Current Graduate Students

Ryan Fan
Ph.D. Candidate in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin

Contact
- E-mail: ryanfan@utexas.edu
Interests
Moroccan Sign Language, Egyptian Sign Language, Arabic Dialectology, & TAFL
Biography
Ryan Fan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Arabic Linguistics track at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. He is currently working on his dissertation on spoken and signed language contact in Egypt and Morocco. His other research interests include verbal borrowing in Arabic dialects, the evolution of fingerspelling systems, and the application of linguistic and anthropological principles in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language. Ryan has taught as the primary and assistant instructor for several generations of students in UT Austin's Arabic Flagship Program.
He is a two-time Fulbright recipient (Morocco 2016-2017 and Egypt 2010-2011) and a CASA Fellow (Cairo 2011-2012), and he holds a BA in Linguistics and Mathematics from Cornell University.