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Istabraq Rafea Gharkan Ali (Assistant Lecturer)

MSc in Indigenous North American Poetry
lecturer
English - Arts
istabraqrafea@uoanbar.edu.iq

Biography

Name: Estabraq Rafea Gharkan Ali

Nationality: Iraqi

Social Status: Married

Address: Anbar/ Ramadi

Mobile No.: +964 7827935375

Academic E-mail: istabraqrafea@uoanbar.edu.iq

 

Job Information

2008-2014 Asst- translator at the University of Anbar/ College of Arts

2014- to the present Assit-lecturer at the University of Anbar/ College of Arts/ Dept. of English 

Publication

 

  1. Scopus- indexed Publications

Ali, A. H., Abdullah, A.A., Gharkan, E.R., & Suleiman. H. A. (2026). Investigating Morphosyntactic Patterns and Metaphorical Interpretation of Compound Words in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself: A Construction Morphology Approach. Arab World English Journal, 17(3): 189-210.

    DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol17no3.11

Ayyed, O. S., Hassan, M. F., Gharkan, E. R., & Otaiwi, S. I. (2026). A Postcolonial Reading of Modes of Resistance in Joy Harjo’s and Fadwa Tuqan’s Selected Poems. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages & Literatures, 18(2), 753–770. https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.18.2.13

  1. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Gharkan, E. R. (2025). Decolonizing the urban space in Duncan Mercredi’s selected poems. Al-Qadisiyah Journal for Humanities Sciences, 28(2), 21–40.

Gharkan, E. R., & Mohammed, M. H. (2025). The female body as decolonial theory and praxis in Heid E. Erdrich’s poetry through L. B. Simpson’s lens. Journal Of the Iraqia University, 75(1), 929-936.

Mohammed, M. H., & Gharkan, E. R. (2025). Poetics of mourning and exile in Abd Yagh?th’s L? tal?m?n?, kaf? al-lawmu m? biy? and “The Seafarer”: A comparative reading of pre-Islamic Arabic and Old English elegiac poetry. Journal of the College of Basic Education, 31(134), 67–87.

    https://doi.org/10.35950/cbej.v31i134.14320

Gharkan, E. R. & Otaiwi, S. I. (2024). Recentering the Indigenous perceptions of the wolf in selected Native American and Canadian poetry. Journal of Sustainable Studies, 6(4), 2977-2995.

Gharkan, E. R., & Otaiwi, S. I. (2024). The cultural politics of renaming in selected Native Canadian poems. Journal of AlMaarif University College, 35(3), 231–242. https://doi.org/10.51345/.v35i3.957.g480  

 3- Conference Papers

Gharkan, E. R., Mohammed, M. H., & Hakkoosh, M. H. (2025). Subverting the male gaze in Carol Ann Duffy’s selected poems in light of bell hooks’s concept of “the oppositional gaze.” In Proceedings of the Fourth International Scientific Conference on Social, Human, and Pure Sciences (Part 4, pp. 4786–4799). International Foundation for Books. ISBN 978-977-8850-47-5.

 

 

Lectures


No. Subjects Lectures Stage File Video
1 Seventeenth-Century English Poetry Cavalier Poetry/Richard Lovelace/Metaphysical Poet Second
2 American Poetry Pre-World War II American Poetry Fourth
3 English Victorian Novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens Third
4 Seventeenth-Century English Poetry Cavalier Poetry Second
5 English Poetry in the Neoclassical Age Overview of English Poetry in the Neoclassical Age Third
6 English Poetry in the Neoclassical Age The Renaissance Literature Vs. The Neoclassical Li Third
7 English Poetry in the Neoclassical Age Overview of Satire in the Neoclassical Age Third
8 English Poetry in the Neoclassical Age A Brief Biography of John Dryden and An Overview o Third
9 English Poetry in the Neoclassical Age John Dryden's Satirical Poetry Third
10 English Poetry in the Neoclassical Age John Dryden's Satirical Poetry(Part Two) Third
11 English Poetry in the Victorian Age Overview of English Poetry in the Victorian Age Fourth
12 English Poetry in the Victorian Age A Brief Biography of Alfred Lord, Tennyson and an Fourth
13 English Poetry in the Victorian Age Analysis of Alfred Lord, Tennyson's The Lady of S Fourth
14 English Poetry in the Victorian Age Analysis of Alfred Lord, Tennyson's The Lady of S Fourth
15 English Poetry in the Victorian Age Analysis of Alfred Lord, Tennyson's The Lady of Sh Fourth
16 English Poetry in the Victorian Age Analysis of Alfred Lord, Tennyson's The Lady of Sh Fourth
17 English Poetry in the Neoclassical Age Bibliography Third

Academic certificates

-Ph.D. in English Literature

University of Gezira, Sudan

2025

Dissertation: Reclaiming Indigenous Knowledge in Louise Bernice Halfe’s Selected Poems in Light of Walter D. Mignolo’s and Leanne B. Simpson’s Concepts

-M.A. in English Literature

University of Baghdad, Iraq

2014

Graduated with the highest academic ranking in the M.A. program.

-B.A. in English Language and Literature

University of Anbar, Iraq

2008

Graduated with the highest academic ranking in the B.A. program.

Supervision

1- Identity Construction in Selected Poems by Maya Anglou/ BA

2- Post 9/11 Representation of Muslim Women in Selected American Novel / BA

3- The Embodied Image of Post Modern Women by Sylvia Plath/ BA

4- Symbolism in Selected Poetry of Robert Frost/ BA

5- Racial Pride in Selected Poetry of Langston Hughes / BA

6- Revionist Mythmaking in Selected Poetry of Hilda Doolittle/ BA

Other

Participation in the 4th International Scientific Conference on Humanities, Social Sciences, and Pure Sciences, held at Qom Sacred University in cooperation with Al-Hamdaniya University, Al-Shatra University, Sumer University, and Harouf Foundation for Education Development

Supervision 

1- Identity Construction in Selected Poems by Maya Anglou/ BA

2- Post 9/11 Representation of Muslim Women in Selected American Novel / BA

3- The Embodied Image of Post Modern Women by Sylvia Plath/ BA

4- Symbolism in Selected Poetry of Robert Frost/ BA

5- Racial Pride in Selected Poetry of Langston Hughes / BA

6- Revionist Mythmaking in Selected Poetry of Hilda Doolittle/ BA