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Majeed Mohammed Midhin (Assistant Professor)

PhD in English Literature/Contemporary British Theatre

English - Education for Humanities
majeed.mohammed@uoanbar.edu.iq


Biography

 

   My name is Majeed Mohammed Midhin. I am from Iraq. I have MA in English literature from the University of Baghdad- College of Languages in 2002. In 2017, I got a PhD in Literature from the University of Essex. It is under the supervisions of Dr. Clare Finburgh and Dr. Elizabeth J. Kuti. My field of interest is contemporary and modern British drama which touches the immediate needs of people in society. I have participated in many colloquiums, conferences and seminars inside and outside UK. Now I am a teacher at the University of Anbar, Iraq.

Publication

 1-Love and Justice: Face to face in Shakespeare's King Lear's Family Relationship, Diala University-Al-Fatih Journal, No. 17, 2004.Iraq.

 

 2-Innuendo as a Rhetorical Strategy in Shakespeare's Othello, University of Anbar, The Humanity & Economic Journal, No. 4, 2004.Iraq.

 

 3-The Significance of Stage Directions and Linguistic Raparture in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, University of Anbar, The Humanity & Economic Journal, Vol.3,    No. 10, 2007. Iraq.

 

 4-Desire under the Elms: Drama of the Absent Hero, University of Baghdad- Alustath Journal, No. 72, 2008.Iraq.

 

5- Towards a Rhetoric of Fictionality to non-fiction Novel: A Study of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Diala University-Al-Fatih Journal, No. 36, 2008.Iraq.

 

6- Majeed Mohammed Midhin, “Arab Spring and Tawfiq AL-Hakim’s Idea of the Social Responsibility of the Artist: Arabic Theatre Working Group,” in Book of Abstracts: Theatre and Stratification (University of Warwick: Cambridge University Press: 2014), p. 320.

 

7- Tawfik al-Hakim and the Social Responsibility of the Artist, Arab Stages, Volume 1, Number 2 (Spring 2015) by Martin E. Segal Theatre Centre Publications. USA.

                                 

8-The Dilemma of the Artist in Contemporary British Theatre:  A Theoretical Background, Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, Volume 2, Issue 4, October 2015. Athens.                                           

 

9- Techniques used by University Instructors in Teaching Short Story, International Journal of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2, No. 3. September 2015. USA.

 

10- Tom Stoppard: The Amorality of the Artist, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, Vol: 9, No: 7, 2015, France.

 

11- Timberlake Wertenbaker: The Representation of Women Artists, A Thematic Study in Contemporary British Theatre.  A book by Majeed Mohammed Midhin (LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016).

 

12-Majeed Mohammed Midhin, “The Representation of History: A Crisis of Censorship and the

Role of the Artist in Howard Barker’s No End of Blame and

Scenes from an Execution: Political Performances Working Group “in Book of Abstracts: Presenting The Theatrical Past (Stockholm: Cambridge University Press, 2016), p. 500.

 

13-The Healing Power of Theatre in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good

MAJEED MOHAMMED MIDHIN , ArtsPraxis, Volume 6 Number 2, 2019

 

14-Sadomasochism in Sarah Kane’s Blasted, Journal of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Volume 22, Issue 11, November – 2020

 

15-Majeed Mohammed Midhin and David Clare, Memory, National Identity Formation, and (Neo)Colonialism in Hannah Khalil’s A Museum in Baghdad (2019), JCDE (Journal of Contemporary Drama in English), Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2021.

 

16-Majeed Mohammed Midhin and David Clare, National Cultural History and Transnational Political Concerns in Rasha Fadhil's Ishtar in Baghdad (2003), Studies in Theatre and Performance, Vol. 41, Issue 3 (2021)

Lectures


No. Subjects Lectures Stage File Video
1 Shakespearean Drama Hamlet : A Critical View Third
2 Shakespearean Drama Hamlet and Greek Theatre Third
3 Shakespearean Drama Hamlet and the language of the Age Third
4 Shakespearean Drama Place and time in Hamlet Third
5 Shakespearean Drama The Problem of Desire in Hamlet Third
6 Shakespearean Drama Adaptation in Hamlet Third
7 Shakespearean Drama Suicide and Justice in Hamlet Third
8 Shakespearean Drama Evolving Hamlet: Brains, Behavior, and the Bard Third
9 Shakespearean Drama Literary Darwinism Third
10 Shakespearean Drama Hidden Forces in Hamlet Third
11 Shakespearean Drama Fate in Hamlet Third
12 Shakespearean Drama Lessons from Hamlet Third
13 Shakespearean Drama Shakespeare’s Hamlet Third
14 Shakespearean Drama Analysis of Characters in Hamlet Third
15 Shakespearean Drama References of Shakespearean Drama Third

Other

1-Translating Myth, An International Conference, 5-7 September 2013, Centre for Myth Studies, University of Essex, At firstsite, Colchester, UK.

 

2-Theatre and Stratification, School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, The University of Warwick. FIRT/IFTR World Congress: University of Warwick, 28/07/-01/08/2014, UK. I presented a paper entitled “Arab Spring and Tawfiq AL-Hakim’s Idea of the Social Responsibility of the Artist.”

 

3-4th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World, University of London, Senate House, London, 24-25th November 2014, UK. I presented a paper entitled “Freudian Reading of O’Neil’s Desire under the Elms.”

 

4-2nd Annual International Conference on Humanities & Arts in a Global World (ATINER), 3-6 January 2015 Athens, Greece. I presented a paper entitled “The Dilemma of the Artist in Contemporary British Theatre:  A Theoretical Background.”

 

5-A Colloquium about “Attempts on his Life- Martin Crimp – playwright, translator, translated,” Pearson Lecture Theatre G22, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom, 31 March 2015.

 

6-Theatre and Democracy, Department of Theatre Arts, S. N. School of Arts & Communication, University of Hyderabad, India. International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference 6- 10 July 2015. I presented a paper entitled “Contemporary British Theatre: Towards a Democratic Canon.”

 

7-The International Christopher Marlowe Conference, University of Exeter, 7th-8th September 2015, UK.

 

8-Symposium: Making theatre in the midst of austerity, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester, Bridgeford Street, M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom, 4 November 2015.

 

9-Symposium: Whither Europe? Performance and the ‘Old Continent’ in the long moment of ‘crisis’, Organized by the Inside/Outside Europe Research Network in collaboration with European Theatre Research Network (ETRN), 09 January 2016, G10, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, London, UK.

 

10-International Women’s Day Conference Resounding Voices: Women, Silence, and the Production of Knowledge, Lindisfarne Centre, St. Aidan’s College, Durham University, 08/03/2016, UK. I presented a paper entitled “The Dilemma of Women Playwrights in Contemporary British Theatre: A Close Reading in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Plays.” 

 

11-Elsinore Conference 2016, 22-24 April 2016, Kronborg Castle, Helsingør, Denmark, Shakespeare - the next 400 years. I presented a paper entitled “Female/male Characters and Shakespeare’s Perspective of Gender”.

 

12-Howard Barker Symposium, 27 – 29 May 2016, PRIFYSGOL ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY, Adran Astudiaethau Theatr, Ffilm a Theledu. I presented a paper entitled “Howard Barker: The Crisis of Contemporary British Theatre”.

 

13-The Eighteenth Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BRITGRAD) June 2nd – 4th 2016. The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham “400 Years and Counting: Celebrating Early Modern Drama” in Stratford- upon- Avon. I presented a paper entitled “Shakespeare’s Concept of Justice: A Close Reading of Othello and King Lear.”

 

14-IFTR2016 Conference, Sweden, University of Stockholm June 13 – 17 “Presenting the Theatrical Past.” I presented a paper entitled “The Representation of History: A Crisis of Censorship and the Role of the Artist in Howard Barker’s No End of Blame and Scenes from an Execution.

 

15-16th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Drama “Memory and Imagined Futures APGRD, University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, June 27 – 28, 2016. I presented a paper entitled “The Reception of Ancient Greek Tragedy and the Power of Theatre in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale (1988)”.

 

16-Wesker Celebration on Sunday 09 October 2016 at 15:00 at the Royal Court Theatre in Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. 

 

17-British Theatre in the 21st Century: New texts, New stages, New identities, New worlds. A conference organized by Paris-Sorbonne (VALE EA 4085), Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Prismes EA 4398), Royal Holloway (University of London). Paris-Sorbonne, 13-15 October 2016 Université Paris-Sorbonne.

 

18-IV International Conference of Myth Criticism: Myth and Emotions, 24-28 October 2016, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. I presented a paper entitled “The Reception of Ancient Greek Tragedy and the Power of Theatre in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale (1988)”.

 

19-A Symposium of “Voice and Identity: Touches, Textures, Timbres,” University of Winchester, Saturday 28 January 2017.

 

20-FOOT 2017, The 25th Festival of Original Theatre: Sounding the Inner Ear of Performance, The Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Toronto February 2nd – 5th 2017 Canada. I presented a paper entitled “Katie Mitchell on Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life: A New Dimension of Sound Technology”.

 

21-A Conference of Performance and Revolution I.S.T.R. 2017/ 28-29 April, University of Nottingham.

 

22-A Conference of Migration/Representation/Stereotypes, 28-30 April 2017, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

 

23-The Irish Women Playwrights and Theatremakers Conference (8-10 June 2017 at MIC, UL): Mary Immaculate College/University of Limerick, Ireland.

 

24-The Times They Are A Changin’: Transitions and Transformations, LiFTS PhD Conference 2017, Tuesday 20 June, Essex Business School, Room 2.1, Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ Colchester, United Kingdom.

 

25-International Festival of Women Making Theatre to Inspire Change, A Conference by Ariadne and University of Essex, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Saturday 24 June 2017.

 

26-Nation, Nationhood and Theatre, 26th Annual CDE (The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English) Conference, University of Reading, UK, 29 June- 2 July 2017.

 

27-My paper entitled “Behind Closed Doors: A Trauma of War and Violence on Iraq in David Hare’s Stuff Happens (2005) and Jonathan Lichtenstein’s The Pull of Negative Gravity (2004)” is accepted to be presented via Political Performances Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Annual Conference, ‘Unstable Geographies: Multiple Theatricalities’, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, 10-14 July 2017.

 

28-My paper entitled “The Artist as a Character in Contemporary British Theatre” is accepted to be presented in the conference of “Writing about Contemporary Artists: Challenges, Practices and Complexities” being held at the University of Surrey, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Music and Media on 20-22 October 2017.

 

29- IFTR2018 Conference, Serbia, University of Belgrade July 9 – 13 “Theatre and Migration: Theatre, Nation and Identity between Migration and Stasis.” I presented a paper entitled “Cultural Hybridity: The Question of Britishness in Contemporary British Theatre.”

 

30- My paper entitled “Death and Howard Barker’s Concept of Theatre” is accepted to be presented at the University of York through Death and Culture II Conference on 6th- 7th Sept 2018.

 

37-31-The 2018 PoP Moves Conference, “Memory, Migration and Movement”, Paris from 8-9 December 2018 as attendee.

 

32-My paper entitled “Cultural Adaptation in Contemporary British Theatre: A New Perspective of the State of the Nation Plays” is presented in the British Academy funded conference “Contemporary European Drama in Translation on the British Stage: Exploring its absence in the context of Brexit” from January 11-12, 2019 at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, University of London, UK.

 

33- My paper entitled “The Arab Spring and the New Political Trends in Iraqi Theatre of Protest” is presented at School of Arts and Humanities, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK via a symposium on January 10th 2019.

 

34-My paper "Cognitive Dissonance as a Cultural Tool in Drama Analysis" is accepted to be presented at TaPRA (Theatre & Performance Research Association)-SCUDD 2019 PG Symposium 13th March 2019 at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, UK.

 

35- “Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama in Iraqi Universities: A Pedagogical Reconsideration” is accepted to be delivered at the University of Warwick, UK on the 4th of May 2019 via a conference of Sidelights on Shakespeare-‘Teaching Early Modern Drama’.

 

36- My paper “Theatricality of War and the New Technical Media of Representation” is accepted to be delivered in a conference at the University of Ottawa, Canada, 25-27 April 2019.

 

37-A Workshop in Shakespeare in Italy Summer School in Florence from July 6-19 2019.

 

38-The 29th annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE). The conference, on the topic of Critical Theatre Ecologies, was held in Augsburg, Germany, as an online conference, 3-6 June 2021.

 

39-Shakespeare Institute's online, University of Birmingham, UK, "Shakespeare Beyond Borders" event, from June 9th-11th 2021.

 

40-"Iraqi Theatre: A Niche in an Ecologically Political Sane Milieu" is a paper presented online via IFTR conference 2021. The theme of the conference is "Theatre Ecologies: Environment, Sustainability and Politics", held in Galway, Ireland from 12-16 July 2021.

 

 

F-Workshops and Lectures with International Universities

No.

Lecture

Lecturer Name

University

Invited and interviewed by

Date

1

Shamlet: Hamlet, Fake News, and the Burden of Interpretation

 Dr. Paul Prescott

University of Warwick/ UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

30/04/2020

2

Multilingualism in Theatre

Dr. Yana Meerzon

University of Ottawa/ Canada

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

05/05/2020

3

Documentary and Subversive Theatre and Film about Refugees

Dr. Steve Wilmer

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin/ Ireland

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

14/05/2020

4

A Conversation with Dr. Ben Spatz

Dr. Ben Spatz

University of Huddersfield/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

09/06/2020

5

Samuel Beckett and Border Thinking

Dr. Nicholas Johnson

University of Dublin-Samuel Beckett Centre/Ireland

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

17/05/2020

6

Decolonizing Shakespeare in Performance: The Tempest and Othello in Britain

Dr. Robert Gordon

Goldsmiths-University of London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

19/05/2020

7

Contemporary Englishness(es): Current Trends in Writing the Nation

Dr. Christine Berberich and Dr. Emma Schlesinger

University of Portsmouth/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

01/06/2020

8

Exploring What It Is Be Human in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Dr. Catherine Rosarie

Goldsmiths-University of London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

04/06/2020

9

Feminists and Feminisms: Rights, Representations, and Challenges

Dr. Susan Bruce

University of Keele/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

17/06/2020

10

An Anatomy: A Performance

Dr. Anna Furse

Goldsmiths-University of London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

24/06/2020

11

Othello

Dr. Paul Prescott

University of Warwick/ UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

25/06/2020

12

Looking Forward to Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Stage Adaptation of a Classic Dystopia

Dr. Benjamin Poore

University of York/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

26/06/2020

13

The debris of the present and futures past: Postcolonial Conflict and Cultural Memory

Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir

King's College, London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

30/06/2020

14

The personal and the political in diaspora writing

Dr. Hassan Abdulrazzak

University of London, Imperial College, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

28/07/2020

 

15

Answers to the Questions of My 3rd Year Students in Drama at the University of Anbar

Dr. Emma Smith

University of Oxford/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

08/04/2020

16

How to Write from Divine Inspiration

Dr. Amanda Williamson

University of Coventry/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

27/04/2020

17

Twelfth Night, Identity, Desire and Love

Dr. Timo Uotinen

Royal Holloway-University of London, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

29/04/2020

18

Text VS Performance

Prof. Dr. Johannes Birringer

Brunel University/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

03/05/2020

19

How Shakespeare Engaged with English History

Dr. Kit Heyam

King's College, London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

03/05/2020

20

Answers to the Questions of My 3rd Year Students in Drama at the University of Anbar

Dr. Sarah Grochala

University of London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

12/05/2020

21

The Disputed Authorship of Brendan Behan's 1958 Play The Hostage

Dr. David Clare

University of Limerick/Ireland

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

12/05/2020

22

Answers to the Questions of My 3rd Year Students in Drama at the University of Anbar

Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen

Mary Baldwin University/USA

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

24/05/2020

23

Literary Theory

Dr. Josh Cohen

Goldsmiths-University of London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

30/05/2020

24

Gossip, Ethics, and Victorian Novels

Dr. Maha Jafri

The University of the South/USA

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

04/05/2020

25

Butoh

Dr. Marie-Gabrielle Rotie

Goldsmiths-University of London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

22/06/2020

26

A Contribution to study Shakespeare for Students of English Dept.

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Duncan Salkeld

University of Chichester/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

24/06/2020

27

Contemporary Iraqi Women's Fiction of War and Lessons from my PHD Journey

Dr. Angham Abdullah

University of Cardiff, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

20/07/2020

28

Scotland and Scots: a linguistic journey

Dr. Robert McColl Millar

University of Aberdeen, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

30/07/2020

29

On Creativity

Dr. Jonathan P. Jones

New York University, USA

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

08/08/2020

30

Hamlet

Dr. Michael Dobson

University of Birmingham, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

19/02/2021

31

My Personal Experience of Theatre Directing: Arms and the Man as an Example

Emma Lucia

London Drama School, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

27/02/2021

32

Little' Magazines and America's Twentieth-Century Revolution of Words

Dr. Kate Hext

University of Exeter, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

04/02/2021

33

Key Strategies for Postgraduate Students

Dr. Dee Reynolds

University of Manchester, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

03/03/2021

34

Why Study Arabic Shakespeare

Dr. Margaret Litvin

University of Boston, USA

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

27/01/2021

35

How to Build a Good Relationship with Your Supervisor in the Time of Coronavirus

Dr. Emma Brodzinski

Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

03/02/2021

36

The Cold War, Its Aftermath, State Hegemony and the Artists

Dr. Aastha Gandi

Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

22/12/2020

37

Indian Cinema

Dr. Raminder Kaur

University of Sussex, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

22/02/2021

38

The Lost Generation: Learning in the Time of Covid-19

Dr. Laura Taggett

Lone Star College-CyFair, USA

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

17/12/2020

39

The Reception of Wuthering Heights

Dr. Kamilla Elliott

Lancaster University, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

21/11/2020

40

Academic Publishing in the USA

Dr. Marvin Carlson

New York University, USA

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

19/11/2020

41

Culture and Performance: What is Culture? What is Performance? The Performance of Race

Dr. Clare Finburgh

Goldsmiths University of London, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

03/12/2020

42

Understanding Shakespeare's Theatrical Culture

Dr. Pascale Aebischer

University of Exeter, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

22/10/2020

43

University of Anbar – Twelfth Night: Live Session with Dr Will Tosh

Dr. Will Tosh

Shakespeare's Globe, London

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

5/5/2021

44

Hands, Alligators (or Crocodiles?), and the Invisible: Theory and Practice in Translating Children's Literature

Dr. B. J. Epstein

University of East Anglia, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

11/5/2021

45

"if we do not name ourselves, we are nothing": Women and the New York Poetry Scene at Mid-Century

Dr. Rona Cran

University of Birmingham, UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

10/06/2021

46

Humor and Laughter in Irish Theatre

Dr. Eric Weitz

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

1/7/2021

 

47

The Ghost of Regeneration: Alexndra Badea's Points de non-retour [Quais de Seine] (2019)

Dr. Clare Finburgh Delijani

Goldsmiths-University of London/UK

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

27/10/2020

48

The Early Modern Medea

Dr. Katherine Heavey

University of Glasgow

Dr. Majeed M. Midhin

15/05/2020