Publications

Selected Publications Articles (Peer-Reviewed)

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Katherine Mansfield’s Alternative Selves in 'Bliss' and 'The Garden Party’’. The Scientific Journal of Cihan University Sulaimanyia (SJCUS) Vol 3:2, December 2019, ISSN 2520- 7377 (Online), ISSN 2520- 5102 (Print)

available online: https://sj.sulicihan.edu.krd/katherine - Mansfields-alternative-selves-in-bliss-and-the-garden-party/ 

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Jamesian and Bergsonian Stream of Consciousness in Katherine Mansfield's 'Prelude' (1918)’. Sulaimanyia University Journal  Sulaimanyia (JZS- B) Vol 20:3, December 2019, ISSN 1813- 0852 (Print), ISSN 2617- 3034 (Online)

available online: https://jzsb.univsul.edu.iq/issues/vol20n3/jzsb-10931 

Sher Ali H, Saeed A. 'The Pedagogical Use of Animated Themes in Teaching English Fiction at University Level'. Zanco Journal of Humanity Science (JAHS) Salahaddin University-Erbil. Vol. 24(4): 247 -257. November 2020, ISSN 2412-396X (Online), ISSN 2218-0222

(Print) available online: https://zancojournal.su.edu.krd/index.php/JAHS/article/view/3370 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.24.4.15 

Abdulqadr, K. S., Sharif, R. H., Omer, R. J., Saeed, A. A., & Abdul, Z. K. (2021). 'Disney Classics between Feminism and Victimization of Women: A Historical Analysis'. Technium Social Sciences Journal. Vol. 21:1, July 2021. pp. 833-839. ISSN (online): 2668-7798. Online: https://doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v21i1.3853 

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'The Impetus of Love as Creative Evolution: Exploring Henri Bergson's Politics of Love in Katherine Mansfield's 'A Cup of Tea''. Tinakori: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society. Issue 5. 2021. pp. 41- 53. ISSN 2514- 6106. (Katherine Mansfield Society, UK) Available online: https://katherinemansfieldsociety.org/publications/tinakori/ 

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'From Supernatural to Psychological: A Historical Study of the Concept of the 'Fantastic' in Hoffmann’s 'The Sandman' and Poe’s 'The Tell-Tale Heart''. Journal of the University of Human Development (JUHD). Vol. 8 No. 3 (6thJuly 2022) Online: https://journals.uhd.edu.iq/index.php/juhd/article/view/962 

Muhammad Ahmad, Shaimaa, & Ali Saeed, Alan. 'When Memories Haunt: A Psychological Approach to Trauma in Hosseini's The Kite Runner'. Journal of Al-Anbar University for Language and Literature, Issue 36, June 2022 pp. 617-631, ISSN: 2073  6614. Online: https://www.iasj.net/iasj/download/ccb57d0e7b9f2820   

Sharif, H. R., and A. A. Saeed. “The Fear of Freedom in Hyperreality and Its Adverse Effect on Identity in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho”. Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 5, no. 1, June 2022, pp. 94-100, Online doi:https://doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v5n1y2022.pp94-100

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Satire in Modernism: A Comparative Study of T.S. Eliot's ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ and Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow'. ZANCO Journal of Humanity Sciences (ZJHS), Salahaddin University-Erbil..Vol. 27 No. 2 April 2023) Online: https://zancojournal.su.edu.krd/index.php/JAHS/article/view/388 

Interviews/ Conversations

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'A Conversation with Philip Tew: from Critic to Novelist, from Reading London to Writing London', The Literary London Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Autumn 2020): 709. (Literary London Society, UK) Online: http://literarylondon.org/the-literary-london-journal/current-issue/ 

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'On Expatriatism, Writing and Brief Shining Moments: An Interview with Alesa Lightbourne, author of The Kurdish Bike'. The Bosphorus Review of Books. Issue 26. (May 2021). (Turkey) Online: https://bosphorusreview.com/of-expatriatism-writing-and-brief-shining-moments-an-interview-withalesa-lightbourne-author-ofthe-kurdish-bike 

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Literary Podcasting and the Arab World Through Books: An Interview with Ursula Lindsey and Marcia Lynx Qualey', Co-creators of the Bulaq Podcast. The Bosphorus Review of Books. Issue 27. (July 2021). (Turkey) Online: https://bosphorusreview.com/interview-withursula-lindsey-and-marcia-lynx-qualey   

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Reflections on Teaching Mrs. Dalloway in Iraqi Kurdistan: An Interview with Steven Barfield: Part I' The Modernist Review. Issue35. The Transnational. (8th November 2021) (British Association for Modernist Studies). Online: https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/reflections-on-teaching-mrs-dalloway-in-iraqi-kurdistan-an-interview-with-steven-barfield-part-1/ 

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Reflections on Teaching Mrs. Dalloway in Iraqi Kurdistan: An Interview with Steven Barfield: Part 2' The Modernist Review. Issue 36 (6th December 2021) (British Association for Modernist Studies).Online: https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2021/12/06/reflections-on-teaching-mrs-dalloway-in-iraqi-kurdistan-an-interview-with-steven-barfield-part-2/ 

Saeed, Alan Ali and Hisên, Rewşen (in conversation). 'Animal Farm in Kurdistan' Orwell Society Journal, 19. pp. 33- 36 (Autumn 2021) (The Orwell Society, UK) Online: https://orwellsociety.com/about-the-society/orwell-society-journal/  

Saeed, Alan A. “A History of The Slemani International Film Festival: An Interview With Hemn Hussein, Director of Communication for the Festival”. Journal of Festive Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, Feb. 2023, pp. 135-43, doi:10.33823/jfs.2022.4.1.125. Online: https://journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/view/125 / https://journals.h-net.org/jfs/issue/view/11 

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'An Interview with Gian Sardar, author of Take What You Can Carry: A Novel'. The Bosphorus Review of Books. (September 2023). (Turkey) Online: https://bosphorusreview.com/interview-gian-sardar 

Book Reviews

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Review of ORWELL',

ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Journal, Volume 12, Issue 3 (Autumn 2021). (University of Florida, USA) Online: https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-orwell/  

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Review: Temple of Refuge by Sartep Namiq, Bruce Sterling, Matthias Zuber, (illustrator) Felix Mertikat.' The Bosphorus Review of Books. Issue 29. (November 2021). (Turkey) Online: https://bosphorusreview.com/review-temple-of-refuge   

Saeed, Alan Ali. 'Review of Adam Guy, The nouveau roman and Writing in Britain After Modernism'. Journal of Literature and Aesthetics. Vol. 31,  Issue 1 (2021) pp. 148- 151. ISSN: 2200- 0437 (University of Sydney, Australia) Available as a PDF. Online: https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/LA/article/view/15683 

Saeed, Alan Ali. Review of Take What You Can Carry: A Novel, by Gian Sardar. Prairie Schooner, vol. 95 no. 4, 2021, p. 154-155. (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA) .Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/psg.2021.0097. Online: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49348 

Ali Saeed, A. (2022). 'Review of Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students (5th ed.)’. REFLections, Vol. 29, Issue 1, (2022) pp. 247-249. ISSN 1513- 5934 (print) ISSN 2651- 1479 (online). (King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand.) Online: https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/reflections/article/view/258955 

Ali Saeed, A. ‘Review of Todd Martin (ed.) The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield’. New Academia: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory. Vol. XII, issue iii, (July 2023) pp.1-4. ISSN 2347-2073 (online) (Barloni Books, India) Online: https://interactionsforum.com/new-academia-volume-xii-2023/new-academia-vol-xii-issue-iii-july-2023

Ali Saeed, A. (2024). 'Review of English for Business Communication.' REFLections, Vol. 31. Issue 1 (2024). pp. 328-330 ISSN 1513- 5934 (print) ISSN 2651- 1479 (online). (King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand.) Online: https://doi.org/10.61508/refl.v31i1.270836 

Ali Saeed, A. ‘Book Review: The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science’. The Modernist Review. Issue 52. 10th June 2024. (British Association for Modernist Studies). Available online: https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/06/10/book-review-the-intelligent-unconscious-in-modernist-literature-and-science/

Ali Saeed, A. ‘Review of Stephen E. Lucas The Art of Public Speaking (13th edition) 2019’. New Academia: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory. Vol. XIII, issue ii, (April 2024) pp.1-8. ISSN 2347-2073 (online) (Barloni Books, India) Online: https://interactionsforum.com/images/pdfs/newacademia/V13/i2/Alan.pdf 

Ali Saeed, A. and Barfield, S., ‘Review: Women’s Voices from Kurdistan:  A Selection of Kurdish Poetry’. Sugar House Review. Issue 28. Summer 2024. pp. 97-100.  ISSN: 1948-9374 (print). (Utah, USA). Review also available online https://sugarhousereviews.blogspot.com/2024/07/womens-voices-from-kurdistan-selection.html

Barfield, S. and Saeed, A. A. (2025) “Book review: Battershill. C. and Ross. S. (2022) Using digital humanities in the classroom: a practical introduction for teachers, lecturers, and students. 2nd edn. London: Bloomsbury Academic”, Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (34). DOI: https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi34.1468. Online: https://journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe/article/view/1468

Saeed, Alan Ali (2025) "A Book Review of Alice Kelly, Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xi + 297pp," Journal of Arts and Social Sciences: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 12. Online: https://jass.squ.edu.om/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1410&context=journal 

Peer Review Report

Saeed AA. Peer Review Report For: Fundamental operations of the political in Beckett’s Molloy [version 1; peer review: 1 approved]. Open Res Europe 2025, 5:141 (https://doi.org/10.21956/openreseurope.21554.r55081)

Saeed AA. Peer Review Report For: “Perché i xe bestie?!” Politics, race and exclusion in Vladan Desnica’s The Winter Summer Vacation [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]. Open Res Europe 2025, 5:135 (https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-135/v1#referee-response-55826)

Journalism and Miscellaneous

Barfield, Steven and Saeed, Alan Ali ' "Why must it always be tomato soup?" How a line by Katherine Mansfield launched a literary competition'. Katherine Mansfield Society Newsletter, Issue 41, April 2022, pp. 6-8. (Katherine Mansfield Society) Available online by subscription https://katherinemansfieldsociety.org/publications/newsletter/.

Media

Saeed, A. A. (2021) The Theme of Innocence in Lord of the Flies. YouTube. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nCuh8W_5xc&ab_channel=AlanSaeed

My Ph.D. Thesis

Saeed, Alan A., 2015. 'Liberties and licences': gender, stream of consciousness and the philosophy of Henri Bergson and William James in selected female modernist fiction 1914-1929. Ph.D. Brunel University London.