Alice Craven was the plenary speaker at the 6th International Conference for New Directions in the Humanities in Istanbul.  She delivered a paper on Beni Snassen and Abd Al Malik.

Alice Craven is Associate professor in English and Comparative Literature and is presently serving as Chair of that department. She joined the AUP faculty in 1994 after having received her Ph.D. degree at New York University. While her graduate work concentrated on notions of staging and adaptation theory in Baroque tragedy, much of her recent research has been focussed on parallel issues in cinema. She has also collaborated extensively in the development of interdisciplinary pedagogy and curricular reform in the humanities at the university. She explores this area through her work as FirstBridge coordinator, and as co-coordinator and professor of the senior capstone course, Viewing and Reviewing Islam. She participated in creating an outgrowth of the FirstBridge program, FrenchBridge, an innovative approach to research in language learning throughout the university curriculum. She is currently incorporating all of these into a book project on the “act of reading” at risk and new directions in the humanities.

Alice Craven teaches courses within the EN program, notably an interdisciplinary course on critical analysis, and Comparative Literature courses on Shakespeare in Context, Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism with a focus on genre theory. Within the FirstBridge program she has offered courses on detective fiction as a genre of the masses as well as a course on the evolution of reading acts, ReadingDotCom. In the summer program she offers a Comparative Literature course on the “Uncanny Detective” in the Parisian context. She has regularly offered courses on film aesthetics at the Institut de Sciences Politiques.

"In the Heat of the Night: Teaching the American Nightmare to the World" in the Tamkang Review, Vol.XXXV, 3-4, Spring 2005, (Taipei, Taiwan: Tamkang University), 116-153.

"Teaching Beyond the Pale: Interdisciplinary Improvisations" in Disparities Among Transcultural Values: Refutation, Resignation and Reception, Vol. XIII, 2, ed. Robert N. St. Clair, 2004, 29-39.

"Post-Colonial Trenches: A Military Speculation on Decolonising the EFL Curriculum" in AAICU Journal, Teaching English, Teaching in English, edited by Rodney Coules and Filitsa Sofianou Mullen, Issue 2, April 2003 (American College of Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Greece).

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