Her areas of concentration are archetypal criticism, mythology, modernism, contemporary Arabic literature, post-colonial criticism, and human rights issues. Her PhD in Comparative Literature is from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Dr. Brandabur has taught at Birzeit University in Occupied Palestine; Al-Ba’ath University in Syria (Fulbright); Bilkent University and METU Universities in Ankara; Bahrain University; Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan. She has published articles on Beckett, Joyce, Naquib Mahfouz, Graham Greene, Jean Genet, T.E. Lawrence, and Yaşar Kemal.