MURFREESBORO — An
MTSU professor will receive a $25,000 fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts for the translation of literature.
Dr. Mohammed Albakry, an associate professor of English and
applied linguistics and director of graduate admissions for the English
department, is one of only 16 people in the country to obtain the coveted
fellowship for fiscal year 2014.
Albakry will use his grant to support the translation from
Arabic to English of “Tahrir Plays and Performance Texts from the Egyptian
Revolution,” an anthology of six contemporary Egyptian plays written by
established and emerging playwrights.
“This is a very prestigious national honor that reflects the
high quality of Dr. Albakry's scholarship,” said Dr. Mark Byrnes, dean of the
MTSU College of Liberal Arts.
A recipient of the MTSU Foundation’s Outstanding Teacher
Award in 2010, Albakry was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Morocco in 2012.
His main research and teaching interests are in the areas of corpus
linguistics, sociolinguistics, critical discourse studies and English grammar.
He also is interested in Anglophone Arab literature,
stylistics of literary translation and language and identity politics in Africa
and the Middle East.
Rebekah Maggor, an assistant professor in the Department of
Theatre & Dance at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., will collaborate
with Albakry on the project.
This year’s 16 NEA grants total $250,000 to 16 translators
to support the translation of works into English from 13 languages and 15
countries.
Since 1982, the NEA has awarded 355 translation fellowships
for works in 62 languages from 78 countries. The recommended projects range
from poetry and novels to short stories, plays and creative nonfiction.
Albakry recently returned from
Illinois after participating in a three-week institute funded by the National Endowment
of the Humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
For the 2013-14 academic year,
Albakry also has been awarded a Faculty Residential Fellowship at the
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.
For more information, contact Albakry at 615-494-8658 or mohammed.albakry@mtsu.edu.
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