EDUCATION

PhD, Lit and Crit (Digital Humanities) , 2012

Indiana University of PA, U.S.A GPA (4)

MA, Literature and Criticism, 2003

Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan (Excellent Ranking)

BA, English Language and Literature, 1997

Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan (Excellent Ranking)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant professor of English, October 2013 Present

Philadelphia University, Jordan

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, September 2019 June 2020

University of Nebraska / Lincoln (Educational Technology)

Visiting Scholar, October 2017-March 2018

Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH), University of Cologne, Germany

English Language Coordinator, March 2013 August 2015.

US Embassy - Amman

Adjunct faculty, September 2011 June 2012

Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA

- taught communication skills and writing courses.

Test Scorer, March May 2012 DRC Robinson Township, PA

-Scored PSSA tests.

Staff Writer, Feb 2010 - May 2010 The Penn, Indiana, PA.

-wrote weekly articles on campus events.

Teaching and Research Assistant, 2003-2008

The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan

PUBLICATIONS PRESENTATIONS

• "The Computational Fallacy: A New Model for Understanding the Role of Computers in Humanities and Education". Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2021.
• DAILY VERBS: TEACHING ENGLISH VERB TENSES THROUGH A SIMPLE VIDEO

GAME”. European Journal of Foreign Language Teaching. Vol. 5, Issue 5 (2021) https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejfl/article/view/3914

• No Season of Migration to the West: Theorizing the Non-Western in the Writings of Larry

Neal” Journal of African American Studies (June 2017)

• Enter the Digital: Emergent Materiality and the Digitization of Literary Texts” Digital Studies 2017.
• I speak Differently: Integrating the Idea of ‘Co-culture’ Into the EFL Classroom in Jordan”. ALC 2013 conference, Amman, Jordan.
• Women in Action: Gender and Spectacle in the Construction of the Action Heroine in Contemporary Cinema”, a poster presentation, IUP Symposium on Gender, April 2010.
• ‘Poems That Scream’: Orality/Aurality as a Form of Radicalism and Militancy in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka”. Art Power in Movement, an International Conference Rethinking the Black Power and Black Arts Movements. November 2010.

SKILLS AND TRAINING

• Training Course in Teaching and Assessment Technology, Zarqa, Jordan, October 2003.
• Translation (Arabic English / English Arabic)
• Online Pedagogy, RMU, January 2012.
• TOEFL CBT, GRE General, VB, HTML

AWARDS MEMBERSHIPS:

• IUP Doctoral Fellowship 2009-2010, PKP IUP Chapter
  
• Philadelphia University Scientific Research Grant 2016, iNovel Project.
• DAAD short term grant 2017
• Fulbright Postdoctoral research award 2019