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Zeina Tamer Schlenoff

Associate In

 

 

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E-mail: zschleno@mailer.fsu.edu
Office: DIF Room 342
Phone: 850-644-3012

 

 

Background Summary  

Dr. Zeina Tamer Schlenoff (Ph.D 1995, UMass, Amherst) was born and raised in Lebanon. She specializes in 20th century French and Francophone Literature, especially women writers from the Arab World. She has taught foreign languages for non-native speakers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the Florida State University and the American University of Beirut, Lebanon (French and/or Arabic) for 18 years. She is currently the coordinator of the Arabic Language Program at FSU and the co-Director and academic advisor for the BA Degree in Middle Eastern Studies (www.fsu.edu/~mec). She is also the external examiner of Arabic for NASILP at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Schlenoff was the Founding Director for the Summer Arabic Language Program at American University of Beirut from 2000-2003 and is currently the Associate Director of the Middle East Center at FSU. She is the author of “Le bonheur chez la femme colettienne” and numerous articles on literature and culture in the Arab World. She also conducts research on Orientalism and Colonialism, Women's Issues and Cultural Stereotyping.
Dr. Schlenoff received the University Teaching Award in 2004-05 and is also the recipient of a Title VI-A grant from the U.S. Department of Education and a grant from Saudi Aramco.

 

 

Dr. Zeina Schlenoff speaks about her teaching:
Part of my style is to interact personally with my students. Our classroom is a lively one, with a great deal of student involvement and interaction. During each class, I stimulate the students' imagination, get them to think analytically and challenge themselves, all in a non-competitive, non-intimidating environment. 

http://registrar.fsu.edu/bulletin/undergrad/pdf/2006_gen_color.pdf


 

Courses taught at FSU:

Beginning Arabic I
Beginning Arabic II
Intermediate Arabic
Formal Spoken Arabic
Arabic Translation
Media Arabic
Levantine Arabic
Survey of the Middle East
Modern Arab Women Writers
Modern Middle East Cinema
Women and Islam
Conversation in Standard Arabic
Survey of Modern French Literature: 18th to 20th Centuries

Abbreviated C.V.

 

 

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Type in Arabic:

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