Academic Profile

Outline Biography

Dr. Shokhan Rasool Ahmed earned her PhD degree in early modern English drama at the University of Leicester (2014), her MA degree in English Literature, Place, and Identity at the University of Exeter (2009), and her BA degree in English language and literature at the University of Sulaimani (2006). She was promoted to Assistant Professor by the University of Sulaimani in May of 2021. Her teaching and main research interests include early modern literature (especially drama), Shakespeare studies, late 18th-century novel, place, space, and Identity. She published three books on supernatural entities on stage, the first entitled Magic and Gender in Early Modern England, the second entitled The Visual Spectacle of Witchcraft in Jacobean Plays: Blackfriars Theatre, and a more recent work,The Staging of Witchcraft and a "Spectacle of Strangeness": Witchcraft at Court and the Globe. She also published 7  articles on witchcraft plays in the International Journal of Literature and Arts, the International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature, and the International Journal of Development Research. She is now teaching English drama in the English Department of the University of Sulaimani, and also working on two other papers.

 Research Interests

Dr. Shokhan's research interests includes the following fields;

1. early modern literature (especially drama)

2. Shakespeare studies

3. Jacobean Theater

4. late 18th-century novel

5. Place and Identity in English Literature

6. Modern and postmodern Drama

7. Literary Theory

8. African American Literature