After successfully defending his dissertation (Shifting Dunes: Changing Meanings of Urdu in India) in August, Rizwan Ahmad joined the faculty of the American University of Kuwait as Assistant Professor of English. In this three-year appointment, he will teach courses in composition and history of the English language.

Rizwan is also currently collaborating with Elabbas Benmamoun of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is a Fulbright fellow at the American University of Kuwait. Their project explores aspects of language and ethnicity in Kuwait, focusing on speakers of Egyptian and Lebanese dialects who were born and raised in Kuwait.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 6:58 pm and is filed under Graduate, Research.