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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Suzanne StetkevychSuzanne Stetkevych

  • Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Comparative Literature

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. at The University of Chicago, 1981

Research Interests

  • Classical Arabic Poetry
  • Ritual, performance, and Historicist approaches to the qasidah
  • Praise Poetry to the Prophet

Contact Information

stetkevy@indiana.edu
Goodbody 319
(812) 335-4323

Courses Recently Taught

  • Seminars in Classical and Modern Arabic Literature: Comparative Approaches to the Classical Arabic Ode
  • Praise Poems to the Prophet
  • Contemporary Approaches to Modern Arabic Poetry
  • The Poetry and Prose of al-Andalus
  • Islamic Foundational Texts

Publication Highlights

  • Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ‛Abbāsid Age. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991.
  • The Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1993.
  • Adab al-Siyāsah wa-Siyāsat al-Adab: al-Tafīir al-Tuqūsī li-Qasīdat al-Madh fī al-Shi‛r al-‛Arabī al-Qadīm (=The Poetics of Politics and the Politics of Poetics: Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Panegyric Ode). Trans. Hasan al-Banna `Izz al-Din with the author. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 1998.
  • The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy: Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Classical Arabic Ode. Indiana University Press, 2002.
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