Reflections/ Research on Teaching Cultural Studies and Literature

1. Short essays on teaching literature and cultural studies
2. Notices about publications by Omanis and/ or about Dhofar
3. Announcements about my research connected to teaching

Short essays on teaching literature and cultural studies in Dhofar:

Selected Fiction (Novels and Short Stories) – Arabian Peninsula

Using Creative Writing Prompts in Foreign Language Learning

Teaching: Reflections on Culture Shocks

Antigone and Ismene – Making Difficult Choices

Selected Fiction (Novels and Short Stories) – Arabian Peninsula

Teaching Metaphors: Conducting a Jazz Symphony

Using Cultural Understandings to Improve Teaching, part 1

Using Cultural Understandings to Improve Teaching, part 2

Using Cultural Understandings to Improve Teaching, part 3

Using Cultural Understandings to Improve Teaching, part 4

Teaching: Reflective Teaching and Motivation

Culture Lessons From Big Bang Theory

Teaching Literature and Staying au courant – The Man from Nowhere and the Ancient Greeks

A beautiful poem for the beginning of Ramadan

Literature and Ethnography

‘Little c’ Culture: Flooded Roads and Cheese Triangles

Relationship Cartoons – Worthy of Study

Suggestions for Literature Teachers in the Middle East

Teaching Middle Eastern and Western Literature in Tandem

Notices about publications by Omanis and/ or about southern Arabia

A new book has been published by Omani author, Huda Hamed: I Saw Her in my Dreams.

New Publication on the Archaeology of Dhofar

New Research Pertaining to Dhofar

An excellent article – “Women in Omani Arts: From Traditional Folk Tales to Contemporary Art” by Nada Al-Ajmi

Anne Meneley, research on Yemen

Two articles by D. T. Potts about farming implements and food in the historical record of Arabia

New book about Al Baleed

Copies of Jokha Al Harthi’s prize winning book on display in Switzerland!

Congratulations to Jokha al-Harthi (author) and Marilyn Booth (translator) for winning the 2019 Man Booker International for ‘Celestial Bodies’

Writers in Oman

New book on Dhofar forthcoming from Dr. Andrew Spalton and Dr. Hadi al Hikmani: “Dhofar: From Monsoon Mountains to Sand Seas”

Announcements

Using Creative Writing Prompts in Foreign Language Learning

Reflections on Ethnographic Research: Making Adjustments for Positive Multi-Cultural Exchanges/ Events

I am honored that I was asked to speak about “Creating Effective Research Projects with Students” at the University of Technology and Applied Science-Salalah

Conference presentation: Bringing Language Teaching into Literature Classrooms

I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference

I am pleased to announce that my chapter “Teaching Paired Middle Eastern and Western Literary Texts” has been published

I am happy to announce that my article, “Teaching Literature on the Arabian Peninsula,” has been published.

My article “An Ethnographic Discussion of Fairy Tales and Folktales from Southern Oman” will be published in Fabula

I am happy to announce that my article “مناقشة إثنوغرافية للحكايات الشعبية من جنوب عمان” [An Ethnographic Discussion of Folk Tales from Southern Oman] has been published in the journal Al Sha’ar (Alaan Publishers, Amman).

I was honored to be asked to speak about “Poetry and the Nobel Tradition”

I am happy to announce that my chapter “Teaching Paired Arabian and Western Literary Texts” will be published in the forthcoming book: Advancing English Language Education.

My article “An Ethnographic Discussion of Fairy Tales and Folktales from Southern Oman” will be published in Fabula