Yacoub, Mohamed

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biography

  • Dr. Mohamed Yacoub received his PhD in Applied Linguistics and Composition from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and his MA in TESOL from Missouri State University (MSU). He has taught in a variety of educational contexts in the United States and abroad, including Missouri State University (Missouri), Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania), Liaoning Normal University–Missouri State University (Dalian, China), King Faisal Academy (Saudi Arabia), as well as several institutions in Egypt.
    At Florida International University, Dr. Yacoub teaches a range of courses in the English Department, including:

    ENC 3311: Advanced Writing and Research
    ENC 3213: Professional and Technical Writing
    ENC 3354: Writing as Social Action
    ENC 3371: Rhetorical Theory and Practice
    ENC 4331: Community Writing


    Dr. Yacoub was a Fulbright Scholar during the 2012–2013 academic year. His research has been published in a number of peer-reviewed academic journals, and he has received multiple honors and distinctions for his teaching and scholarly work.

research interests

  • Mohamed Yacoub is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Writing and Rhetoric Program in the English Department. His research interests include the narratives and identities of multilingual students in undergraduate composition courses, writing program structures, the experiences of multilingual Muslim students, ESL students’ learning challenges, and morphological and phonological variation in loanwords.
    Dr. Yacoub has published in a range of peer-reviewed and professional journals, including Journal of Language, Identity & Education, Studies in Contrastive Grammar, International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, The Qualitative Report, PLOS One, Millennium Journal of English Literature, Linguistics and Translation, and Modern English Teacher.

selected scholarly works & creative activities

full name

  • Mohamed Yacoub

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