Chabha Ben Ali Amer

PhD in English and Creative Writing
Lancaster, UK

Contact Details:
N: +44 7732962271
Email: c.benaliamer@lancaster.ac.uk

Education

2017 Starting PhD in English literature and creative writing
•Institute: Lancaster University

2016/2017 Certificate of Pre-Sessional Programme in Academic English and Research Skills for PhD Study.
•Institute: Canterbury Christ Church University.
•Research Projects: Oral presentation of PhD Research project. Poster presentation (Group Project) of Hyperreality and its effects on the individual.

2015/2016 Master’s Certificate in Anglo-Saxon Literature
•Institute: University of Kasdi Merbah – Ouargla, Algeria
•Research Project: Death of the Author and Birth of the Reader in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure.

2013/2014 Bachelor’s Certificate in Literature and English Language
•Institute: University of Kasdi Merbah – Ouargla, Algeria
•Research Project: Stuttering and Disfluency in Children

2010/2011 Baccalaureate Certificate in Literature and Foreign Languages
•Institute: Mohammed El-Aid El-Khalifa High School

List of Achievements

2016 Best English Poem Award, National Contest, Kasdi Merbah University, Ouargla, Algeria.
2011 The Best Arabic Poem, Regional Award – Ouargla, Algeria.
2011 Certificate of Modern Poetry in French - Ait Hichem Carpet Festival, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria.

Conferences/ study days

2021 ASMCF Annual Study Day on (Im)mobilisation
2019 SFPS Annual Conference on Postcolonial Realms of Memory in the Francophone World
2019 MENAWA Study Day
2019 Algerian Literature as World Literature
2019 Queer Studies: Postgraduate Conference
2018 ASMCF Annual Conference
2018 MENAWA Study Day
2015 6th Student Study Day “ Rethinking Mechanisms of Identity Preservation within EFL Teaching and Learning
2014 5th Student Study Day “ Literature and EFL: How to improve your English through short stories, plays and poems”

Research outputs

Francophonie or Algérianophonie ? Rethinking Algerian literature en mouvance

Ben Ali Amer, C., 6/03/2021, (Unpublished).

The brother in-law (N’sibi): transcending corporeality in Algerian queer cinema

Ben Ali Amer, C., 20/01/2021, In: Cut To: The Lancaster University Film Journal. 1, p. 32-35 4 p.

Narrating the intimate: development of queer representations in Algerian Arabophone and Francophone literature

Ben Ali Amer, C., 2019, (Unpublished) Queer Studies, Postgraduate Conference. 10 p.

Sexual representations in Algerian Fiction: sexual discourse in a conservative Society

Ben Ali Amer, C., 22/06/2018, (Unpublished).

The New Algerian Literature at the Threshold of Globalization: Across National and Cultural Boundaries

Ben Ali Amer, C., 2018, (Unpublished). 8 p.

Rethinking Mechanisms of Identity Preservation within EFL Teaching and Learning

Ben Ali Amer, C., 2015, University of Ouargla Study Day.

Literature and EFL: How to improve your English through short stories, plays and poems?

Ben Ali Amer, C., 2014, (Unpublished) University of Ouargla study day.

Employment

2020 - present: Associate Lecturer- Lancaster University (Department of Languages and Cultures)

2019 - 2020: French Teacher - Lancaster University Preschool centre

2018 - 2019: Volunteering for Green Spaces and Animal Protection in Lake District, Wildlife Protection Organization.

February 2018-October 2018: Events Coordinator - Lancaster University Students’ Union

2017-2018: Executive editor - LUX: Journal of Undergraduate Students

September 2016 - September 2018: Translator/Interpreter - SARL MIS

April 2016 - August 2016: Administrative Assistant - SARL MIS (construction company). Ouargla, Algeria.

2013 – 2015: Language Tutor – Hassi School (School of Foreign Languages)
- Teaching English as a Second Language/Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) for Levels 3/4/5/6
- Teaching French language for level 8

2014 – 2015: Language Tutor – Hassi School (School of Foreign Languages)
- Teaching English for Children, Beginners Level, 2nd, 3rd and 4th levels
- Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Teaching French Language for levels 3 and 9

Language and Computing Skills

Office: Windows Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint…)

English
French
Arabic
German
Tamazight
Algerian Dialect/ other Arabic dialects

Research