Hanada Al-Masri, assistant professor of Arabic, presented a talk at the 46th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference in Toronto Canda on April 30, 2015. The theme of the panel was “Building a Proficiency-Oriented Arabic Curriculum”. This panel considered the challenges and opportunities in building an effective proficiency-oriented Arabic curriculum. She presented about “The integration of Spoken and Standard Arabic: the model adopted at Denison University.”

Al-Masri joined the department in 2012 and teaches Arabic. She earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Jordan, Jordan and her Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, Indiana.

Her research is in linguistics, pragmatics and translation studies (with a focus on literary translation)