Research
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
