Katrien Vanpee

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

231E Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Arabic Program Director,

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Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Arabic (Literature & Linguistics), Georgetown University, 2014
M.A.: Arab Studies, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 2007
M.A.: Arabic & Islamic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2004
B.A. : Arabic & Islamic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2002
B.A. : Germanic languages, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2000

Publications

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Vanpee, Katrien. "Multidialectal Approaches and Social Justice Pedagogy: Toward Linguistically and Culturally Diversified Arabic Curricula for the Collegiate U.S. Arabic Classroom." Critical Multilingualism Studies 11.1 (February 2024): 26-64.
Vanpee, Katrien. "Toward Systematic Diversification of Collegiate U.S. Arabic Language Curricula." Second Language Research & Practice 3 (November 2022): 140-150.
Vanpee, Katrien. "Allegiance Performed: Waṭaniyyah Poetry on the Stage of the Shāʿir al-Milyūn Competition." Journal of Arabic Literature 50.2 (2019): 173-196.
Vanpee, Katrien. "Responding to “Making Change Happen”: Students as Partners for Change." The Modern Language Journal 101.2 (2017): 427-430.
Vanpee, Katrien, Dan Soneson. "Arabic Proficiency Improvement Through a Culture of Assessment." Foreign Language Proficiency in Higher Education (2019): 197-216.
Vanpee, Katrien. "Hoda Barakat's Sayyidi wa-Habibi: The Authorized Abridged Edition for Students of Arabic ed. by Laila Familiar (review)." al-'Arabiyya 50 (2017): 151-153.
Vanpee, Katrien, Mark Van Mol, Katrien Vanpee and Amal Marogy. La Mafarr: Leermethode Arabisch . Peeters, 2007.

Activities

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Past-President, Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures (MCTLC) 2024
Committee on Second Language Education 2014 - 2016
PACE Project Advisory Board 2015 - 2017
CARLA Executive Committee 2016 - Present
American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) Executive Board January 2017 - Present

Awards

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College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2024
Qatar Foundation International School Break Arabic Program Grant, 2022, 2023, 2024
Provost's Professional Papers Award, Gettysburg College, Nov 2012
Research and Dissertation Fellowship, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, 2011 - 2012
Qatar Scholarship, Qatar University, 2005 - 2006
Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship, 2004 - 2005
Translation Grant Katholieke University Leuven, Schlaining, Austria, Summer 2000

Courses

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