Dr. Marwan Kadhim Mohammed is an Associate Professor of Contemporary English Literature and novels at the University of Anbar, Iraq. In 2017, he obtained his PhD in Literature from UPM University (Malaysia) under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Literature and Literary Theory, Literature and Literary Theory, Arts and Humanities, History
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Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Human existence in Kafka's The Metamorphosis Marwan Kadhim Mohammed Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2025 Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis poses a formidable challenge to many philosophical ideas concerning human existence. The novella has been widely studied through psychoanalytic, social, existential, and theological lenses. However, there remains a need to highlight how Nietzsche's philosophical conceptions of existence can offer a deeper, and perhaps underexplored, understanding of its protagonist's transformation. This study aims to investigate The Metamorphosis to question human existence through the interdependence between Kafka's novella and Nietzsche's philosophy of existence. The Nietzschean concepts of rejecting conventional values, individual will to power, and nihilism are adopted to examine Kafka’s protagonist’s transformation and experience as an insect. The study finds out that Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis presents a bleak, existential worldview, urging readers to reflect on the complexities of human existence. Adopting Nietzsche's philosophical perspective on existence as a method of analysis offers a new perspective for understanding these philosophical complexities. The study concludes that the interconnection between Kafka's novel and Nietzsche's concepts of human existence gives a new dimension to the protagonist’s character. Gregor's identity and status are challenged, and his human existence is threatened when he is transformed into a strange creature who has no right to exist.
Environmental crises and narrative consciousness in Maja Lunde's the History of Bees Marwan Kadhim Mohammed Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2024 Literature plays a crucial role in raising consciousness and promoting a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness between human nature and its surroundings. However, there is widespread debate in academic discourse about how contemporary narratives depict environmental crises using narrative consciousness. Therefore, the current study aims to explore the narrative consciousness of environmental crises in Lundy's novel The History of Bees through the lens of Cheryll Glotfelty's ecocritical conception, addressing the need for a deeper understanding of how literature depicts environmental issues and encourages an ethical engagement with nature. Drawing on Glotfelty's principles of heightened environmental consciousness, depiction of consequences, and ethical engagement, the study examines how Lund's novel embodies these concepts in its depiction of declining bee populations and their ecological importance. The study thus discusses how the novel raises consciousness of the interconnectedness between humans and nature, addressing the consequences of human actions on the environment, and calling for engagement and moral action to accept nature's beings. Through the narratives of three characters in different time periods, the essay highlights the interconnectedness between humans, bees, and the natural world, emphasizing the need for a more sustainable relationship with the environment. The article contributes to a deeper understanding of Lundy's novel's efforts to raise consciousness of profound environmental topics and enhance the discourse on ecocriticism and contemporary environmental literature.
Moderation of the Narrative Discourse and Historical Authenticity in William Faulkner'sABSALOM, ABSALOM! Marwan Kadhim Mohammed, Mohammed Deraa Farhan Dirasat Human and Social Sciences, 2023 Objectives: The study aims to introduce Faulkner's concept of moderation in narrative discourse and its relationship to historical authenticity, to determine how this concept is embodied in the structure and the language of the novel. The study also aims to show how Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! Reflects aspects of historical authenticity by employing the concept of moderation as a basis for balance in narrative discourse. 
 Methods: Fisher and Ravizza's theory of responding to moderate reasons was chosen as the theoretical framework for the study. The descriptive analytical method was used to analyze selected texts from Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom! to investigate how moderation and historical authenticity are embodied in the narrative discourse of that novel. The results obtained from the analysis were then compared with Fisher and Ravizza's theory to highlight the relationships between the concepts of moderation and historical authenticity and how each influences the other. 
 Results: The concept of moderation is evident in highlighting important aspects of historical authenticity. The narrative discourse relies on historical authenticity as as a crucial foundation for achieving a balance, effectively influencing the portrayal of the concept of moderation. Faulkner's narrative discourse is closely associated with historical authenticity. Balance is achieved in the novel by embodying the concepts of moderation and historical authenticity. 
 Conclusions: Faulkner reformulates the narrative discourse of the concept of moderation with historical authenticity that leads him to strengthen the spirit of tolerance as an essential component of the balance of that discourse.
The surprise as a communicative technique of deviation in Alice Walker's novel (The color purple) Dirasat Human and Social Sciences, 2020
Truth problematization and identity formation: A foucauldian reading of Martin Amis's money Marwan Kadhim Mohammed, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Hardev Kaur, Manimangai Mani 3l Language Linguistics Literature, 2016 Transgression in postmodern age marked a unique social and cultural aspect in re-forming the identity of the postmodern man. Martin Amis mirrors the identities of his characters through their transgression of the social norms, specifically, the established norms of truth of masculinity. However, this idea of truth transgression in Amis's novel Money has not been fully taken into account and there has been little discussion about it in terms of identity formation. Thus, the aim of this paper is to investigate the way in which transgression of truth affects the idea of identity formation in Amis's novel Money. Drawing on Michel Foucault's technique of problematisation, the present paper investigates the notion of transgressing the historical truth of masculinity which becomes a significant idea that the protagonist John Self manipulates to actualise himself and to pick up his own identity. The paper reveals a conclusion in which transgression of truth can be instrumental in realising the self and re-affirming subjectivity as the case is in John Self. Keywords: transgression; Foucault; problematisation; Amis; money DOI: http://doi.org/10.17576/3L-2016-2202-09
