Dr. Mohammed Albakry is a professor of English Linguistics at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). He teaches various linguistics and language education courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. A former Fulbright Scholar, his work has garnered grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute, and the Hanban Center of Language Education. His authored and edited books include Writing Recommendation Letters; Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts, and Politics; Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution; and, more recently, Presentation of Self in Academic Support Genres (Michigan University Press, 2025). He has also authored and co-authored numerous articles in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals (such as World Englishes, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Language and Literature, and Text & Talk, among other venues) and contributed several chapters to edited volumes focused on corpus linguistics, translation studies, and sociolinguistics. He has served on the review boards of numerous journals and grant foundations, including the NEA Advisory Panel and the National Fulbright Scholar Review Committee, among other professional services. Dr. Albakry has been invited to give keynote and plenary talks at many US and overseas institutions, including the University of Kansas, Barnard College, and Duke University, as well as different universities in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Ghana, and China. He is the host of the education podcast "OnTranslation," a podcast covering translation issues from the classical past to the global present. 

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Recent Publications

Presentation of self in academic support genres: Job application statements. (2005). Michigan University Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Writing recommendation letters: The discourse of evaluation in academic settings. (2024). Michigan University Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan.  

Navigating academic arguments: Teaching reporting verbs in transitional reading courses. (2024). Journal of College Reading and Learning. 

Effect of formulaic sequences on fluency of English learners in standardized speaking tests. (2021). Language Learning & Technology, 25 (2), 26-41. 

Beyond assimilation and othering: Theater translation and the translator’s agency (2020). In the Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation. 

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