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Marwan M. Obeidat
Professor
English Literature
American Literature
Faculty of Arts
Department of English Language and Literature
obeidat@hu.edu.jo
http://staff.hu.edu.jo/mobeidat
ORCID ID :
274223093
Office No. :
EXT :
3001
C.V. Document file as PDF:
Ph.D.
Indiana/Bloomington
The United States of America,1985
Master
Indiana/Bloomington & Warwick/ England
The United States of America,1985
Bachelor
The University of Jordan
Jordan,1979
Criticism, Orientalism, Arab-American Relations, American Culture, American Civilization
Publications I. Books American Literature and Orientalism. (Berlin: Klaus Schwartz Verlag GmbH, 1998). II. Book Chapters Obeidat, Marwan M. "American Literature in the Arab World: The Challenges and Changes." In American Studies at the Millennium: Ethnicity, Culture &Literature, ed. Lena M. Koski (Turku, Finland: University of Turku Press, 2001): 147-156. III. Articles ________. et. al. “Age of Iron as a Cultural Text: The Question of Apartheid and the Body.” Submitted for publication. Obeidat, Marwan M. "Anglo-American Literary Sources on the Muslim Orient: The Roots and the Reiterations." The Journal of American Studies of Turkey, no.13 (2001): 47-72. (Bilkent University, Turkey). ________."Arabic and the West." The Muslim World LXXXVIII, no. 2 (1998): 185-196. (USA). ________."Beyond American Borders: the Middle East and the Enigma of Anti-American Sentiments in the Aftermath of 9/11." American Studies Today, no. 18 (2009):14-21. (Liverpool John Moores University, England). ________. et. al. “Bridges or Walls? A Study of the Hashemite University English Department Undergraduate Students' Responses to Anglo- American Literature and Culture.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. (Summer, 2011, 3:2) (USA). ________. et. al. “Carter Woodson and Frantz Fanon: Radical Educators and Humanists.” LITERARIA 2, no. 2 (2012): 6-37. (India). ________. "The Cultural Context of American Literature: A Barrier or a Bridge to Understanding?" The Journal of American Studies of Turkey, no. 4 (1996):37-44. (Bilkent University, Turkey). ________. et. al. “Cultures in Contact: How Education and Cultural Studies Help Obliterate Unnecessary Perpetuation of Cross–Cultural Misunderstanding between the USA and the Arab World." Studies in Language and Literature 3, no.1 (August, 2011): 23-29. (Canada). ________. "Donne and Jonson: Towards a Comparison of the Verse Epistles." Faculty of Arts Journal, no. 15 (1993): 16-36. (Sana'a University, Yemen). ________. et. al. "The English Department in the Arab World Re-Visited: Language, Literature, or Translation? A Student's View." College Student Journal 43, no. 4 (December, 2009):961-978. (USA). ________. "Evil Is the Nature of Mankind: The Enigma of Sin and Guilt in Four of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories." Abhath al-Yarmouk 14, no. 1 (1996): 41-66. (Jordan) ________. et. al. " Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby between the Film and the Novel.” Studies in Language and Literature 3, no.1 (August, 2011): 61-63. (Canada). ________. et. al. " Found in Translation: Glowing Expressions of Class, Wealth, Bourgeois and Aristocracy in Jordanian Shop Signs." Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Translation 26, no. 2 (Jul-Dec 2014). (India). ________. "George Henry Miles's Mohammed: America's First Play on the Arabian Prophet." Islamic Quarterly 35, no. 4 (1991):254-262. (England). ________. et. al. “How American Literature Professors Teach Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ to Undergraduate English Majors at Arab Universities: The Hashemite University/ Jordan as an Example.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (Spring, 2013, 6:1):120-129. (USA). ________. "'I Would Prefer Not To': Negative Language and the Negative Character in Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'." Journal of American Studies 29, no. 2 (1997): 581- 604. (Korea). ________. "The Image of Islam in Whittier's Poetry." The International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies 1, no. 2 (1984): 31-40. (USA). ________. "Initiation and Redemption in William Faulkner's The Reivers, with Particular Relevance to Lucius Priest." Abhath al-Yarmouk 10, no. 1 (1992): 9-20. (Jordan). ________. "The Innocent Eye: "Mark Twain's Perceptions of the Muslim Orient as a Traveler." Islamic Studies 29, no. 2 (1990): 195-201. (Pakistan). ________. "In Search of the Orient: The Muslim East on the Contemporary American Literary Scene." The International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies 3, no. 1 (1986): 43-49. (USA). ________. "John Ross Brown: An Example of Nineteenth-Century American Residential Orientalism." al-Fikr al-Arabi 51, no. 1 (1988): 199-206. (In Arabic). (Lebanon). ________. "Language vs. Literature in Departments of English in the Arab World." The English Teaching Forum 35, no. 1 (1997): 30-37. (USA). ________. "Laurie Devine's The Nile: An Example of American Literary Neo-Orientalism." Hamdard Islamicus 26, no. 3 (1993): 147-152. (Pakistan). _______. "Levantine and Arabian Travels: European and American Experiences in the 19th Century." (Part I). The International Journal of Arabic–English Studies 4 (2003): 65-84. (The University of Jordan, Amman). ______."Levantine and Arabian Travels: European and American Experiences in the 20th Century." (Part II). The International Journal of Arabic–English Studies 5 (2004): 93-127. (The University of Jordan, Amman). ________. et. al. "Lexicalized Names and Nouns in Jordanian Arabic: A Sociolinguistic and Translational View." The Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics 3, no. 1, 2009 (USA). ______. et. al. "Lost in Translation: Shop Signs in Jordan." META 53, no.3 (2008):717-728. (Canada). ________. "Lured by the Exotic Levant: The Muslim East to the American Traveler of the Nineteenth Century." Islamic Quarterly 31, no. 3 (1987): 168-93. (England). ________. "Men without Women: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Fictional Couples and the Problem of Matrimonial Separation." The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 13, no. 2 (1997): 1-27. (UAE). _______. "The Muslim Orient on the American Literary Scene: A Bibliographical Note." American Studies International XXVI, no. 2 (1988): 25-36. (USA). ________. "Names and Namings: The Symbolic and Thematic Significance of Names in Three Modern American Short Stories." al-Balqa: Amman University Journal 2, no. 2 (1994): 11-34. (Jordan). ________. "Observations in the East: A Bibliography of American Travel Accounts of the Muslim Near Orient before 1900." Der Islam 68, no. 1 (1991): 115-126. (Germany). ________. "On Non-Native Grounds: the Place of American Literature in the English Curriculum of Arab World Universities." American Studies International XXXIV, no.1 (1996):18-29. (USA). ________. "The Problem of Reverend Gail Hightower: Sacrifice and Communal Consciousness in William Faulkner's Light in August." Abhath al-Yarmouk 7, no. 2 (1989): 7-21. (Jordan). ________. "Prospects for American Studies in the Arab World: Present and Future." American Studies International 35, no. 2 (1997): 77-87. (USA). ________. "Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Muslim Orient." The Muslim World LXVIII, no. 2 (1988): 132-145. (USA). ________. et. al. “The Reception of American Culture in the Middle East after The Arab Spring.” Canadian Social Science Journal 7, no.5 (October 31, 2011). (Canada). ________. et. al. "The Reception of American Literature in Jordan." The Journal of Language and Literature (February, 2010): 11-17. (Azerbaijan). ________. et. al. "Redefining American Spaces: The City, The Land, The Body, and History." American studies International XLII, nos. 2 & 3 (2004): 226-234. (USA). ________. "Re-Evaluating Ways of Teaching American Literature beyond American Borders in the Global Era." Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. (Fall, 2009, 3:2) (USA). ________. "A Reflection on and Analysis of Western Literary Sources on Islam." The International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies 2, no. 2 (1985): 47-67. (USA). ? _______. et. al. “The Relationship between the West and the Middle East: Recipe for a Better Future.” Canadian Social Science Journal 9, no.1 (January 30, 2013): 152-157. (Canada). _______. et. al. “Resistance to Change: Hephzibah and Clifford in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables as Two Case Studies.” Canadian Social Science Journal 8, no.1 (February 29, 2011): 214-216. (Canada). ________. "Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive: An Example of America's Early Literary Awareness of the Muslim Near East." The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 5, no. 2 (1988): 255-261. (USA). ________."The Situation of American Studies in Jordan: Scenario and Diagnosis." International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, no. 4 (2014):176-180. (USA). ________. "Two Lost American Plays: Ideas of the Muslim Barbary Orient." The Maghreb Review 13, nos. 3-4 (1988): 191-198. (England). ________. "Washington Irving and Muslim Spain." The International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies 4, no. 1 (1987): 27-44. (USA).
Teaching and Academic Positions • The Hashemite University, Full Professor • Tafila Technical University, on Sabbatical, Full Professor, 2006 - 2008 • The University of Texas at Arlington, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2012 • The University of Binghamton / New York, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2012 • Western Michigan University, Visiting Scholar, Spring 2007 & Fall 2008 • Oklahoma University, Visiting Scholar, Summer 2005 • George Washington University, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2003 • Northern Illinois University, Fulbright Scholar, Summer 2002 • The Hashemite University, Full Professor, 2003 – Present • The Hashemite University, Associate Professor, 2000-2003 • The University of Qatar, Associate Professor, 1998 - 2000 • United Arab Emirates University, Associate Professor, 1992 -1998 • Yarmouk University, Associate Professor, 1991-1992 • Yarmouk University, Assistant Professor, 1986-1991 • Yarmouk University, Full-Time Lecturer, 1981-1982 • Indiana University, Teaching Assistant, 1984-1985
Courses Taught - Lower-division: Introduction to Literature, Introduction to Fiction, Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Drama, Survey of British and American Literature, Prose and Poetry, Drama and the Essay, Basic Skills of English, the Critical Theory, Introduction to Western Thought, and Introduction to the Novel - Upper-division: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, - Twentieth-Century American Literature, Seminar in Literature, The Novel, Major Writer, The Modern Short Story, Critical Reading and Writing, Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century British and American Drama, The Research Paper, Advanced Writing, and Introduction to American Culture - Graduate: Twentieth-Century American Fiction, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Research Methodology
Teaching and Academic Positions • The Hashemite University, Full Professor • Tafila Technical University, on Sabbatical, Full Professor, 2006 - 2008 • The University of Texas at Arlington, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2012 • The University of Binghamton / New York, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2012 • Western Michigan University, Visiting Scholar, Spring 2007 & Fall 2008 • Oklahoma University, Visiting Scholar, Summer 2005 • George Washington University, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2003 • Northern Illinois University, Fulbright Scholar, Summer 2002 • The Hashemite University, Full Professor, 2003 – Present • The Hashemite University, Associate Professor, 2000-2003 • The University of Qatar, Associate Professor, 1998 - 2000 • United Arab Emirates University, Associate Professor, 1992 -1998 • Yarmouk University, Associate Professor, 1991-1992 • Yarmouk University, Assistant Professor, 1986-1991 • Yarmouk University, Full-Time Lecturer, 1981-1982 • Indiana University, Teaching Assistant, 1984-1985
Membership in Professional Organizations • Member of the Organization of American Historians (USA) • Member of the American Studies Association (USA) • Member of the Asian Studies Society of New York University (USA) • Member of the Middle East Studies Association (USA) • Member of the Indiana University Alumni Association (USA) • Member of the American Studies Center of the Salzburg Seminar (Austria) • Member of the Society of Friends of Research at Jordanian Universities (Jordan) • Member of the Faculties of Arts of the Arab-World Universities Association (Jordan) • First Vice President of the Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities (APETAU, Jordan) • Member of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
• Oklahoma University Visiting Scholar, the summer of 2005. • Northern Illinois University Fulbright Scholar, the summer of 2002, sponsored by the U.S. State Department. • Nominated by the American Biographical Institute to serve on the Board of Research Advisors, 1999 - . (USA). • Nominated by the American Biographical Institute for inclusion in the Seventh Edition of The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership (1998) and for the title "Man of the Year," 1977. (USA). Membership in Professional Organizations • Member of the Organization of American Historians (USA) • Member of the American Studies Association (USA) • Member of the Asian Studies Society of New York University (USA) • Member of the Middle East Studies Association (USA) • Member of the Indiana University Alumni Association (USA) • Member of the American Studies Center of the Salzburg Seminar (Austria) • Member of the Society of Friends of Research at Jordanian Universities (Jordan) • Member of the Faculties of Arts of the Arab-World Universities Association (Jordan) • First Vice President of the Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities (APETAU, Jordan) • Member of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) Editorial Service and Reviewing for Regional and International Academic Journals • The International Journal of Communication (India), 2010- • Language Forum: A Journal of Language and Literature (India), 2010- • The Jordanian Journal of Modern Languages and Literature (Jordan) 2010- • The International Journal of Academic Research (Azerbaijan), 2008-2009 • Scientific Journals International: Literature, Language and Linguistics (USA), 2007- • The Journal of American History (USA), 1990- • Connections: American History and Culture in an International Perspective (USA) ), 1990- • American Studies International (USA), 1992-2005 • Faculties of Arts Society Journal (Jordan), 2002-2005 • Abhath al-Yarmouk: Literature and Linguistics Series (Jordan), 1988-1991
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