Sean David Hobbs

About Sean David Hobbs

My passion is multimedia storytelling and adult education! I am a dynamic media manager…

Experience

1. Novelist

   Triton College

   Jan 1994 — Present · Everywhere, US

   I bring my multimedia skills - audio and video production - to my novels, making them digitally interactive \"ebooks.\"​• Co-Wrote the published memoir Run Ruby Run with New Orleans shooting victim: Completed a fictionalized memoir about Istanbul, Turkey - where I lived for 6 years before coming to Cairo.• Working on a non-fiction book about Gülen Movement in Egypt.• Translating the Turkic Oral Epic poem Alpamish from Kazaki Turkish to English.• Finished Creative Writing English Degree from UW Madison• Short story recognition for excerpt of novel (Tennessee Williams Festival/New Orleans Literary Festival, 2009)

Education

• University of Cambridge

  Teaching Certificate, English

  2005 — 2005

• The American University in Cairo

  Master's Degree, Middle East Studies

  2012

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor, English - Creative Writing; History of the Middle East

  1995 — 2000

• T.O.M.E.R. Istanbul - Turkish Learning Center in Istanbul

  Turkish Language and Literature

  2001 — 2004

Skills

• Storytelling
• Writing
• Journalism
• Blogging
• Teaching
• Multimedia
• Broadcast Journalism
• Editing
• Creative Writing
• Radio Broadcasting
• Higher Education
• College Teaching
• Tv News Production
• Digital Journalism
• Online Journalism
• Language Teaching
• Teaching Reading
• English Teaching
• Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• Acting
• Publications
• Social Media
• Literature
• Politics
• History
• Video
• Copy Editing
• Nonprofits
• Esl
• Academic Writing
• Research
• Translation
• Public Speaking
• Proofreading
• English
• Radio
• Course Creation
• Intercultural Skills
• Course Management
• Online Social Networking