Fella Benabed, PhD
Fella Benabed is a professor of global Anglophone literature at the English department of Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University in Algeria. In her research, she is interested in the postcolonial, narrative, ecological, and medical approaches to literature. She is a US Department of State alumna: she took part in the Study of the United States Institute on Contemporary American Literature, University of Louisville, Kentucky (2011), and she was a Fulbright senior visiting scholar at Columbia University in the city of New York (2021) where she worked on “Nervous Conditions in African Literature.” She led a research project entitled “Literature and Medicine: Nurturing Clinical Empathy and Holistic Care” and authored a book entitled Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (De Gruyter, 2024). The book, prefaced by Prof. Paul Crawford, is the fourth volume in the series Medical & Health Humanities: Aesthetics, Analyses, Approaches, edited by Mita Banerjee, Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Anita Wohlmann.
In parallel to her teaching and research in literary studies, and as a teacher of English, Fella Benabed is interested in continuous professional development. She obtained DELTA (Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Cambridge University in the UK and UTICEF Master’s degree (Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Teaching and Training) from Strasbourg University in France. She has taken part in educational and research programs, projects, conferences, and publications on literature, ELT, and educational technologies in 18 countries. She is also a strong advocate of internationalization at home through virtual exchange, participating in Erasmus+ projects in raising students’ awareness about Sustainable Development Goals, mainly on Good Health and Well-being (SDG 3) and Quality Education (SDG 4). She strongly believes, in the words of Federico Mayor, that such an approach to education is “a Necessary Utopia.”