Khalil Masmoudi is an Instructor of Arabic whose area of interest includes Arabic language, modern Arabic literature and North Africa. He was educated in Tunisia where he got his Master’s from the Université de Sfax, Tunisia in Arabic Language and Literature. He taught Arabic language and culture at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. He has extensive teaching and Academic experience. He has taught courses of all levels of Arabic. In the fall of 2006 he joined the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware.

Since 2008 he developed and directed the University of Delaware Study Abroad Program in Tunisia and more recently he developed a study abroad program to be taking place in Morocco, starting in the winter of 2015. Professor Masmoudi has participated in several workshops and conferences and was appointed the Academic director of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in Tunisia in the summer 2012.