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錢艾琳，浙江嘉興人，南方科技大學(xué)人文科學(xué)中心研究助理教授。
1996年至2003年就讀于北京大學(xué)外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院阿拉伯語(yǔ)系，獲學(xué)士和碩士學(xué)位。1998年至1999年受教育部公派至敘利亞大馬士革大學(xué)文學(xué)院進(jìn)修。2003年至2012年在美國(guó)賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)近東語(yǔ)言文明系學(xué)習(xí)，獲得阿拉伯古典文學(xué)博士學(xué)位。2018年5月起任南方科技大學(xué)人文科學(xué)中心研究助理教授。2018年秋季學(xué)期，她將教授“學(xué)術(shù)中文寫(xiě)作”和“走近《一千零一夜》”兩門(mén)課程。
錢艾琳博士曾學(xué)習(xí)過(guò)阿拉伯語(yǔ)、波斯語(yǔ)、土耳其語(yǔ)、希伯來(lái)語(yǔ)、法語(yǔ)、德語(yǔ)、古希臘語(yǔ)、拉丁語(yǔ)、梵語(yǔ)等十七門(mén)古代和現(xiàn)代外語(yǔ)。她的主要研究興趣是阿拉伯古典散文以及印度-伊朗文化對(duì)阿拉伯文化和中國(guó)文化的輻射作用。從2005年至2016年，她在北美中東學(xué)會(huì)年會(huì)、美國(guó)東方學(xué)會(huì)年會(huì)、芝加哥大學(xué)、北京大學(xué)、復(fù)旦大學(xué)發(fā)表口頭論文十六篇。她在《美國(guó)東方學(xué)會(huì)會(huì)刊》、《北大中東研究》等刊物上發(fā)表過(guò)論文和書(shū)評(píng)。2018年她翻譯的《哈馬扎尼瑪卡梅集》被列入商務(wù)印書(shū)館阿拉伯古籍翻譯系列第一批，即將出版。她的博士論文《論<哈馬扎尼瑪卡梅集>的散韻相間文體》，該書(shū)已被列入英國(guó)愛(ài)丁堡大學(xué)出版社“阿拉伯古典文學(xué)叢書(shū)”出版計(jì)劃。
Education
q?University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- PhD in Arabic-Islamic studies, 2003-2012
- Dissertation:?“The Maqāmahas Prosimetrum: A Comparative Investigation of Its Origin, Form and Function”
q?Peking University, Beijing, China.
- MA in Arabic-Islamic studies, 2003; thesis “Historical Reflections on the Making of Countries of the Fertile Crescent after the WWI”
- BA in Arabic language and literature, 2000; thesis “Witness of History and Footprint of Civilization: An Initial Analysis of Syria’s Role in Eastern and Western Cultural Histories”
q?Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.
- Exchange student, 1998-1999
Selected publicationS
- “Saj?and the Chinese Rhymed Prose,” in Beida zhongdong yanjiu?[Middle East Studies of PKU] (Beijing: shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe, 2016),?pp. 64-87.
- “Delights in Paradise: A Comparative Survey of Heavenly Food and Drink in the Quran,” in Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam, eds. S. Günther and T. Lawson, Brill Publishers (2016), pp. 251-270.
- Review of Emanations of Grace: Mystical Poems by ?ā?ishah al-Ba?ūnīyah (d. 923/1517), ed. and trans. by Th. Emil Homerin (Louisville, K.Y.: Fons Vitae, 2011), in Journal of American Oriental Society134:2 (2014), pp. 350-351.
- “Spice, Spiced Wine, and Pure Wine,” in Journal of American Oriental Society, 128:2 (2008), pp. 311-316.
Manuscripts in preparation
- Book: When Menippus Wrote in Arabic: The Emergence of the Maqāmah Genre in the Tenth Century(Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature, Series Editor(s): Wen-chin Ouyang, Julia Bray)
- Translation: Hamazhani makamei ji[The Rhymed Chinese Translation of al-Hamadhānī’s Maqāmāt] (Beijing: the Commercial Press, submitted in 2018).
PRESENTATIONS
- “Al-?aymarī the Misanthrope,” the 226thMeeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston (March 2016).
- “The Maqāmātand the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in the 4th/10th?century,” invited talk, the Center for Classical Studies and the Department of History, Peking University (November 2015).
- “Adaband adīb?in the Abbasid Dynasty,” invited talk, the Department of History, Fudan University (October 2013).
- “Al-Tanūkhī’s Sources: A Rereading of ‘The Daughter of the Qā?īof Ramla’,” the 223rd?Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Portland (March 2013).
- “The Virtues of Al-?aymarī,” the 46thAnnual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Denver (November 2012).
- “The Maqāmātand Ancient Greek Literature,” invited talk, the Center for Classical Studies, Peking University (June 2012).
- “To Begin with Tears: Framing Devices in qa?īdaand maqāma,” the 222nd?Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston (March 2012).
- “From the Stimulito the Purple-Flowering Pear: A Rereading of al-Hamadhānī’s Ma?īra,” the 220th?Meeting of the American Oriental Society, St. Louis (March 2010).
- “The ‘Doggerels’ of the Maqāmāt,” the 43rdAnnual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Boston (November 2009).
- “The Glass Floor and the Qur?ān 27: 44,” the 219thMeeting of the American Oriental Society, Albuquerque (March 2009).
- “The Maqāma of Poesieand the Talking Parrot,” the 42nd?Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC (November 2008).
- “Spice, Spiced Wine and Pure Wine,” the 218thMeeting of the American Oriental Society, Chicago (March 2008).
- “Saj?and the Chinese Rhymed Prose,”?the 41st?Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Montreal?(November 2007).
- “Abū?Bishr and the Arabic Poetics,”?the 22ndAnnual Middle East History and Theory Conference at the University of Chicago?(May 2007).
- “Who Travels in the Maqāmātof al-Hamadhānī?”?the 7th?Annual Graduate Humanities Forum at?the University of Pennsylvania (February?2007).
- “Dreams and Morals: A Study of Ma?rūf the Cobblerand the Governor of the Southern Tributary State,”?the 20th?Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference at the University of Chicago?(May 2005).
PROFESSIONAL Experience
q?Teaching Fellow at?the University of Pennsylvania?for:
- Introduction to the Islamic Intellectual Tradition?(Spring 2006)
- Arabic Literary Heritage (Fall 2005)
- Introduction to the Middle East (Spring 2005)
- Classical Islamic Law (Fall 2004)
q?Teaching Assistant at Peking University?for:
- Intensive Readings in Arabic, level III (Fall 2001)
q?Instructor at Soochow University?for:
- Writing As Communication (Fall 2013)
- New Concept English II (July-August, 2013)
q?Lecturer at Iowa State University?for:
- Arabic 101 (Oct. 2015)
- Arabic 201 (Oct. 2015)
q?Others
- Guest lecturer on the illustrations of the Maqāmāt for “Art of Islam,” Iowa State University (Nov. 9, 2015)
- Invited columnist on Islam for thepaper.cn (June 2015-).
- Translator and invited columnist on Arabic culture for arabic.china.org.cn (August 2014-)
- Subject consultant for Bourchier Ltd in making the Chinese translation of A History of the Arabian Peninsula(May 2014-April 2015).
- Referee for The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia(June 2013)
- Interpreter for the delegation of the?Writers’ Association of Syria during their ten days’ visit in Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai and Hangzhou (June 2001).
- Interpreter for?the 1stIntensive Workshop of?the Arab Officials of Economy and Commerce in Fragrant Hill hotel, Beijing?(May 2001).
Awards and honors
q?Graduate Student Award for Travel to the AOS Annual Meeting?(American Oriental Society, 2008, 2009, 2012)
q?Dissertation Completion Fellowship?(University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2010)
q?SAS Travel Subvention Request Fund?(University of Pennsylvania, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009)
q?William Penn Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2008)
q?Youda?Scholarship (Peking University, 2001-2002)
q?The 2nd?prize winner of the seniors’ group in the National Arabic-Chinese Translation Competition?(Chinese Teachers of Arabic Association, Dec. 1999)
q?Academic Excellence Prize?(Peking University, 1996-1997)
Languages
q?Advanced:
- Arabic, English
q?Basic:
- French, German, Persian,?Biblical Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Pahlavi, Modern Hebrew, Turkish, Ancient Greek, Ecclesiastical Latin, Akkadian, Sumerian, Ugaritic,?Russian, Sanskrit, Japanese