Assistant Professor at Sultan Qaboos University (College of Arts & Social Sciences, Department of English – Oman).
Title: From the Ivory Tower to the Marketplace:
Reorienting Literature Education in the Age of Sustainability and Service-learning
Dr. Mounir Ben Zid received his M.A and Ph.D in British literature from the Sorbonne University (France). His doctoral thesis was on the romantic poet William Wordsworth. The title of his doctoral dissertation was: The Quest for Happiness in William Wordsworth. Dr. Mounir has published several articles which explore the interface between linguistics and literature and translated several poems from Arabic into English and French