教师 and 工作人员

办公时间: Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15, and by appointment

B.A., Tel Aviv University; M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University

I teach 阿拉伯语 language courses from elementary to advanced, and a variety of courses on Classical (Premodern) 阿拉伯语 literature and contemporary 阿拉伯 music. My research interests lie at the intersection of literature and music. I’ve published articles on the discourse on music in philosophical and Islamic writings, 等, in the writings of al-Fārābī and al-Ghazālī, and on ʿAbbāsid court 诗歌.

I also teach individual lessons on the oud, the 阿拉伯 lute (see my profile on 菲律宾十大彩票平台’s Music Department page).

办公时间:

Wednesdays 3:15-4:15 and Fridays 2:30-3:30; and by appointment

Stacy Beckwith (B.A. University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D. University of Minnesota) teaches 希伯来语 language courses from elementary through intermediate, as well as courses in translation on Israeli and Palestinian literature and film, and on broader Jewish history through collective memory. She primarily researches how Jews and Catholic converts appear in historical fiction written in Spain today. Her edited volume, Charting Memory: Recalling Medieval Spain (2000), examines modern Jewish, 阿拉伯, and Hispanic memories of multicultural Iberia, as expressed in ongoing traditions of music, 诗歌, 祈祷, 体系结构, and name giving. Stacy has also published in such volumes as, Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures (2006), Sephardism: Jewish Spanish History in the Modern Literary Imagination (2012), and the Forthcoming Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: A Critical History. Stacy began teaching at 菲律宾十大彩票平台 in 1999.

办公时间: 周二 & Wednesday 1:30 – 3:00 pm and by appointment.

B.A. UC Santa Cruz; M.A. Princeton University; Ph.D. candidate University of Pennsylvania.

I bring to my learning and teaching of 阿拉伯语 the filial love inherent to ibn al-lugha (child of the language), but also the appreciation of the difficulty of learning this language as a young adult. My father is Lebanese and my mother American, and I was born in Beirut. Technically, 阿拉伯语 was my first language. As a very young child in Beirut, the first syllables I uttered were in spoken 阿拉伯语, but after my family left Lebanon our home language switched entirely to English. 阿拉伯语 was a continued, spectral presence–the names of foods we often ate, a couple of less-than-polite expressions–but I lost all ability to communicate in 阿拉伯语. However I became drawn to the field of literature, and some 阿拉伯语 novels in translation that I read convinced me that I needed to commit myself to learning the language after graduation from UC Santa Cruz. That commitment took me first to night classes at a community college, and then to Beirut, beFore studying at Princeton University, the American University of Cairo, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Here at 菲律宾十大彩票平台 I teach courses in 阿拉伯语 language, both Formal and colloquial, and courses on 阿拉伯语 literature. I love teaching this language, and helping to guide a deeply committed and close-knit community of language learners to master something so seemingly distant from their experiences and life histories. The language learning path that I took inForms my teaching, and helps remind me (and the students), that this is something doable. Not only that, but the riches of both the 阿拉伯语 language and 阿拉伯 cultures are well worth the efFort.