LINDITA TAHIRI 1963

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LINDITA TAHIRI

PERSONAL DATA:

Name and surname: Lindita TAHIRI
Date of birth: March, 16, 1963
Place of birth: Shkup
Marital status: Married, two children
Tel: +377 44 344 161
 

EDUCATION:

1986-1987 University of Chicago, USA, Graduate program in Linguistics
1984-1986 University of Prishtina, M.A. in Linguistics
1985 University of East Anglia, England, M.A. program (one semester)
1979-1983 University of Prishtina, Kosova, B.A.Degree in English and American Language and Literature
1986 University of Prishtina, M.A. Degree in Stylistics
2006 University of Prishtina, PhD in Stylistics
 

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

November 2003- Kosovo Tempus Office Coordinator
April 2002 – Nov. Higher Education Program Coordinator in Kosova Education Center
2000- Professor of English at the UP, Faculty of Philology
1999 – 2002 Higher Education Program Coordinator in the Kosova Foundation for Open Society
1998- 1999 Professor of English at the Polytechnic University, Tirana
1988-1989 Research Assistant at the UCSD in USA, in the project “Albanian – English Dictionary”
1987- 1994 Professor of English at UP, Department of English
1984- 1987 Professor of English at the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Sciences
1983- 1984 Journalist for the daily Albanian newspaper in Kosova “Rilindja”

PUBLICATIONS:

2000 Collection of poetry in English
1983- 1990 Two collections of poetry

Translations of English and American literature in Albanian, including writers such as Conrad, Woolf, Hemingway, Golding, Dickinson, etc. Studies in Linguistic Criticism

MEMBERSHIP:

PEN Center of Kosova since 2004

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