o Dr. John Wall received a BA (hons) degree in philosophy and English and an MA in philosophy from University College Cork Ireland in 1988 and 1991, respectively. In 1990, John was awarded an MA in philosophy and literature from the University of Warwick, UK and a PhD in English literature in 2000 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. John also received a post-graduate diploma in the pedagogy of English language and literature, and classical studies from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2013. From 1990 to 1994, John Wall conducted research for the Centre for European Social Research in Cork, Ireland into the implementation of educational technology as part of a European-wide educational program, teaching in the social sciences as part of his duties. John taught modernist and classical literatures at the Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus, 2002-2008 and contemporary poetry and classical literatures at the University of Balamand, Lebanon from 2009 to 2012. From 2014 to 2022, John was Associate Professor of English at the American University of Afghanistan, teaching courses in World Literature. He is currently Associate Professor of English at the American University of Iraq, Baghdad, teaching English Literature and Academic Writing. John has published articles on the poetics of the body in European modernism—Samuel Beckett and Tristan Tzara, in particular. He has edited two volumes of essays on the production of cultural space and the function of popular music in contemporary society, where his own contributions focused on notions of embodied space in post-modernist writing and musical composition. He has also worked on cross-disciplinary projects, contributing to published articles on IT and economics. John Wall’s current research explores literary aesthetics using Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of intensive space and metamorphosis. John writes fiction and has published one short story.
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Biography
o Dr. John Wall received a BA (hons) degree in philosophy and English and an MA in philosophy from University College Cork Ireland in 1988 and 1991, respectively. In 1990, John was awarded an MA in philosophy and literature from the University of Warwick, UK and a PhD in English literature in 2000 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. John also received a post-graduate diploma in the pedagogy of English language and literature, and classical studies from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2013. From 1990 to 1994, John Wall conducted research for the Centre for European Social Research in Cork, Ireland into the implementation of educational technology as part of a European-wide educational program, teaching in the social sciences as part of his duties. John taught modernist and classical literatures at the Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus, 2002-2008 and contemporary poetry and classical literatures at the University of Balamand, Lebanon from 2009 to 2012. From 2014 to 2022, John was Associate Professor of English at the American University of Afghanistan, teaching courses in World Literature. He is currently Associate Professor of English at the American University of Iraq, Baghdad, teaching English Literature and Academic Writing. John has published articles on the poetics of the body in European modernism—Samuel Beckett and Tristan Tzara, in particular. He has edited two volumes of essays on the production of cultural space and the function of popular music in contemporary society, where his own contributions focused on notions of embodied space in post-modernist writing and musical composition. He has also worked on cross-disciplinary projects, contributing to published articles on IT and economics. John Wall’s current research explores literary aesthetics using Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of intensive space and metamorphosis. John writes fiction and has published one short story.