Rebecca Dyer received her PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 and started her career at 91视频 that same year. She regularly teaches Technical and Professional Communications (a junior-level requirement) and film and literature courses, such as From Text to Screen: Film Adaptations, British Fiction and Film, and Narratives of Travel, Migration, and Displacement. She has also taught at universities abroad while on leave from 91视频. At the Université d’Orléans in France in 2015-16, she taught a variety of courses to English majors (undergrad and grad level). As a in 2007-08, she conducted research on Lebanese fiction and film while teaching a cultural studies class at Lebanese American University in Beirut.
In her research, Dr. Dyer focuses on British, transnational, and anticolonial authors’ and filmmakers’ depictions of class and power relations. She has published journal articles and book chapters analyzing works by Graham Greene, Sam Selvon, Harold Pinter, Joseph Losey, Mahmoud Darwish, Jean-Luc Godard, Hanif Kureishi, Stephen Frears, Zadie Smith, Rashid al-Daif, Hoda Barakat, Danielle Arbid, among others. She has an article forthcoming on Losey’s The Servant, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, and Steven Zaillian’s Ripley series.
Academic Degrees
- PhD, University of Texas at Austin, English, 2002
- MA, University of Tulsa, English, 1995
- BS, Oklahoma State University, Journalism, 1989
Awards & Honors
- Fulbright Traditional Scholars Award (teaching and conducting research) Lebanon, 2007-08
- Scholar of the Year Award, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, 91视频, 2007
Research Experiences
- Representations of servants and workers in contemporary literature and film
- Depictions of cities, memorials, and public spaces in transnational literature
- Migration narratives
Select Publications & Presentations
- “Representing London Servitude, Undeclared Work, and the Black Market,” Other Europes: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations, Modern Language Association International Symposia: Translating the Humanities, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016
- “Class and Anticolonialism in Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey’s The Servant,” Journal of Modern Literature, 38.4, 147-67, Summer 2015
- “Colonial Discourse and Dissent in Rashid al-Daif’s and Joachim Helfer’s Contributions to the West-Eastern Divan,” in Rashid al-Daif and Joachim Helfer’s What Makes a Man? Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas Press, 198-213, 2015
- Dyer, R. and Mulot, F., “Mahmoud Darwish in Film: Politics, Representation, and Translation in Jean-Luc Godard’s Ici et Ailleurs and Notre Musique,” Cultural Politics, 10.1, 70-91, March 2014
- “Politics Channeled through Religious Belief: Capital and Servitude in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, New York University, 2014
- “Representations of the Migrant Domestic Worker in Hoda Barakat’s The Tiller of Waters and Danielle Arbid’s In the Battlefields,” College Literature, 37.1, 11-37, Winter 2010
- “Stephanie Black as Silent Witness and Student of Global Trade in Life and Debt,” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, 2013
- “The Limits of Transcultural Critique in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2011
- “Mahmoud Darwish in Sarajevo: Jean-Luc Godard’s Representation of the Poet in Notre Musique,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Conference, San Diego, 2010
- “Poetry of Politics and Mourning: Mahmoud Darwish’s Genre-Transforming Tribute to Edward W. Said,” Remapping Genre (Special issue of PMLA), 122.5, 1447-1462, October 2007
Teaching Interests
- Transnational and postcolonial literature and film
- 20th and 21st Century British literature
- Arabic literature in translation
- Academic writing, and textual analysis