About

George Sadaka

Associate Professor of English Literature

George Sadaka is an associate professor of English literature. He also served as the associate chair of the previous Department of English. He started his teaching career at LAU as an instructor in 2003, as a lecturer in 2013, and as an assistant professor in 2019. He taught creative writing, English literature and cultural studies. He was assigned coordinator of cultural studies, ethics and English literature between 2006 and 2019.

Dr. Sadaka earned his PhD in English from the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom in 2012, under the supervision of Dr. Lindsey Moore and the secondary supervision of Dr. Arthur Bradley. Dr. Robert Spencer, at the University of Manchester, examined the thesis and chaired the viva voce (defense). The title of the PhD thesis is “The Store as a Contra-Colonial Trope of Resistance and Decolonisation in a Selection of Twentieth-Century Colonial Novels”. The thesis treats a reconciliation of colonial and postcolonial paradigms through recurrent images/colonial spaces located in 20th-century colonial novels: Heart of Darkness (1899-1902) by Joseph Conrad, Mister Johnson (1939) by Joyce Cary, The Heart of the Matter (1948) by Graham Green, The Sheltering Sky (1949) by Paul Bowles, The Grass in Singing (1950) by Doris Lessing, and Justine (1957) by Lawrence Durell. The methodology is a melange of Postcolonial, Marxist and Deconstructionist literary theory.