Abdolmohammad Movahhed

Abdolmohammad Movahhed received his BA degree in English Language and Literature from Shiraz University (Iran) in 1995, MA degree in English Language and Literature from Tehran University in 1998, and PhD degree in English from Strathclyde University (Glasgow, UK) in 2009. His PhD thesis, entitled “Context and Constraints in Stanley Fish’s Reader-Response Theory” was supervised by Dr. Thomas Furniss and examined by Professor Derek Attridge. Before starting his PhD studies, he taught at Persian Gulf University (Bushehr, Iran) for seven years, and after completing his PhD, he returned to the same University, where he has been teaching and supervising students of English Language and Literature. Since 2013, he has supervised around 20 MA students who have successfully completed their work and graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature. He usually teaches A Survey of English Literature, Simple Poetry, English Poetry, History of Literary Criticism, and Approaches to Literary Criticism. His postgraduate teaching typically involves Literary Theory and Contemporary Poetry. He is interested in supervising students who would like to work in the following areas: Modern literary theory and criticism; colonial, postcolonial, and immigration literature; comparative literature and adaptation studies; and representations of power and/or religious belief in literature.