Personal: Married, with two children. U.S. citizen. Excellent health. Languages: Arabic, French, and Spanish.

EDUCATION
    Visiting Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1982-83.
    Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Binghamton University, 1979.
    Graduate Certificate (MA-level), Translation Theory and Practice, Binghamton    University, 1977.
    M.F.A., Poetry Writing, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1972.
    A.B. (cum laude), English, Dartmouth College, 1968.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE*
    1992-Pr: Professor and Journal Editor, Truman State University.
    1993-94: Fulbright Visiting Professor, UAE University
    1986-92: Associate Professor and Journal Editor, Truman State University.
    1983-86: Assistant Professor, Georgia Southwestern University.
    1982-83: Lecturer, Tufts University.
    1981-82: Assistant Professor, Bahrain University.
    1980-81: Assistant Professor, King Saud University.
    1978-80: Instructor, Northeastern University.
    1972-76: Instructor, University of Wyoming.

AREAS OF EXPERTIES
    Comparative Literature, Modern American Poetry, Modern Arabic Literature, Translation Theory and Practice, Creative Writing, Literary Editing, Poetry Writing, Beast Fable.

PUBLICATIONS
Books & Monographs
Under Contract
    Sein Kampf: A Saluki’s Memoirs of a Twenty-Year Term on a Labor Farm. Chapel Hill, NC: Scarab Books, 2005
    The Encyclopedia of Animals in Literature. Compiled and edited by Ben Bennani. Westport, CT, and London:
        Greenwood Press, 2005.
    The Critical Response to N. Scott Momaday. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press,2003.
    Primal Sympathy: Poems. Completed; looking for a publisher.
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In Print
    Shahrazad’s Sisters/Shahrayar’s Brothers: An Anthology of Arabic Literature Since 1950. Selected, edited, and
        partly translated by Ben Bennani. Truman State University: A Paintbrush Monograph, 2002.
    Psalms: Poems by Mahmud Darwish. Colorado Springs: Three Continents Press, 1994.
    The World of Ngugi wa Thiongo. A Paintbrush Monograph. Ben Bennani, General Editor. Africa World Press, 1996.
    Translation and Lexicography (Proceedings of the 1987 Innsbruck Colloquium of EURALEX). Ben Bennani, General
        Editor.Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1989.
    Bread, Hashish, and Moon: Four Modern Arab Poets. Unicorn Press, 1982.
    Camel’s Bite: Poems. Jelm Mountain Press, 1980.
    A Bowl of Sorrow: Poems. Greenfield Review Press, 1978.
    Splinters of Bone: Poems by Mahmud Darwish. Greenfield Review Press, 1974.

Articles
    “Ibn Tufayl and Daniel Defoe: Translation As Cross-Cultural Insemination,” in Studia Mystica, Vol. XV, No. 1 (Spring
        1992).
    “No Ceremony for Men in the Sun: Sexuality, Personhood, and Nationhood in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and
        Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun,” in Richard F. Fleck, ed.,Critical Perspectives on Native American Literature
        (Three Continents Press, 1992).
    “This Vast Self,” in Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry. University of Utah Press, 1988.
    “From Literacy to Democracy: The Composition Teacher’s Odyssey,” in Notes on Teaching English, Vol. XII, No.1
        (Spring 1984).
     “Translating Poetry: An Interpretative, Intertextual Approach,” in Marilyn Gaddis Rose, ed., Translation Spectrum
        (SUNY Press, 1980).
 “The Experience of a Poet of Experience,” in Leviathan: A Journal of Politics and Culture (Boston 1980).
 Book Review of G. Boulus’ Hejjeh Helena, and Other Stories, in Books Abroad (Winter 1975).

Anthologies
    Arab-American Poets: An Anthology. Edited by Nathalie Handal. N.Y., 2003.
    Memories and Memoirs.  Mid-America Press, 2000.
    The Space Between Our Footsteps. Simon and Schuster, 1998.
    This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World. Macmillan, 1992.
    The Decade Dance: Celebrating Poetry in the Eighties. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1989.
    Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry. University of Utah Press, 1988.

Interview
    “Poetry As Art,” interviewed by Brian Hagerla, in Windfall (Spring 1989).

Original Poetry
    Massachusetts Review, Lock Haven Review, Cat’s Ear, International Poetry Review, Chariton Review, Windsor
        Review, Georgia Journal, Thoreau Journal Quarterly, San Francisco Quarterly, MSS, Black Mountain Review,
        New England Galaxy, Dartmouth Magazine, River Styx, and others.

Translations
    Boundary 2, Pacific Quarterly, Journal of Arabic Literature, Chelsea, Granite, Mundus Artium, Agni Review,
        Contemporary Literature in Translation, Mr. Cogito, Artful Dodge, Copperhead, Chariton Review, Osiris, Bleb
        Magazine, Wyoming Review, and others.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
    Member, Literature Panel, Missouri Arts Council, 1989-1994 .
    President/Treasurer, Beast Fable Society of America, 1987–.
    Chief Administrative Officer of a large international community of scholars, educators, and translators,
        representing eighteen universities in eight different countries.
    Executive Director, International Congress of the Beast Fable Society, 1988- . Responsibilities include the creation,
        implementation, and directing of a yearly, week-long international congress overseas.
    Chairman, University Press Committee, Bahrain University, 1981-82. Responsible for the creation of a university
        press.
    Chairman, Translator Training Program, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1980-81. Responsibilities
        consisted of curriculum design and implementation of program in translation.
    Director, Translation Center, SUNY-Binghamton, 1976-77. Responsibilities included faculty course assignments,
        room assignments, and certification of masters and doctoral students in translation.
    President/Treasurer, Ishtar Press, Inc., 1974- . Since 1974, the press has published a journal of poetry, two
        books, and several special monographs.
    Coordinator, News & Publications, Department of English, Northeastern Univ., 1979-80.
    President, Le cercle français, Dartmouth College, 1967-68.
    Chairman, the Cosmopolitan Club, Dartmouth Colege, 1966-67.

HONORS & AWARDS
    NEH Summer Institute , SOAS (University of London), 1998
    NEH Summer Institute , Binghamton University, 1993
    Fulbright Senior Professor, United Arab Emirates University, 1993-94.
    Rockefeller Fellow, Bellagio Study Center, Italy, Fall 1991.
    NEH Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992.
    Summer Research Grant, Truman State University, 1987, 1989.
    First Prize, Poetry Society of St. Louis, Fall 1988.
    Distinguished Standing, The American Biographical Institute, 1987- .
    International Travel Grant, Truman State University, Spring 1987.
    NEH Summer Seminar, Princeton University, 1986.
    NEA Grant, 1976.
    Summer Research Grant, Univ. of Wyoming, 1975.
    Teacher-of-the-Year Award, Berkshire College, Fall 1971.
    Baccalaureate Degree with Honors, Dartmouth College, 1968.
    Fulbright-Hays Scholarship, 1964-68.
    Class Valedictorian, 1964.

PAPERS, SEMINARS, & WORKSHOPS
    “Translating Arabic Literature,” Organizer and Round-Table Leader, American Literary Translators’ Association,
        Raleigh, NC, Oct. 2001.
    “Aladdin, the Nadir of Faith,” Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, Spring 1996.
    “Violence Against Women,” The Ghandi Institute, Wellesley College, Fall 1994.
    “Translating, Editing, and Publishing Arabic/Islamic Literature in the United States: Aesthetics, Economics, and the
        Hermeneutics of Reception,” MLA 1989, Session Chairman and Panelist.
    “Literary Editing,” Symposium on Contemporary Letters, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1989.
    “Writing, Cultural Literacy, and Third-World Literature,” Respondent CCCC 1988.
    “Islam and 17th- and 18th-Century English Literature,” MLA 1985.
    “Language Acquisition: A Creative-Writer’s Approach,” Univ. of Cincinnati 5th Conference on Languages, Fall 1985.
    “Writing Across the Curriculum,” Georgia Southern College Conference on Writing, May 1984.
    “Teaching non-Western Literature,” NEH Conference, Montclair S. College, December 1984.
    “Images of Women in Rock Videos,” Popular Culture Assoc. Univ. of Tennessee (Knoxville), October 1984.
    “Translating Poetry,” Keynote Address, Bahrain Literary Festival, March 1982.
    “Stereotypes of the Arab in English Literature,” MLA 1979.
    “Teaching Literary Translation,” American Translators Association, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1977.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
    Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Editor, 1987-Present .
    The Chariton Review, Associate Editor, 1986-Present.
    Paintbrush: A Journal of Poetry and Translation, Editor, 1974-Present.
    Ishtar Press, Inc., Founder & Editor, 1974-Present .
    Writing Across the Curriculum Newsletter, Founder & Editor, Northeastern University, 1977-78.
    The Wyoming Review, Faculty Advisor, 1975-76.
    Clay & Pine, Faculty Advisor, Georgia Southwestern S. U., 1984-86.

MEMBERSHIPS
    American Literary Translators Association, American Translators Association, Associated Writing Programs,
    Beast Fable Society of America, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, Modern Language Association,
    Poets & Writers, Rotary International, Societee Renardienne, American Literary Translators Association.

REFERENCES
    Kenneth Varty, University of Glasgow
    Jim Barnes, Truman State University
    Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Binghamton University
    Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University

A confidential dossier is available upon request from:
    Office of Career Services
    Harvard University
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
    Tel.: (617) 495-2787

*ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE acquired in graduate school:
    1968-72:Teaching Fellow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
    970-71:Instructor, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA.
    1971-72:Instructor, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA.