Amira Agameya

Organizations: Universities

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Linguistics

Amira Agameya

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


The American University in Cairo

English Language Institute

AUC Avenue, New Cairo

Cairo

Egypt

+2-02-2615-1918

aagameya@aucegypt.edu

http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/Profiles/Pages/AmiraAgameya.aspx

Education


Ph.D. Linguistics (Syntax), Cairo University, 1988.

M.A. Linguistics/TEFL, University College of North Wales, Bangor, UK, 1981.

Graduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics, Cairo University, 1978.

B.A. English, English Department, Cairo University, 1976.

Has taken a number of courses.

 

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Syntax (Generative Grammar)

WORK HISTORY


September 2009 – Present: ELI Director and Chair of the TEFL Program, AUC.

December 2003 – August 2006: Professor of Linguistics, English Department, Cairo University.

Chair of Committee and consultant for several projects within the Ministry of Education (Egypt) including curriculum review and development.

 

Honorary office and memberships


Is a member of several associations including: the Linguistic Society of America; EgypTesol; and the International Pragmatic Association (IPrA).

 

Productions and Works


Has a number of publications to her name, including:Agameya, A. 2009. The Expression of Discourse Stance in Formal Spoken English: The Uses and Functions of It … that Sentences. Paper submitted to the Journal of Pragmatics;

Agameya, A. 2008. The Subject. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL). Brill Academic Publishers; Agameya, A. 2007.

The Expression of Discourse Stance in Formal Spoken English: The Uses and Functions of It … that Sentences. Paper presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Gothenburg, Sweden.

Has given several lectures at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden, in November 2009.

AWARDS


Recieved a number of grants and fellowships, such as: the Faculty Research Grant from AUC; Summer Enrichment Grant from the Fulbright Commission in Cairo; and Grant-in-Aid from The British Council.