Daniel Beaumont

Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
Ph.D. (1991), Princeton
Specialties: Arabic Languages and Literature

431 Rush Rhees Library
Department of Religion and Classics
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

(585) 275-5224 (office)
(585) 275-5378 (Department office)
(585) 442-2749 (fax)
daniel.beaumont@rochester.edu
Dan Beaumont's personal webpage

Office Hours:

By appointment.

Dr. Beaumont's Personal Web Space:

For more information about his articles and to access his video works, please visit http://troi.cc.rochester.edu/~dano.

Recent Articles

• "The 'Lone Nut' Theory: Paranoia and Recognition in Contemporary American Fiction," in Recognition in Narrative, Film and Opera, ed. Philip F. Kennedy and Marilyn Lawrence (forthcming).
• Un Conte Dormir Debout: Voltaire's Fictions and The 1001 Nights," ed. Salma Jayyusi, Cambridge (forthcoming).
• Hardball: Political Violence and Ideology in Mamluk History," in Mamluk Studies Review, 2004
• "Literary Form and Narrative Technique in the Arabian Nights," in The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia, 2004.
• "So Much Truth: Joe Beard's Blues," Living Blues, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 28-36.

Video Documentary

• "So Much Truth; the Life & Music of Joe Beard, to air RCTV December 2004.

Selected Publications:

• Hardboiled: Narrative Discourse in Early Muslim Traditions, Studia Islamica, 83, 1996, pp. 5-31.

Book:

• Slave of Desire: Sex, Love and Death in The 1001 Nights. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (May 2002).

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