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Prof. Wafa Alkhadra is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the American University of Madaba, within the Faculty of Languages and Communication. She earned her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Jordan in 2002, M.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Jordan in 1995, and B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Jordan. Her career includes serving as Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Communication at the American University of Madaba, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters and Acting Dean at Amman Al-Ahliyya University, and Chairperson at Amman Al-Ahliyya University from 2004 to 2008. She has also been listed as Dean of the Deanship of Student Affairs at the American University of Madaba.

Prof. Alkhadra's research specializations include literature, cultural studies, women's studies, gender disparity in education, violence against women, and pragmatic linguistics in Arabic. Notable publications are 'Integrated Model for the Factors Determining the Academic's Remote Working Productivity and Engagement: Empirical Evidence from Jordanian Higher Education Institutions' (SAGE Open, 2023, with H. Al-Dmour, R. Al-Dmour, A. Alalwan), 'Emile Habiby and the Reinvention of the Palestinian Novel: The Pessoptimist in a Post-Realist Context' (Hispanic Luxembourgish Portuguese Studies, 2023, with C. Koulouri), 'Gender Disparity in School Textbooks in Jordan: The Case of Arabic and Social Education in Grades 4, 5 and 6' (Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, 2022, with Y. Shahzadeh, A. Al Kabarity), 'The Pragmatic Functions of wa in Jordanian Arabic: A Corpus-based Study' (2023, with J. Hamdan et al.), 'Barefoot nisswiyya in practice and theory: the case of grassroots feminists in Jordan' (2023), and 'The Representation of the Algerian Hirak Protest Movement in Jordanian Online Newspapers' (Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021). She won the Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Paper in 2023 for work in the International Journal of Ethics and Systems and in 2024. Her contributions advance feminist thought, gender studies, and textbook analysis in Jordan.