Faculty

Dr. Richard Alexander Arnold
Professor of English, Director of English Studies
College of Science and General Studies
Alfaisal University
Riyadh, KSA

Email: rarnold@alfaisal.edu
Tel : +(966-1) 215-7729 office

Education:
Ph.D.	1983	University of Edinburgh, UK, Rhetoric and English Literature
M.A.	1980	McMaster University, Canada, English Literature
B.A.	1979	McMaster University, Canada, English

Research Interests:

Hymnology; rhetoric, argument, and persuasion embedded within popular multidisciplinary texts; the relationship between words and music; popular culture; theological and religious writings; editing and editorial theory; literary theory; English literature and aesthetic theory of the 17th to 20th centuries; Medieval literature, and Canadian literature; theories of narrative; creative writing; distinctions between [auto]biography, fiction, and meta-fiction.

Awards and Recognition:

National McLean’s Survey of Universities , “Most Popular Profs” (Canada, 2001-2007)
Canadian University Distinguished Teaching Award (Lethbridge, 1992)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research Grant (1995-1999)
Fellow, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities (1988)
Faculty of Arts Club Appreciation Award (Singapore, 1984)
United Kingdom Commonwealth Scholarship in English Literature (1980-1983)
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1980, declined)

Current projects:

“A ZERO-SUM GAME”, a novel-screenplay
“Trinity of Discord: Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper”
“The Human Imagination: An Annotated Historical and Critical Study”
“The Hymn in Scotland: A Social and Political History”

Publications: (Last five years )
Books :

CRYSTALLINE GEMS OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE (Riyadh: Ministry of Islamic Affairs, 2009)
Logic of the Fall: Right Reason and [Im]pure Reason in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” (New York, 2006).
English Hymns of the Nineteenth Century (New York, 2005)
The English Hymn: Studies in a Genre (New York, 1995)
English Hymns of the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1992)

Teaching:

Alfaisal University, Riyadh, KSA
Undergraduate courses :

Rhetoric and Effective Writing
Oral Communication and Literature

University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada, 1985-2007)

English Language and Literature
The World of Words
Rhetoric and Argument; Poetry
17th & 18th-Century Literature
Restoration & 18th-Century
18th-Century Poetry
Romantic Poetry; Romanticism
Rise of the Novel
Satire; Practical Criticism
Post-Colonial Literature
Literary Theory, Advanced Rhetoric
Figures: Blake; Defoe; Johnson; Pope; Chaucer

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