The research profile of the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies is diverse. Department faculty members’ research agendas delve into matters central to the field, covering a wide range of interests and specializations.

Arabic Linguistics

• Arabic corpus linguistics
• Arabic dialectology
• Arabic historical linguistics
• Arabic semantics and pragmatics
• Teaching Arabic as a foreign language

Arabic Literature

• Arabic music
• Classical and modern Arabic poetry in translation
• Classical Arabic literature and thought
• Modern Arabic literature
• Modern Arabic poetry
• Modernism in Arabic literature
• Postcolonial literature

Islamic Studies

• Contemporary readings of the Qur’an
• Ethics in Muslim traditions
• Hadith and Sunna both in their historical context and contemporary expression
• Islam and mass media
• Islamic jurisprudence
• Islamic philosophy and kalām
• Modern Islamic movements
• Muslim intellectual history
• Qur'anic studies and exegesis
• Sufism and classical Arabic Sufi texts

Translation Studies

• Arabic rhetoric
• Audiovisual translation
• Contrastive linguistics and translation
• Corpus-based translation studies
• Intercultural communication
• Localization
• Machine translation
• Terminology