Biography

: Dr. Abdulla earned his B.A. (summa cum laude) from Mosul University, and then his M.A., M.A.T., and Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. He has taught literature, translation, history of literary criticism, and stylistics in the USA, Iraq, Jordan, and the UAE. Some of his publications include Catharsis in Literature (Indiana University Press, 1985), History of Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reader (Mosul University Press, 1989) and a co-translation with William Elliott of the medieval of the medieval mystical manuscript, The Attractions of Mystical Sessions (Bucks: Avebury, 1980). His articles have appeared in Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature and Babel.