaddin University / /

Erbil

[email protected]

Lecturer Shara Jamal Shahoyi

Department of English Language / College of Languages / Salahaddin University / /

Erbil 

[email protected]

6-Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (KUJHSS)

Modernity, Mass Culture, and Self-Delusion in Nabokov’s Lolita and Martin Amis’ Money

Juan Abdullah Ibrahim

Department of English, College of Languages, Salahaddin University- Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (2019)

7-QALAAI ZANISTSCIENTIFIC JOURNAL A Scientific Quarterly Refereed Journal Issued by Lebanese French University – Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq Vol. (5), No (2), spring 2020 ISSN 2518-6566 (Online) - ISSN 2518-6558 (Print)

A Critique of Consumer Culture and Millennial Catastrophe In Martin Amis's London Fields (1989)

Zhaneen Arif Rushdi Department of English Literature Master Program, College of Education, Tishik International University, Erbil, Iraq [email protected] Juan Abdullah Ibrahim Department of English, College of Languages, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq [email protected]

(2020).

8- A Critique of Consumer Culture and Millennial Catastrophe

In Martin Amis's London Fields (1989)

Zhaneen Arif Rushdi                                                                                  

Department of English Literature Master Program, College of Education, Tishik International

University, Erbil, Iraq

[email protected]                                                                             

Juan Abdullah Ibrahim

Department of English, College of Languages, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq

[email protected] (2020).

 

9- 2021

Mental Health in John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down

ID No.3852 (PP 173 - 182) https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs

. Juan Abdullah Ibrahim College of Languages Salahaddin University-Erbil [email protected]

2 5 . 3 . 1 1 Khadeeja Saeed Ismail College of Education Salahaddin University-Erbil [email protected]   (2021)

10- Al-Adab Journal – Issue no (2) Vol. (143) (December) 2022 / 1444

Reading Trauma in Antonia White’s Confessional Autobiographical Novels

Asst. Prof. Juan Abdullah Ibrahim (Phd.) Salahaddin University-Erbil, College of Languages, English Department, Iraq / Erbil [email protected] DOI: https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i143.3749

11- 2022

Modernism in Antonia White’s Confessional Autobiographical Narratives: A study of Woman’s Life in Twentieth Century

ID No. 265 (PP 317 - 325) https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.26.4.20

Juan Abdullah Ibrahim Department of English, College of Languages, Salahaddin University-Erbil [email protected]

 

12-Al-Adab Journal – Issue no (2) Vol. (144) (March) 2023 / 1444

Self –Delusion in Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing (1950)

Luqman Omer Khedir

Asst. Prof. Juan Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Banna (Ph.D.)

Banaali_juan@yahoo.

com Dept. Of English - College of Languages - Salahaddin University/ Erbil DOI: https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i144.4038

13- From Neurotic Anxiety, Guilt of an Unlived Life, and Bad Faith into Self-Unfoldment in Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy

ID No. 943 (PP 545 – 559 ) https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.27.SpA.30

Bukhari Abdullah Rasool Department of English,College of Basic Education,Salahaddin University-Erbil [email protected]

Juan Abdullah Ibrahim Department of English,College of Languages,Salahaddin University-Erbil [email protected]

2023

14- No.00 2023 Zanco Journal of Human Sciences (ZJHS) ISSN (Print):2218-0222 ISSN (Online): 2412-396X

Zanco Journal of Human Science Vol.28 Issue SpB 2024 ID No.1594 (PP 559 -578)

https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.

28.SpB.30 Research Article

Existential Meaninglessness and Meaningfulness in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier: An Existential Psychotherapeutic Study

Bukhari Abdullah Rasool / Department of English, College of Basic Education, Salahaddin University-Erbil Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq . ,Juan Abdullah Ibrahim /Department of English, College of Languages, Salahaddin University-Erbil, Erbil Kurdistan Region, Iraq. (2024).

 

 

 

Teaching

This academic year i have taught a course in Historical fiction.

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