Contributors
- Contributors
Maher Bahloul is an associate professor at the American University of Sharjah. His areas of research and teaching include theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, and teaching and learning through the arts. He is the author of Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb (Routledge, 2008) and numerous articles on Arabic language and linguistics.
John Eisele is an associate professor at the College of William and Mary. His research has focused on a wide variety of topics dealing with Arabic language, linguistics, and culture, including tense and aspect, word play, sound symbolism, and the Hollywood “Eastern” genre. From 1999 to 2007 he was the executive director of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic and is a past recipient of Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. He is currently working with Driss Cherkaoui to produce a new curriculum and textbook series for Arabic, both formal and dialectal, with support from the Department of Education.
Shehdeh Fareh is professor of linguistics at the University of Sharjah, where he is currently the director of the Language Institute. He has published many articles, translated several books into Arabic and English, and is the principal author of a series of English foreign-language books. His research interests include contrastive discourse analysis, teaching English as a foreign language, and translation.
Peter Glanville is an assistant professor of Arabic at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also director of the Arabic Flagship Program. He holds a PhD in Arabic Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MS in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests center on Arabic language pedagogy and on Arabic derivational morphology. He is the author of The Lexical Semantics of the Arabic Verb (Oxford University Press, 2018), which examines the relationship between linguistic form and meaning as it pertains to the verb patterns of Arabic.
Uri Horesh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. His research focuses on Levantine dialects of Arabic (mostly Palestinian and Jordanian) as well as Modern Hebrew from a variationist sociolinguistic perspective. He has published, inter alia, in Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics Compass, Journal of Jewish Languages, Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik, and The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics.
Sawad Hussain holds an MA in Modern Arabic Literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies. She was co-revising editor of the Arabic–English side of the 2014 Oxford Arabic Dictionary. She regularly translates and critiques Arabic literature. Her latest translation is of a Jordanian speculative-fiction novel by Fadi Zaghmout, and she is currently translating a Kuwaiti historical-fiction novel by Saud al-Sanousi, to appear in 2019.
Yahya Kharrat is an assistant professor of Arabic at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, and holds a PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Kansas. His areas of interest include Arabic dialects, applied linguistics, and pedagogy of Arabic as a second language.
Thomas A. Leddy-Cecere is a faculty member in sociolinguistics at Bennington College. His research interests comprise language variation and change in both synchronic and diachronic applications, and his current projects include the study of contact-induced grammatical change in the history of Arabic and the sociolinguistic analysis of dialect accommodation phenomena among transnational Arabic-speaking populations.
Janelle Moser is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include vocabulary teaching and learning, materials evaluation and design, the corpus-based approach to foreign language teaching and learning, and language-program administration. Her forthcoming dissertation focuses on Arabic as a foreign language commercial materials evaluation and design from a variety of popular second-language acquisition theories and perspectives.
Paul A. Sundberg is director of the Gulf Arabic Program in Al Buraimi, Sultanate of Oman. He holds an MS in Linguistics from Georgetown University, an MA in Arabic Studies from the American University in Cairo, and a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was born in Saudi Arabia and began Arabic study in first grade in a (Saudi) Aramco school. He...
