Dr. Fawziah Alharbi is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Faculty of Language Studies at Dammam and Ahsa branch at Arab Open University. She specializes in British literature in the long Nineteenth Century. Dr. Alharbi received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021. Her dissertation, entitled “The Demimonde as a Female Dandy: Masks, Masquerade, and the Making of the Dandy’s Personae in Nineteenth Century British Culture” was awarded Preston English Dissertation Fellowship, a prestigious award that recognizes distinguished works in the field of English Studies. Her work focuses on representations of controversial historical figures in Victorian Britain, particularly the dandy and the demimonde, across different genres. Dr. Alharbi also completed a course on Digital Humanities offered by Harvard University. Her research, “Rape in the Courtesan’s Autobiography: A Non-Adjudicative Criticism of Sexual Violence of Marginal Women in the Nineteenth-Century,” received recognition at the British Association for Victorian Studies 2023 at the University of Surrey. Dr. Alharbi's research interests include cultural studies, gender studies, drama, performance studies, digital humanities, Orientalism, and female-authored life-writings.
Currently teaching:
A230B: Reading and Studying Literature (II)
AA100B: The Arts Past and Present (II)
AA100A: The Arts Past and Present (I)
EL121N: Literary Appreciation and Critique
EL117: Academic Writing
Taught courses:
ENGL 3000: Shakespeare for Non-Majors, University of Colorado Boulder
Assistant Professor, Arab Open University 2023-Present.
Instructor of Record, University of Colorado Boulder 2018.
Galil, S. A., W. Mustafa, and Fawziah Alharbi. “Memory and Diasporic Spaces: The Imaginaire in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World (1986)”. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, Dec. 2025, doi:10.33806/ijaes988.
Alharbi, Fawziah. "Rape in the Courtesan’s Autobiography: A Non-Adjudicative Criticism of Sexual Violence of Marginal Women in the Nineteenth-Century." The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS). University of Surrey, 2023.
Alharbi, Fawziah. The Demimonde as a Female Dandy: Masks, Masquerade, and the Making of the Dandy’s Personae in Nineteenth-Century British Culture, 2021. University of Colorado Boulder. Prospectus (online).