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Pamela Klasova is an Assistant Professor of Classical Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the Department of Near Eastern Studies within the Division of the Humanities. She has been teaching at UChicago since 2024 and holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University (2018). Her research bridges classical Arabic literature with historical and cultural analysis of early Islamic and medieval Arabic-speaking societies.
- Ph.D. in Arabic Literature, Georgetown University (2018)
- Teaching at University of Chicago since 2024
Her research focuses on:
- Public speech and empire-building in the early Islamic period
- Intersections between Arabic poetry and Late Antiquity
- Literary analysis of ḥadīth and biographical dictionaries
- Memory and identity in medieval Islamicate texts
- Concepts of wonder across Islamic literary, religious, and scientific traditions
Her current projects include a book titled The Eloquent Tyrant (under contract with University of California Press) analyzing the rhetoric of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf, and a poetry-focused study tracing the Islamic empire's rise through poets' lives and works.
Pamela welcomes students exploring diverse aspects of classical Arabic literature across all periods.
