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Fadwa Bouguerra

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Qualifications: Ph.D. Candidate University of Manouba Tunisia| English Literature- Trauma in Literature Dissertation: “The Aesthetics of Trauma and The Ethics of the Confessional: A Postmodern Perspective on the Poetry of Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Georgia Douglas Johnson present | MA in English University of Kairouan Tunisia English Literature- Women and Gender Studies Dissertation: “Femininity in Flannery O’Connor’s Work: A Feminist Reading of The Angles of Spirituality, Grotesquerie, and Womanhood | BA in English University of Kairouan Tunisia English Language, Linguistics and Literature

Biography

A young Tunisian female activist and women’s rights advocate. She is the Vice President and executive member of International Institute of Debate in charge of communication and development. She received her MA degree in American Literature with a concentration on women’s and gender studies from University of Kairouan. She is a Fulbright Alumna at Bennett College for Women and a specialist coach in corporate and professional communication. She is currently working on her PhD in Trauma Studies in Literature with a concentration on confessional poetry and life narratives.

Areas of Expertise

Communication English

Research Interest

Education System

The Fear of Breaking through in Fear: A ‘Tell-Tale Heart’ of Poetic Confessions”, The Fear Conference, Kairouan University. October 2020.
The Resurrection of a Shattered-Self in an ‘Abject Body’, The Affect and The Corporeal International Conference, ENS. October 2020. “Vulnerability of the Tunisian Education System: A pendulum swing between reality and hope”, Edited by Eid Mohamed, Hannah R. Gerber, and Slimane Aboulkacem _ Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands., February 2016.
Breathing it All: An Ecopoetic Awakening in Sylvia Plath’s and Anne Sexton’s Works”, Doctoral Seminars Presentations. English Doctoral Department, Manouba University. Feb 2020.
The Indwelling Narrative Tellability and Denial in Confessional Poetry: Storytelling Interplay of the Remembered Self and The Remembering Self”, Stories to Live By: Narrative and Identity. The Minorities and Multilingualism programmes and the Arts, Culture and Media programmes, Groningen University. Feb 2020.
The Incarnation of Religiosity in the Body: Flannery O’Connor’s maimed souls and bodies”, Fulbright Academic Symposium, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, March 7, 2014.
The Serendipity of Intersection”, Tunis, The Tunis Times, August 17, 2013

Writing & Composition
Academic English
Public Speaking and Social Media
Language Acquisition and Academic Writing
Corporate Communication
Professional Communication
Business Writing
Business English –ES

2019- 2020
International Institute of Debate
Executive Board Member in charge of Development and Training
2015- 2017
IREX
Thomas Jefferson Scholarship Panelist
2013- 2014
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society _ Eta Beta Chapter
Honorary Member
2013- 2014
Institute of International Education
Fulbright Alumna

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