Academic
Interest:
- Arabic Language and
Literature
- Autobiography
- Performance Studies
- Oral and Musical Traditions
of the Middle East
- Ethnographic Fieldwork
Methodologies
Selected
Publications:
- The Cambridge History
of Arabic Literature: the Post-Classical Period,
Section Editor (Part IV: Popular Prose) & Contributing Author
(pp. 245-69, 270-91, 307-18). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006.
- “Symbolic Narratives
of Self: Dreams in Medieval Arabic Autobiography.” In Defining
Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature, ed. Philip Kennedy.
Studies in Arabic Language and Literature, Harrassowitz Verlag,
Volume 7: 259-284, 2005.
- “La Música
Andalusí como Patrimonio Cultural Circum-Mediterráneo.”
In El patrimonio cultural, multiculturalidad y gestión de
la diversidad [Cultural Patrimony, Multiculturalism, and the Management
of Diversity], 128-141. Eds. Gunther Dietz and Gema Carrera. Sevilla:
Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico, 2005.
- Interpreting the
Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition. Dwight
F. Reynolds, editor and co-author. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University
of California Press, 2001.
- "Creating an Epic:
From Apprenticeship to Publication," in Textualization of
Oral Epics, ed. Lauri Honko. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Pp.247-262, 2000.
- "Music," in
Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, The Literature of Al-Andalus.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 60-82, 2000.
- "Musical 'Membrances
of Medieval Muslim Spain,'" in Charting Memory: Recalling
Medieval Spain, ed. Stacy Beckwith. New York: Garland, pp. 155-168,
2000.
- Heroic Poets, Poetic
Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Current
Research Projects:
- An Arabic edition and
English translation of a 54-hour version of the Arabic oral epic,
Sirat Bani Hilal, recorded in Egypt in 1987.
- A historical/ethnographic
study of Andalusian musical traditions of the Arab world.
- A multi-year team research
project exploring Arabic cultural production from 1400-1800 (the
so-called "Decadence").
- Cultural interaction
between the Middle East and South Asia.
Courses
Taught:
- RS 10E-F: Intermediate
Arabic
- RS 119A: Epics of the
World
- RS 148A-C: Advanced
Arabic
- CL 32: Literatures of
the Middle East
- RS 211: Orality, Literacy and the Study of Religion
- RS 289A-C: Arabic Literary Readings
Curriculum
Vitae:
http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/faculty/Dwight_Reynolds_CV.pdf
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