Professor Dr. Farid Halimi

Graduate of the Higher Normal School (ENS), Class of 2004/2005.

Academic Background

He pursued his postgraduate studies at the University of Frères Mentouri – Constantine, where he obtained a Magister degree in 2010 and a PhD in Modern Literature in 2016. He submitted his Habilitation at the Emir Abdelkader University of Islamic Sciences – Constantine in 2018. He was promoted to Full Professor (Professor of Higher Education) on February 29, 2024.

Research Interests

·        Comparative Studies and Cultural Studies

·        Modern and Contemporary Literature

·        Modern and Contemporary Criticism

·        Discourse Analysis

·        Narratology

·        Semiotics

Professional Career

·        Assistant Professor (Grade B) – November 2011

·        Assistant Professor (Grade A) – 2012

·        Associate Professor (Grade B) – 2016

·        Associate Professor (Grade A) – June 25, 2018

·        Full Professor – February 29, 2024

Selected Publications

·        Manifestations of Postcolonialism in Contemporary Arab Digital Discourse (Podcast as a Model), 2025.

·        The Interaction between the Cultural and the Aesthetic in Palestinian Cause Poetry, 2025.

·        Cultural Reading Strategy in Mohamed Al-Shahat’s Works, 2025.

·        Historical Drama and the Systemic Shift from Textuality to Theatricality, 2023.

·        The Title as a Sign and Its Reading Mechanisms: A Semiotic Approach, 2023.

·        Opening Mechanisms in the New Novelistic Text, 2022.

·        Strategies of Literary Text Construction and Reading Mechanisms, 2022.

·        Semiotics of the Paratext in the Novel 'Blood of the Gazelle', 2016.

Teaching

·        Modern and Contemporary Criticism

·        Contemporary Critical Schools

·        Literary Theory

·        Post-Discourse Studies

·        Comparative Literature

·        Semiotics

Languages

·        English

·        French