Samuel Liebhaber. Arabic Language & Literature. Employment: Education: Fellowships and Grants:

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1 Samuel Liebhaber Arabic Language & Literature 205 Farrell House Middlebury College Middlebury, VT (802) Employment: Director of Arabic Program, Middlebury College ( ) Assistant Professor of Arabic and International Studies, Middlebury College (2007 to present) Education: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2007) Department of Near Eastern Studies: Arabic Literature Dissertation: Bedouin Without Arabic: Language, Poetry and the Mahra of Southeast Yemen Committee: Margaret Larkin (Chair), Bridget Connelly (Outside Member), John Hayes and James Monroe Examination Fields: Classical Arabic Poetry, Classical Arabic Literary Criticism, Andalusian Arabic Vernacular Poetry M.A. University of California, Berkeley Department of Near Eastern Studies: Comparative Semitics Awarded with Distinction (2000) Examination Fields: Arabic Linguistic Tradition, Arabian Epigraphy, Cuneiform Akkadian A.B. Dartmouth College Graduated Summa Cum Laude and with High Honors for Senior Thesis (1996) Major: Greek and Latin Fellowships and Grants: National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, Fulbright Fellowship, Middle East and North Africa Research Program, (not activated) American Institute for Yemeni Studies Research Grant (2009, deferred due to State Dept. travel ban) American Institute for Yemeni Studies Research Grant (2007) Chancellor s Dissertation-Year Fellowship ( ) Sultan Abd al-aziz Graduate Fellowship, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies ( ) American Institute for Yemeni Studies Fellowship ( ) Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship ( ) Hewlett Fellowship for Graduate Work in Near Eastern Studies ( ) Mellon Fellowship for Graduate Work in Near Eastern Studies ( ) Josephine de Kármán Fellowship (not activated) ( ) 1

2 CASA Fellowship for the Full-Year Program, including award from the Starr Foundation for earning highest score on the CASA entry exam (not activated) ( ) Mellon Research Grant for research in Yemen ( ) Humanities Research Grant for research in Yemen ( ) Graduate Division Summer Grant (2002) FLAS Summer Award for Arabic studies in Yemen (1998) Goheen Prize for research in Yemen (1998) Publications: Arabian Prosody Revisited: A Spectrographic Analysis. Wiener Offene Orientalistik/Sµdarabien- Symposion: (in press, to be published at the end of 2012). Rhetoric, Rite of Passage and the Mahri Tribal Ode. Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures (in press, to be published in 2013). The Dıwapplen of Happlejj DapplekΩn: Introduction and Commentary by Sam Liebhaber. Ardmore: The American Institute for Yemeni Studies, The umaynı Pulse Moves East: Yemeni Nationalism Meets Mahri Sung Poetry. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 38/2 (2011): Rhythm and Beat: Re-evaluating Arabic Prosody in Light of Mahri Oral Poetry Journal of Semitic Studies 55/1 (2010): Written Mahri, Mahri Fuß apple and Their Implications for Early Historical Arabic. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 40 (2010): Playing With Poetry in Southern Arabia. International Studies Magazine, Middlebury College (2008). The Book of Sana a (Kitappleb anfiapple ) by Dr. fiabd al-fiazız al-maqappleli, trans. Bob Holman and Sam Liebhaber, Ardmore: The American Institute for Yemeni Studies, Al-Shanfarapple and The Mountain Poem of Ibn Khafappleja: Some Observations on Patterns of Intertextuality. Journal of Arabic Literature 34 (2003): Presentations: The Ḥimyarite Kings of North Africa: How the Touareg Became Arabs, International and Global Studies Colloquium, Middlebury College, (10/19/2012) Rhetoric, Rite of Passage and the Mahri Tribal Ode The Seminar for Arabian Studies, The British Museum (7/14/2012) South Arabia and the Amazigh Imaginary Berber Symposium: Language, Society and Culture in Tunisia and Beyond at the Centre d Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (3/6/2012) (invited talk) Invited to present three lectures at The Mehri Language Workshop, organized by the Centre for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford (5/27/2011): History of the Mehri-speaking Region Mehri Oral Literature: Poetry, Songs and Folklore The Dialectology and Sociolinguistics of Mehri Disappearing Act: The Mahri Language of Southern Arabic Language Works Faculty Speaker Series, Middlebury College (11/11/2010) Written Mahri, Mahri Fuß apple and Their Implications for Early Historical Arabic The Seminar for Arabian Studies, The British Museum (2009) 2

3 A String of Pearls: Narrative Structure and The Pre-Islamic Qasida Talking About Literature Series, Literature Program in Conjunction with Introduction to World Literature Course, Middlebury College (3/19/2009) Rhythm and Beat: Re-evaluating Arabic Prosody in Light of Mahri Oral Poetry Middle East Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C. (2008) Organized Panel: Revisiting al-hamdani: New Perspectives on the Indigenous Language Communities of the South Arabian Periphery Middle East Studies Association Conference, Montréal (2007) umaynı Poetry in al-mahra? Middle East Studies Association Conference, Montréal (2007) Oral Traditions and the New School of Poetry and Song in the Mahri Language of Southeast Yemen Middle East Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C. (2005) The Mahri Language, Mahri Poetry and Indigenous Expressions in Southeast Arabia Crossing Over: Learning to Navigate the Borderlands of Intercultural Encounters, Cleveland State University (2005) The Lyric Poetry of appleππ bir fialı DapplekΩn, a Contemporary Poet of al-mahra Fifth International Conference on Yemeni Civilization, Sana a (2004) Oral Taditions and The New School of Mahri Verse American Institute for Yemeni Studies, Sana a (2004) Oral Taditions and The New School of Mahri Verse: An Analysis of Contemporary Poetry in the Mahri Language of SE Yemen Centre Français d Archeologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sana a (2004) Adapting Arabian Motifs into the Poetic Idiom of al-andalus: The Case of The Mountain Poem of Ibn Khafappleja Arabic, Hebrew & Spanish Literature in the Iberian Peninsula: A Symposium in Memory of Amérigo Castro, University of California, Berkeley (2003) The Colloquial Poetry of Ibn Quzmapplen: Form and Meaning Middle East Studies Association Conference, Anchorage (2003) Representations of Epigraphy and Writing in the Nasıb: An Historical Examination of a pre-islamic Motif Middle East Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C. (2002) Other Media: South Arabia and the Berber Imaginary on Tabsir.net (invited post) ( Translation of Mahmoud Darwish s poem Haraba l-waqtu minnā for On The Road series with Bob Holman ( Website: Mahri Poetry Archive ( Teaching Resumé: Middlebury College ARBC101 - Introductory Arabic (Fall 2007, 2008) ARBC401 Advanced Arabic II: History of the Qasida (Fall 2007) ARBC103 Introductory Arabic (Spring 2008, Spring 2011) ARBC301 Advanced Arabic I (Fall 2010) ARBC302 Advanced Arabic I (Spring 2008) ARBC402 Independent Study: Readings in Arab Women s Autobiographies (Spring 2008) ARBC102 Introductory Arabic (Winter 2009) ARBC202 Intermediate Arabic (Spring 2009) 3

4 INTL706 MES Senior Thesis: Jessamy Klapper, Introduction to a Dinosaur-Poet: Usama al-dinasoury (Spring 2009) ARBC210 Arabia: A Literary Approach (Fall 2009) ARBC101 Introductory Arabic (Fall 2009) LITP101 Introduction to World Literature (Spring 2010) ARBC202 Intermediate Arabic (Spring 2010) UC Berkeley Introductory Arabic, Berkeley Summer Session, Lecturer (2006) NES 10: Introduction to the Middle East, Teaching Assistant (2005) Arabic 1B, Instructor (2005) Introductory Arabic, Berkeley Summer Session, Lecturer (2003) Arabic 1A, Instructor (2002) Arabic 1A-1B, Instructor ( ) Arabic 1A-1B, Instructor ( ) Attended Arabic Pedagogy Seminar: Teaching College Arabic by Dr. Sonia S hiri, UC Berkeley ( ) Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2003) Development Grant from Educational Technology Services at UC Berkeley: to produce a series of computer-based, self-correcting tests for use with the introductory Arabic textbook, al-kitappleb fı Tafiallum al-arabiyya, Part 1 (2002) Middlebury Summer Languages Program: Bilingual Assistant of the Arabic School, Middlebury College Summer Language Schools (2001) Bilingual Assistant of the Arabic School, Middlebury College Summer Language Schools (2000) Special Projects Development of Mahri Digital Archive with support of Special Collections at the Davis Family Library Professional Development: Attended Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC): Distinguished/Professional Level Arabic at San Diego State University (Summer 2007) Attended Center for the Arabic Language and Eastern Studies, Sana a (Summer 2008) Completed Advanced Arabic Literature Tutorial (125 hours total) at the Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes (Sept Dec. 2011) Professional Service: Reviewer for the Critical Languages Scholarship, CAORC (2010, 2011) Outside Reader for the Journal of Arabic Literature (2011) Member of Alfred P. Sloan Award Steering Committee (2009-present) Elected Delegate-at-Large, Board of the Directors to the American Institute for Yemeni Studies ( ) Re-elected Delegate-at-Large, Board of the Directors to the American Institute for Yemeni Studies ( ) Faculty Advisory Board for Middlebury College s Arabic and Hebrew Language Schools Abroad (2008-present) 4

5 Faculty Advisor for the Arabic House, Middlebury College (2008-present) Member of the Search Committee for the Director of the Arabic School Abroad in Jordan (2011) Member of Arabic Search Committee (tenure-track position), Middlebury College (2008) Member of Hebrew Search Committee, Middlebury College (2008) Member of Arabic Search Committee, Middlebury College (2007) Member of the Selection Committee: Women In Technology Yemen sponsored by the Middle East Partnership Initiative and the United States Department of State, San Francisco (2006) Member of the Speaker Bureau for The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley 5