​Dr Mohammed Hamdan has a PhD in comparative transatlantic literature from the University of Lancaster, UK and currently works as an associate professor of Anglo-American literary studies at the Department of English Language and Literature, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. His main research interests include nineteenth-century material culture, gender studies, literary translation and comparative studies on exile, landscape and national identity in modern Palestinian fiction. His articles on various subjects of literary criticism appear in Interactive Learning Environments, English Academy Review, Babel: International Journal of Translation, Journal of Gender Studies, Comparative American Studies, English Studies, National Identities and many others.