تعريف بمدير معهد الدراسات الأمريكية في البحرين

Curriculum Vitae

 

Personal Data

 

Name:              John Hillis

Citizenship:     USA

 

Address:          P.O. Box 30240

                        Budaiya, Bahrain

Tel: 973-17-438824; 973-3-989-4391

E-mail:  jhillis@arts.uob.bh; 2jhillis@gmail.com

 

Education       1977, Ph.D. University of California, Davis, CA, USA

               English        

 

Employment  1987-present: Assistant Professor of English, University of Bahrain

   

                        1993-present: External Examiner, International Baccalaureate Organization

 

1981-87: Assistant Professor of English, King Fahad University

               of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

 

                        1977-80: Assistant Professor of English, College of Education, Abha, Saudi

   Arabia

 

                        1975-77: Assistant Professor of English, Birzeit University, Palestine

 

Administrative position        

 

                                1998-present: Director, American Studies Center, Department of English                                                  Language and Literature, University of Bahrain

 

Administrative and academic duties (related to American Studies Program)

 

                        Developed mission statement and minor program

                        Established curriculum

                        Designed courses and course descriptions

                        Hired and assigned staff

                        Developed ASC budget

                        Purchased equipment, books, software, etc.

                        Developed materials catalog

                        Taught courses in American literature and culture

                        2005 – organized major symposium on “Diverse Voices in American

                                    Literature”

                        2007 – organized and chaperoned student trip to American Studies Center,                                    American University in Cairo

                        2008 – organizing student trip to American Studies Center,             University of                                       Jordan

                        Assigned courses to Fulbright lecturers

                        Publicized and directed various scholarship programs

                        Organized and sponsored regular guest lectures

                        Organized trips to U.S. Navy facilities

                        Initiated relations with local organizations, e.g. American Women’s

                                    Association, American Association, Naval Support Activity, etc.

                        Organized end of semester/end of year social occasions

                        Established Alumni Association

                        May 2008 – Organizing 10^th anniversary celebration

 

Conferences   2005 – Session coordinator at “America in the Middle East; the Middle East in

                                    America” at the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR),

                                    American University of Beirut.

 

                        Forthcoming – Panel participant in “American Studies in the Middle East: An

                                    Open Discussion”, January 2008 at CASAR Conference “Liberty and                                Justice: America and the Middle East”, American University of

                                    Beirut

                       

Recent publications

 

                        2007 – Journal of Bahrain Centre for Science and Research: review of The

                                   Other Side of Israel by Susan Nathan

 

                        2008 – forthcoming: chapter on “American Studies Center at the University of

                                    Bahrain” in Edward and Eileen Lundy, eds., American Studies

                                    Programs in the Middle East

 

Awards           1996: Teacher of the Year, College of Arts, University of Bahrain