B.A. University of Toronto; A.M., Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Special interests in nationalism and literature; Israeli, Palestinian, and Spanish. Began teaching at Carleton in 1999.

B.A. Tel Aviv University; A.M. & Ph.D Harvard University. Special interests: medieval Arabic literature (adab), music in the medieval Arab world, contemporary Arab music.

Office Hours:  Tuesday 2:00-3:00, Wednesday 12:00-1:00; and by appointment

B.A. Tel Aviv University; M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Special interests include Israeli and Middle East literature and film; the history of the cultural relations of France and the Middle East; Levant Literature.

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 1:45-3:15, Friday 11:00-12:00; and by appointment.

B.A. Jordan University of Science and Technology; M.A. Yarmouk University; M.A. University of Kansas; Ph.D. Candidate: University of Kansas. Special interests: second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, acoustics, socio-phonetics, gender ideology, and linguistic anthropology.