ENGY ASHOUR ESMAIL ESMAIL TORKY 

Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature

                    Department of English Language and Literature

Faculty of Arts

Suez University

Former Fulbright Visiting Scholar

Near Eastern Studies Dept., UC, Berkeley

Cell No. (+2) 01003146618

Home No. (+2)050-2202849

                     (+2) 02-24760304

E-mail: enjy.fulbright2016@gmail.com

          engy.torky@suezuni.edu.eg

 

Academic Education and Qualifications:

• PH.D. in Literature from Minia University, Faculty of Arts, Department of English Language and Literature with 'First Class Honor' on Jan. 2013
• Certificate of Completion of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award on March, 2017
• Foundation Certificate for Translation and Interpreting at the School of Continuing Education, American University in Cairo (AUC), with GPA 3.43 on April 27, 2016
• TKT Certificate, ESOL Examinations, Cambridge University, on March 2010
• M.A. in American Literature from Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, Department of English Language and Literature with 'Excellent' grade on June 2008
• Bachelor of Arts from Mansoura University, Faculty of Arts, Department of English Language and Literature with 'Good' grade on May 1999 

 

Academic Professional History:

        Full Time Academic Jobs:

• Assistant Professor of English Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Suez University from April 29, 2018 up till now.
• Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Languages, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (SAMS), Port-Said branch, from April 2014 up April 2018.
• Assistant Professor of English in Specialized Studies Academy, Mansoura branch from August 2013 to March 2014
• Assistant Professor of English in Specialized Studies Academy, Mansoura branch from Sept.  2009 to July 2013
• Language instructor of English in Specialized Studies Academy, Mansoura branch from Feb. 2005 to August 2009
• Language instructor of English in Specialized Studies Academy, Damietta branch  from Nov. 2001 to Jan. 2005
• Translator in E.S.P.R.C (English for Specific Purposes Research Center), Mansoura University from Sept. 1999 to Sept. 2001

 

 Part Time Academic Jobs:

• Part-time Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Faculty of Languages and Translation, October 6 University for the academic year 2013-14. My main responsibilities were teaching novel course to second-year students, correcting their assignments, preparing mid-year and final exams, etc.
• Part-time English Language instructor in the first and second phase in Edu. Egypt third programme, New Horizons from August 2013 to Sept. 2013
• Part-time Assistant Professor of English at the High Institute of Technology and Engineering, Nile Academy for the academic year 2012-13. Also, responsible for compiling and preparing an English course book: English Language 2: Basic English Grammar and Various Language Skills
• Part-time English Language trainer in EGYLEARN Company during mid-year vacation (Jan. 2013). My main responsibilities were training students of Faculty of Education how to be successful English Language teachers, how to utilize various methodological techniques, etc. 
• Part-time English Language instructor in phase one in MCIT Programme, under the supervision of Michigan College from Dec. 2, 2010 to Dec. 23, 2010

 

Courses Taught:

• Teaching undergraduate students in the English stream at Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (SAMS), Maadi Branch: Collins English for Business: Reading.
• Teaching undergraduate students in the Arabic stream at Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (SAMS), Port Said Branch:  Preparation for TOEFL Test for grade 4, English for Business communication for grade 2, Essentials for Business Communication for grade 3, etc. 
• Teaching undergraduate students in the English Department at Specialized Studies Academy: English for Industrial Engineering for grade 1 and 3, and English for Business studies for grade 2
• Teaching undergraduate students in the Faculty of Languages at October 6 University: Novel for grade 2 (Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews)
• Teaching general courses at Edu. Egypt third programme, New Horizons: Top Notch 2 and 3
• Teaching basic English grammar and language skills at High Institute of Technology and Engineering:  English Language 2: Basic English Grammar and Various Language Skills
• Having taught business English at MCIT programme: Business English: Interact and Communicate 

 

Professional Activities and Volunteer Work: 

• Participating with a Pre-departure Orientation Session for scholar guarantees in the main office of Binational Fulbright Commission on July 9, 2018.
• Participating with a Pre-departure Orientation Session for scholar guarantees in the main office of Binational Fulbright Commission on July 17, 2017.

 

• Participating in the Writing Group, conducted by Visiting Scholars Dept. at UC, Berkeley to give feedback regarding research projects or ideas
• Taking part in preparing the bylaws of the Faculty of Languages and Translation which Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (SAMS) in cooperation with the Department of Languages plan to set up by the new academic year
• Coordinating an 'Orientation Session' held by DAAD Institution on Feb. 16, 2015 at Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (SAMS)
• Coordinator of TOEFL course in the English Department at Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (SAMS) for the Academic year 2014 /2015

 

Administrative Employment History:

• Part-time invigilator in IGSCE Examinations at the British Council, Mansoura     College location from April 2010 to April 2012

 

Awards: 

• Having been selected as a principal candidate for the AY2016-17 Fulbright Egyptian Program (starting from Sept. 1, 2016 and ending at March 2, 2017). I conducted the research at Near Eastern Studies Dept., UC, Berkeley. They were six months of not only academic achievements but cultural as well

http://www.cies.org/grantee/engy-ashour-esmail-esmail-torky

• Having been selected in the TKT scholarship conducted by British Council, Egypt and Cambridge University from Jan. 10, 2010 to March 10, 2010 with net training hours of 120. 

 

Training Programmes, Conferences and Public Events:

• Attending the reception and press event and a ceremony celebrating the 70^th anniversary of the global Fulbright program on May 21, 2017. 
• Attending with the Fulbright Commission an event at Stanford University on Feb. 27, 2017, entitled with “Approaches to the Environment: How Far We've Come”
• Attending “No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity” talk on Feb. 9, 2017, conducted by Center for Race and Gender, UC, Berkeley
• Attending “Remapping Homelands: Cultural Production Across Borders” on Nov. 17, 2016, conducted by Center for Race and Gender, UC, Berkeley
• Attending “Fatema Mernissi for Our Times” conference on Oct.7, 2016, conducted by the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC, Berkeley
• Attending Fulbright Enrichment Seminar entitled “The New South: Visions, Voices and Change Agents” in Alabama, Montgomery from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 2016, where I attended a lot of lectures, events and visited Jackson House – the place where Martin Luther King started to conduct his meetings regarding black activism.  
• Attending the 19th TESOL Conference / AUC on Jan. 26-27, 2015
• Attending the Twelfth International Symposium of Comparative Literature, entitled "Literature and Language of Resistance," at Cairo University on Nov.11-13, 2014
• Attending "To Kill a Mockingbird: A Challenging Translation" by Dr. Dalia El-Shayal at the Humanities Circle at the Bi-national Fulbright Commission in Egypt on Nov.5, 2014.
• Attending Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the American University in Egypt: "Ways of Dwelling: Edward Said and the Travelling Text" by Marina Warner on Oct. 30, 2014.
• Attending Nile TESOL PDF Event at the British Council, Agouza Branch on Sept. 27, 2014
• Attending Translation Project Workshop, under the title of 'Cultural Politics of Translation,' on April 28, 2014
• Attending Nile TESOL/ AUC Conference XVIII on Jan. 28-29, 2014
• Attending the First International Conference on Language, Literature and Translation in Women's College, Ain Shams University from Feb. 3, 2014 to Feb. 6, 2014
• Attending the Nile TESOL Workshop at the British Council, Agouza Branch on May 11, 2013
• Attending the Training programme 'TOT,' Training of Trainers, from Feb. 28 to March 12, 2013 at Cairo University with net training hours of 50
• Attending the Nile TESOL / AUC Conference XVII (Jan. 28-29, 2013)
• Attending the Eleventh International Symposium on Comparative Literature organized by the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts from Nov. 13 to Nov. 15, 2012
• Attending IELTS Preparation Course at the British Council, Heliopolis branch, Egypt from March 22 to May 22, 2012 
• Attending the Nile TESOL / AUC Conference XVI on Jan. 31, 2012.
• Attending for two subsequent years two-hours training sessions regarding the duties of the invigilator at the British council, Agouza branch, Egypt 
• Achieving TOEFL score of 567 at AMIDEAST, Dokki branch, Egypt
• Attending Conversation courses (CON7-Advanced level) at the British Council, Heliopolis Branch

 

Talks and Presentations:

• Participating with a presentation, entitled “Navigating Distorted Territories: ‘Trauma, Memory and History’ in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul,” in the Politics of Space and Humanities Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece on Dec. 15, 2017: 

www.enl.auth.gr/files/99999_Program2017.pdf

 

• Participating with ten-minutes presentation in  3^rd Fulbright Annual Alumni Conference that was held at the Conrad hotel on October 22, 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUCSSF8plR0

 

• Giving a talk, entitled “Unveiling the Veiled in Marjane Satrapi’s Two-Volume Graphic Memoir Persepolis and Rajaa AlSanea’s Girls of Riyadh: a Revolutionary Perspective, in the Gender Studies Dept., UCLA on Feb.7, 2017:

http://www.genderstudies.ucla.edu/event/unveiling-veiled-marjane-satrapis-two-volume-graphic-memoir-persepolis-and-rajaa-alsaneas

 

• Giving a talk, entitled “Unveiling the Veiled in Marjane Satrapi's Graphic Memoir Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2 and Rajaa Alsanea's Girls of Riyadh: a Revolutionary Perspective,” in Near Eastern Studies Dept., UC, Berkeley on Nov.22, 2016:

http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/nes.html?event_ID=104023&date=2016-11-22

 

• Participating with a Presentation entitled “A Voice from Africa: Craig Higginson’s Dream of the Dog Fluctuating between the Blanket of Reconciliation and Irreconciliation” at PAMLA Conference, Pasadena, California on Nov.13,2016:

https://www.pamla.org/2016/proposals/voice-africa-craig-higginsons-dream-dog-fluctuating-between-blanket-reconciliation

 

Publications:

• A paper entitled “Unveiling the Veiled: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Persepolis 2 and Rajaa Alsanea’s Girls of Riyadh: A Revolutionary Perspective” forthcoming in Hermes Journal, issue no. 26 on October 2018:

http://erepository.cu.edu.eg/index.php/hermes/about

 

•   A paper entitled “Navigating Distorted Territories: ‘Trauma, Memory and History   in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul” in process.

 

• A published PHD Thesis, entitled 'Negotiating Asian-American's Image in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, Bondage, F.O.B and Philip Kan Gotanda's Yankee Dawg You Die, Fish Head Soup, Sisters Matsumoto,' was published as a hardcover book by Lambert Academic Publishing Foundation under the title of  'Negotiating Asian-American's Image: Dissecting Some Selected Plays by David Henry Hwang and Philip Kan Gotanda.' It is now available at Amazon website and bookstores:

https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AEngy%20Ashour%20Torky

 

Research Interests:

Post-colonial studies, Multiculturalism, Asian-American Drama, Persian Literature, Arabic Literature, African Drama, Diaspora literature, latest adopted techniques and strategies in teaching English as a second language, etc.

 

Recent Academic Activities:

Starting a new research project about the history of South Africa and the role of    the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the post-apartheid South Africa. The abstract of the research is accepted for presentation in the forthcoming International Symposium on   Comparative Literature: Writing Across Borders that will be held at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University from Nov. 13 to Nov. 15, 2018.   

 

 

Social and Cultural Activities:          

• Joining the Celebrations of the New Chinese Year with members of the Fulbright Commission at San Francisco, on Feb.11, 2017, where we visited Chinese museum, knew a lot of history of Chinese immigrants to the United States of America.  
• Participating in SF Community Day for Visiting Researchers, organized by the Fulbright Commission on Jan. 18, 2017.   
• Being interviewed by Council of Exchange of Scholars [CIES] to share my fruitful experiences in the United States (Blog Writing):                                                                                         

http://www.cies.org/article/interview-engy-tokry-fulbright-visiting-scholar-egypt

 

 Personal Traits and Social Skills:

Co-operative, flexible, self-motivated, working under pressure and meet deadlines, adjusting to new people and dealing with challenging situations, etc.

Referees:

•    Prof. Mohamed M. Enani

       Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature

       Faculty of Arts, Cairo University

       Cell No. (+2) 01224444664

                      (+2) 01001576736

       Home No. (+2) 02-37490234

•      Prof. Wali Ahmadi

       Professor of Persian Literature

      Near Eastern Studies Dept., UC, Berkeley

      Phone: (510) 643-6164

      Email: ahmadi@berkeley.edu

•    Prof. Ghada Mamdouh Abdel Hafeez

    Professor of English Literature

   Former Chair of English Language and Literature Department

   Faculty of Arts, Minia University

   Professor at English Dept., Arab Open University (Bahrain Branch) 

  Cell No. (+2) 01227331956

                (+973)36604985

   E-mail: ghadam64@hotmail.com

                gabdelhafeez@mu.edu.eg     

•     Assoc. Prof. El-Hussein Aly

   Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics

   Faculty of Arts, Helwan University

  Consultant of Translation Programme at AUC

                 Former Director of Translation Programme at AUC

      Cell No. (+2) 01001062687

      E-mail: husinaly@aucegypt.edu

•   Dr. Ahmad Abdel Tawaab Sharaf Eldin 

       Assistant Professor of English Language and Linguistics

      Faculty of Arts, Monufeyia University 

Cell No. (+2) 01069403477 

  E-mail: brave107@yahoo.com