Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

• Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
• Director, Indiana Seminar in Arabic Literature
• Executive Editor, Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.A., Wellesley College, 1972
• Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981

Research Interests

• Classical Arabic Poetry
• Ritual, Performance, and Historicist Approaches to the Qasidah
• Praise Poetry to the Prophet

Contact Information

Courses Recently Taught

• Poetry and Empire: the Arabic Ode (in English)
• Tracing the Nasibic Journey (in Arabic)
• Translating Arabic Poetry, Modern, and Classical
• The Mantle Odes: Praise Poem to the Prophet (in English and in Arabic)

Publication Highlights
[For complete list see CV]

• Abū Tammām and the Poetics of the ‛Abbāsid Age
  ARABIC TRANSLATION by Hassan Ezz el-Din, Al-Shi`r wa al-Shi`riyyah fi al-`Asr al-`Abbasi. Egyptian National Center for Translation, 2008. 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.
• Early Islamic Poetry and Poetics: The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, 37. United Kingdom: Ashgate Variorum, 2009.
• The Mantle Odes: Arabic Praise Poems to the Prophet Muhammad. Indiana University Press, 2010.

             

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