Dr Fabio Caiani

Dr Fabio Caiani

Senior Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 3673
Email
fc8@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 107
Location
Buchanan
Office hours
Tuesday 9-11

 

Teaching

I teach Arabic modules (both core language modules and Modern Arabic Literature & Culture modules) at Sub-Honours, Honours and Postgraduate levels. I coordinate the Advanced Arabic modules (4th year). 

I coordinate the Comparative Literature module 'Experiences of Exile' and contribute to the module 'Poetry and Poetics of Landscapes in 20th & 21st Centuries'. 

I devised the Honours module Fannanat: Arab Women's Creativity in Modern Arab Culture, which I teach and coordinate.

Research areas

My research focuses on modern Arabic fiction and it is based on a close-textual analysis of primary sources. My approach aims at filling a gap in the literary criticism of Arabic literature available in non-Arabic languages which too often seems to neglect the artistic element of Arabic fictional texts. I connect this technical analysis to the wider theoretical and cultural context.

In the past I focused on the experimental and innovative works of some of the most significant Arab writers (Yusuf Idris, Idwar al-Kharrat, Muhammad Barrada and Elyas Khoury).

More recently, in collaboration with Catherine Cobham, I have focused on the narrative works of Iraqi fiction writers such as 'Abd al-Malik Nuri, Fu'ad al-Takarli, Gha'ib Tu'ma Farman and Mahdi 'Isa al-Saqr.

In collaboration with Catherine Cobham, I am exploring the work of the Iraqi writer Muhammad Khudayyir within a Post-Colonial, trans-genreric and autobiographical framework.

I am also researching new trends in Arabic literature (with specific emphasis on Iraqi artists who live either in Iraq or in exile).

PhD supervision

  • Abdullah Alahmari
  • Maryam Bagheri
  • Tingting Zhong

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Caiani, F. & Cobham, C. M., 8 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World. 17, 1, p. 9-26 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Caiani, F. & Cobham, C. M., 6 Apr 2020, In: Middle Eastern Literatures. 22, 1, p. 1-22 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Caiani, F. & Cobham, C., 22 Jun 2020, Endless inspiration: one thousand and one nights in comparative perspectives. Elmaz, O. (ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, p. 61-92 32 p. (Gorgias handbooks; vol. 47).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Cobham, C. M. & Caiani, F., Aug 2013, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 264 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Open access
    Cobham, C. M. & Caiani, F., Sept 2018, In: Journal of Arabic Literature. 49, 3, p. 243-270

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Caiani, F. & Cobham, C. M., 2010, In: Middle Eastern Literatures. 13, 3, p. 231-259 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Caiani, F., 2007, London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 180 p. (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Cobham, C. M. & Caiani, F., 2008, In: Middle Eastern Literatures. 11, 3, p. 265 – 281 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Caiani, F., 2007, In: Middle Eastern Literatures. 10, 2, p. 137-155 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Caiani, F., 2004, In: Journal of Arabic Literature. 35, p. 45-70 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review