Jason Vivrette holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from
the University of California, Berkeley, as well as extensive
training in Education and Foreign Language Pedagogy (Arabic,
Turkish, Italian, and Persian). Since 2010, he has served as a
program director at the CLS Summer Arabic Program in Tunis,
Tunisia. He is also the Arabic Language Program Coordinator and
Co-Director of Middle East and Islamic Studies at San Francisco
State University.
Areas of interest include multi-modal literacies, teaching language
and culture with technology, dialectology, language socialization
and identity construction, and film studies.