

Taymaa Hussein Kheirbek
LecturerDepartment of English
- PhD Granada university
M.A. University of Baghdad
BA Al-Turath University - Email: [email protected]
- Office: B-F2-04
Profile
Taymaa has been a faculty member at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) since 2019. She started her teaching career in 2009 as an English Literature Professor in the English Department / College of Education/ University of Sulaimani. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Al-Turath University, Baghdad, in 2005, and her Master’s degree in English Literature, with a specialization in children’s literature, from the University of Baghdad in 2008. In 2017, she was awarded a PhD in English Literature, also specializing in children’s literature, from the University of Granada, Spain.

Publications
- ‘Focalization in Hans Christian Anderson’s Selected Fairy Tales’, Journal of University of Sulaimani/ Part B (2025)
- ‘Magic Reflection of Religion in Garth Nix’s Sabriel’, Journal of Koya University (2024)
- ‘Acting Places or Places of Action: Gardens in Grimm Brothers’ Children’s and Household Tales’, Journal of University of Sulaimani/ Part B/ 72 (2023)
- ‘Glorifying War in Iraqi Children’s Short Stories (1980s)’, Journal of Koya University (2021)
- ‘A Comparative Analysis of the Conversational Elements in Coleridge’s ‘Frost at Midnight’ and Al-Sayyab’s ‘Marha Ghailan’’, METATHESIS: Journal (2021)
- ‘An Eco-feminist Comparison of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple’, Journal of Surrra Man Raa (2021)
- ‘The Use and Symbolism of Animals in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, Language Literacy Journal (2020)
- ‘There is No Place Like Home: Comparative Study of Home in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Peter and Wendy’, Journal of Languages, Baghdad University (2017)