Dr Niveen Kassem

• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), Durham University, UK 
• FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK)
• PhD (Literature ), Newcastle University, UK
• Mlitt, Newcastle University, UK

Niveen has taught a diverse range of subjects in both the UK and the Middle East, reflecting her interdisciplinary research work and interests. These subjects include literary and cultural studies, public history, translation, and Arabic language and culture

Niveen is happy to supervise postgraduate students intersected in the following areas:

• Middle Eastern Studies, including literary heritage and culture;
• Cultural trauma, memory and identity research with art and story-telling (including oral history);
• Representations of gender identity;
• comparative literature;
• translation studies;

For more than a decade, Niveen’s research work has focused on her interests and training across fields such as modern and historical literature and culture. She has studied the enduring legacy of historical trauma and its impact on the shaping of contemporary identities and memories of disenfranchised groups within the Middle East and American culture.

 In her PhD she worked on the under explored representations of black masculinity in African-American culture as depicted in the literary works of contemporary African-American writers to connect black manhood with the traumatic history of slavery. After the PhD, Niveen successfully completed an AHRC- funded project to extend her research interest in the legacy of historical trauma and its impact on the shaping of contemporary identities and memories of marginalised groups, with a particular focus on Middle Eastern culture to explore interconnected thematic areas, including collective memory and identity.

Alongside these activities Niveen maintains research interests in innovative and technology enhanced teaching and learning, and pedagogical strategies to promote autonomous learning.

• Visiting Researcher at Newcastle University, UK
• FHEA
•  Member of Cultures of Memory
•  Member of BATA ( British Association of Teachers of Arabic)