Dr. Schroepfer earned his B.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught all levels of Arabic courses offered at VMI. His research revolves around Arabic dialectology and sociolinguistics in Arabic-speaking communities, with a particular interest in Egypt. He is an author of the book A Grammar of Arabic (Routledge). His articles have been published in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, International Journal of Arabic Linguistics, Die Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morganlandes, The Semitic Languages (Routledge), and Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Work (Harrassowitz).