Dr. Mohammed Albakry
Professor
Departments / Programs
Degree Information
- PHD, Northern Arizona University (2005)
- MA, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2001)
- MA, Alexandria University (1995)
- BA, Alexandria University (1994)
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
- English for Academic Purposes
- Language Teaching and Learning
- Translation Studies
- English as a Global Language
Biography
Dr. Mohammed Albakry is a professor of English Linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University. His research in language studies is interdisciplinary and often takes up the intersection between discourse and society, language and education, and translation theory and practice. He has taught and lectured extensively at universities in Egypt, Morocco, and China, and directed numerous PhD dissertations and MA/honors theses. His instruction has won the Outstanding Teaching Award f...
Read More »Dr. Mohammed Albakry is a professor of English Linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University. His research in language studies is interdisciplinary and often takes up the intersection between discourse and society, language and education, and translation theory and practice. He has taught and lectured extensively at universities in Egypt, Morocco, and China, and directed numerous PhD dissertations and MA/honors theses. His instruction has won the Outstanding Teaching Award from the MTSU Foundation, and his work has been awarded grants and fellowships from Fulbright; The University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute; Hanban Confucius Institute; and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). He has published refereed articles in such journals as World Englishes; English World-Wide; Educational Theory; Language & Literature; and Text & Talk, among other journals. His book publications include Writing Recommendation Letters: The Discourse of Evaluation in Academic Settings (Michigan University Press, 2024); "Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts, and Politics" (Palgrave Macmillan); and "Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution" (Seagull Books/University of Chicago Press). He also engages in occasional public-facing writing for media outlets. A practicing translator, he hosts "OnTranslation," an education podcast dedicated to the discussion of the linguistic and cultural issues and controversies of translation from the classical past to the global present.
Publications
Recent Publications
Book
Writing recommendation letters: The discourse of evaluation in academic settings. (2024). With Clint Bryan. Michigan University Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
Effect of formulaic sequences on fluency of English learners in standardized speaking tests. (2021). With Jennifer Francois.&nbs...
Read More »Recent Publications
Book
Writing recommendation letters: The discourse of evaluation in academic settings. (2024). With Clint Bryan. Michigan University Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
Effect of formulaic sequences on fluency of English learners in standardized speaking tests. (2021). With Jennifer Francois. Language Learning & Technology, 25 (2), 26-41.
Building a corpus-based interdisciplinary vocabulary model in university reading support courses. (2021). With Tim Nelson. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 51(1), 17-33.
Beyond assimilation and othering: Theater translation and the translator’s agency (2020). In Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation (pp. 270-282). Taylor & Francis. London and NY.
In the Media
(2022, Dec. 5). On writing and decoding recommendation letters. Inside Higher Ed.
(2022, Dec. 8). Tennessee Constitution and its amendments have a language problem. The Tennessean.
(2019, Jan. 29). Interview on MTSU’s “On the Record” on the discipline of translation studies.