Curriculum Vitae Susanne Ramadan Shunnaq Associate Professor Department of English Language and Literature/ Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan English Department, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman [email protected] & [email protected] Mobile: ++968-92082951 Education 1995-2000 1990-1993 1987-1990 1981-1987 1979-1981 1975-1979 Fulbright Scholar, Graduate program at The Pennsylvania State University in modern and contemporary American literature. Dissertation entitled "The Transitional Epic Hero in American Literature: Alger, Fitzgerald, and the Philosophy of Success." MA program in English language and literature, minor in English phonetics, phonology, and syntax. Thesis entitled “Survival Disavowal: A Pattern Study of Fitzgerald’s Major Protagonists.” BA with honors, Yarmouk University. Major in English language and literature, minor in Education. Secondary school, Jordan Secondary school in Vienna, Austria. Elementary school in Vienna, Austria. Employment 2013Sultan Qaboos University, English Department, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Muscat, Oman. 2011- now Member in the Committee for the Jordanian National Exam in the Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education 2012 Erasmus Mundus Co-Investigator (Co-I) for JOSYLEEM scholarship program 2010-2012 Member in the Higher Education Committee in the Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education 2010-2012 Director of the Language Center & Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) Program at Yarmouk University 2010- now Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Yarmouk University 2000-2010 Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Yarmouk University 1999-2000 Fellowship Recipient at The Pennsylvanian State University 1997-2000 Teaching assistant at The Pennsylvania State University/ English Department. Courses include: Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Writing, Literature. 1 1998-1999 1993-1995 1990-1992 Research assistant for Dr. Sandra Whipple Spanier/ Pennsylvania State University. Teaching and Research Assistant at Yarmouk University/ Department of English. Grader and proctor at Yarmouk University/ Department of English. Memberships 2013- now Member in the Advisory Board of the Journal entitled Kiraat issued by the Faculty of Arts, University Mascara/ Algiers 2011- now Member in the Middle Eastern Studies Association 2011 Member in the Fulbright pre-doctoral selection committee for Fulbright nominees in Jordan 1994- now Member in the Jordanian Translators’ Association (J.T.A.). Departmental Activities at Sultan Qaboos University 2013Member in the Education English Accreditation Liaison Committee 2013Member in the Quality and Accreditation Committee Departmental Activities at Yarmouk University 2012-2013 Member in the Departmental undergraduate and graduate study plan committee 2012-2013 Member in the Language Center Council 2011-2012 Member in the Committee for rehabilitation of University Housing 2011-2012 Member in the Committee for rehabilitation of Specialized Libraries 2010-2012 Member in the Recruitment and Scholarship Committee 2009-2010 Graduate Studies Committee Member 2009-2010 Conference Coordinator for the 19th International Conference of English language, literature, and translation at Yarmouk University 2008-2009 Member in the Departmental Students Issues Committee 2007-2009 Departmental Coordinator for E 220 (Survey of British Literature) & E221 (Survey of American Literature) 2007-2009 Departmental B.A. Study Plan Committee Member 2007 Member in the Faculty Committee for Quality Assurance 2006-2007 Conference Committee Member for the 18th International Conference on English language, literature, and translation at Yarmouk University 2006-2007 Member in the Student Issues Committee 2006-2007 Assigned M.A. Student Advisor 2006 Member in the Aptitude Exam (ELT) Committee 2005-2006 Representative of English Department in the Council of the Faculty of Arts 2005 Member Aptitude Exam (ELT) Committee 2004-2005 Conference Committee Member for the 17th International Conference on English language, literature, and translation at Yarmouk University 2004-2005 Member in the Socio-Cultural Committee 2004-2005 Member in the B.A. Study Plan Committee 2002-2003 Graduate Studies Committee Member 2001-2002 Conference Committee Member for the 16th International Conference on English 2 2001-2002 2000-2001 1993-1994 language, literature, and translation at Yarmouk University Member in the Library Committee Graduate Studies Committee Member Conference Committee Member for the 11th International Conference on English language, literature, and translation at Yarmouk University Faculty Committees at Yarmouk University 2005-2006 Member in the Library Committee in the Faculty of Arts Council. 2005-2006 Member in the Advisory and Orientation Committee in the Faculty of Arts Council. 2005-2006 Member in the Inquisition and Disciplinary Committee in the Faculty of Arts Council. 2005-2006 Member in the Student Issues Committee in the Faculty of Arts Council. Research Published Research 1) Mufeed Al-Abdullah and Susanne Ramadan. (October 2012). “Shakespeare’s Language Strategies in Hamlet.” Journal of Literature and Art Studies 2, 10. 2) Shunnaq, Mohammed, Susanne Ramadan. (2012). Camel-Trekking in Jordan: Between Oriental Perception and Authentic Tourist Expectation. Camels in Asia and North Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on their Past and Present Significance by Knoll, E. and P. Burger eds. Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences 177-185, 269. 3) Ramadan, Susanne. (2012). "Conflicting Careers? F. Scott Fitzgerald the Literary Artist and the Professional Writer. Damascus University Journal 28,1: 85-112. Damascus: Damascus University. 4) Ramadan, Susanne. (2011). "Transatlantic Influences: Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Kipling's Kim." Mu'tah Lil-Buhuth wad-Dirasat (Mu'tah Journal for Research and Studies) 26,1: 9-32. Karak: Mu'tah University. 5) Ramadan, Susanne, Mahmoud Al-Shra'ah. (2010). "Born Too Early or Too Late? James Sheridan Knowles and the Nineteenth Century Marketplace." Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts 7,1:11-29. Irbid: Yarmouk University. 6) Ramadan, Susanne. (March 2010). "The Little 'Extra' He Had: Fitzgerald's Craft in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Revue des Sciences Humaines 18:7-31. Biskra, Algeria: University of Mohamed Khider. 7) Ramadan, Susanne. (2009). "All that Glitters is not Gold: Trimalchio and the American Achievement-Oriented Society." Proceedings of the Spring and Fall Conferences of the 3 Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers. California, USA: MSI Press. 8) Ramadan, Susanne. "'Switzerland:' An Unpublished Poem of J. S. Knowles." Notes and Queries 56,3 (2009): 392-393. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 9) Ramadan, Susanne. (2007). "The Problem of Form in American Post-War Drama: Death of a Salesman Revisited." Cairo Studies in English (CSE): Essays in honour of Rashad Rushdy Vol.II: 293-315. Cairo: Cairo University. Supervision of Theses and Dissertations: 2013 Synthesizing Naturalism and Existentialism: A Study of Theodore Dreiser's Characters in Jennie Gerhardt. Lubna Farraj 2013 Rewriting the Self through Memory in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled. Assil Ghariri 2013 Nocturnal Creativity: The Insomnia Poems of John Keats and Robert Frost. Muath Al-Azzam 2012 Terrorism as an Anti-Thesis in Selected Contemporary American Novels. Amin Ata Zaki 2012 Female Solidarity Against Oppression in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place. Badr Aldeen Al-Zoubi 2011 The Development of Female Poetic Imagination: An Analytical Study of Three American Women Poets. Waleed Dweiri 2011 Problems Encountered in Translating the Inaugural Speeches of Three American Presidents: A Case Study. Zeinab Atoum 2011 The Return to the Mother Semiotics in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife. Omar Qaishawi 2011 Men in Search of Identity in Three Marlovean Plays. Tahani Smadi 2010 The Translatability of Culture-Specific Aspects in Al-Shaykh's Collection of Stories 'I Sweep the Sun off the Rooftops.' Haleemeh Bani Abdo 2010 Rudyard Kipling's Kim: A Biographical Study. Mohammed Tbaishat 2009 The Journey to the Middle East in the English Novel: A Study of Benjamin Disraeli's Tancred. Ali Salameh 2008 A Feminist Study of Selected Fiction by Nawal El-Saadawi and Ahdaf Soueif. Waed Athamneh Examiner for M.A. theses & Ph.D Disserations: 2013 "The Postmodern Female/Male Gothic in Stephen King's Misery and Joyce Carol Oates' The Tattooed Girl" Bashar Hariri. M.A. thesis 2013 "The Disintegration of Family in Jonathan Franzen's The Correction and Freedom" Fawzyya Kareem. M.A. thesis 2012 “A Study of Orphan Images in Three Novels by Charles Dickens” Nisreen Bani Hani. M.A thesis 2011 “The Impact of Hemingway on the Arabic Novel” Abdullah Ayyash. Ph.D. Dissertation 4 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2010 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2007 2007 2007 2005 2002 “Problems Encountered in Translating Figures of Speech in Advertisements” by Noor Abu-Zeid. M.A thesis “The Translation of Metaphors used in Reporting the Global Financial Crisis from English into Arabic” by Elham Hassan Ali. M.A thesis “Translation and Manipulation in Disney: Aladdin as a Case Study” by Mohammed Bataineh. M.A thesis “The Question of Identity in Selected Novels of Mark Twain” Lamees Omoush. M.A thesis “Social Impacts on American Detective Fiction: Race, Class, and Gender” Hanan Jeezawi. M.A thesis “The African-American’s Sexual Identity in Fiction: A Study of two Novels” Mais Mayyas. M.A thesis “The Concept of the ‘Other’ in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene” Amneh Al-Fayez. M.A thesis "The Question of Identity in Selected Novels by Chinua Achebe." Ali Asdi. M.A thesis. "The Representation of Memory in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Anil's Ghost." Asma Al-Heeh. M.A thesis "The Translation of Metonymy from Arabic into English with Reference to Tayyib Salih's Novel Season of Migration to the North." Ameen Odeh Bani Khalid. M.A thesis “Problems Encountered by UAE University Students in Translating English Animal Idioms." Adel Nimr. M.A thesis "Translatability of Style in Modern Arabic Literature: Season of Migration to the North as an Example." Fadia Huwwari. M.A thesis "The Strategy of Presenting Womanhood in Edith Wharton's Shorter Fiction. "Rasha Khashashneh. M.A thesis "Therapeutics of Vampirism in Selected Novels of Anne Rice." Enas Al-Otoum. M.A thesis "Historiographic Metafiction in Michael Ondaatje's Works of Fiction: The English Patient, Running in the Family, Coming Through Slaughter." Alaa Jumua. M.A thesis "The Negotiation of Identity in Anglo-Arab Women Fiction." Zein Al-Azzam "The Problem of Identity in Asian-American Drama: A Cultural Study." Muath Al-Azzam "A Study of the Use of Visual and Peripetetic Imagery in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney." Feisal Al-Rawashdeh "Women in Jane Austen: A Feminist Critique." Yara Salman "Violence and Identity in William Faulkner's Short Stories." Nisreen Abulhaija Courses Taught at Sultan Qaboos University: 5 Undergraduate Courses 2013 Introduction to Poetry and Drama Survey of American Literature I Survey of American Literature II Courses Taught at Yarmouk University Undergraduate Courses E 111: English Language Skills (University Requirement) E 105: English Language Skills (Faculty of Arts Requirement) E 104: Language Skills Through Literary Texts E 202: Writing (1): Writing on the paragraph level E 206: Writing (2): Writing on the essay level E 220: Survey of British Literature E 221: Survey of American Literature E 320: Writing (3): Writing themes about literature (critical and argumentative writing) E 321: Critical Theory E 331: The Novel and the Short Story E 343: Restoration and 18th Century British Poetry E 351: Beginnings of British Prose until Austin E 352: British Prose 1830-1930 E 353: Modern American Prose E 355: Poetry from the Beginnings until 1798 E 356: Poetry from Romanticism until present E 357: Shakespeare and the Renaissance E 358: British and American Drama E 363: American Fantasy Literature 1900-1940 E 459: Studies in Genre E 470: Studies in Poetry E 490: Single Author E 493: Special Topic in English Literature Graduate Courses E 611: Research Methodology E 613: Studies is the Novel E 614: Studies in Critical Theory E 616: Western Thought E 617: Studies in Pre-Romantic Poetry E 654: The British and American Novel E 666: English Literature for Graduate Students from the Linguistic Track Activities and Interests 2012 Presented a paper entitled "The Environment and its Effect on Arabic as a Foreign Language Acquisition at Yarmouk University in Irbid City” at MESA (Middle 6 Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting) in Denver, Colorado, USA 2012. 2012 Attended the Annual University of Mississippi Gathering in Oxford, Mississippi,USA. 2011 Attended the MESA meeting in Washington D.C. 1-5 Dec. 2011. 2011 Attended a professional development workshop on Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language organized by CET Academic Programs 2011 Participated in an ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Assessment Workshop organized by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages English Language Supervisor at Yarmouk University Model School for Preschool, 2nd grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, and 8th grade males and females 2007-2008 2008 Translation & Commentary for Yarmouk University Documentary Project #2 2007 Translation & Commentary for Yarmouk University Documentary Project #1 2000-2009 TOEFL Instructor at The Queen Rania Center, Yarmouk University 1993-1995 TOEFL Instructor at Community Service Center, Yarmouk University 1993 Participated in ESP workshop (English for Special Purposes) at Jordan University of Science and Technology on classroom research, material evaluation, developing tests, and project sustainability. 1992 Lectured in a number of Jordanian schools on English language problems faced by students 1992-1995 Voluntary coordinator and member of remedial program in Department of English at Yarmouk University. Program included courses in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Hebrew, and TOEFL. Taught English and German Academic Honors and Awards 1999-2000 Fellowship from English Department at The Pennsylvania State University. 1995-1997 Recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for Ph.D program in American Literature. 1990 Honored by president of Yarmouk University for ranking first among 222 BA graduates. 1988-1990 Recipient of annual Yarmouk University awards for distinguished students. Special Skills Languages: 7 German: English: Arabic: Spanish: French: mother tongue, fluent in written and spoken German native-like native-like moderate knowledge school French only References 1. Professor Adrian Roscoe, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. Cell-phone#: 95878130. 2. Professor Sultan T. Abu-Orabi Aladwan, Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities (AARU), President of the Jordanian Chemical Society, Secretary General of the Arab Union of Chemists. Office: (962 6) 5062048, Mobile: (962) 795600448, Fax: (962 6) 5062051. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. 3. Professor Mohammed Sawaie, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, 232 Cabell Hall, P.O. Box 400781, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4781 536. E-mail: [email protected]. 4. Judy Gregson Schwab, Associate Vice Chancellor, Office of the Chancellor, 425 Administration Building, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Tel. 479.575.4149 or 479.530.3752 (mobile). E-mail: [email protected]. Personal - Nationality: - Social Status: Austrian married, 2 children Last updated October 29, 2013 8
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