Prof. Dr. Caroline Janssen

caroline.janssen@ugent.be

Department

Department of Languages and Cultures

Research group(s)

POWEZIE - Studie van de poëzie

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Publications

Most recent publications

Janssen, Caroline. “Marble Playing as an Expression of Traditional Kuwaiti Life.” The Secret Life of Marbles, no. 23/02/2024, 2024.
Janssen, Caroline. “Satan En de Demonen in Het Islamitisch Cultureel Erfgoed.” Satan : Een Geschiedenis van de Duivel, edited by Danny Praet, Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2024, pp. 217–54.
Janssen, Caroline. “The Novel ’Qadir’s Marbles’ : If Only All Children Could Play Marbles in a Pomegrenate Garden.” Www.Thesecretlifeofmarbles.Com, no. 06–07, 2024.
Janssen, Caroline. “Jennifer Miyuki Babcock, Ancient Egyptian Animal Fables : Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice (Brill, 2022).” AFRICA BOOK LINK, no. Spring, 2023.
Janssen, Caroline. “Thirteen Bones and a Skeleton : The Location of Inanna-Mansum’s Grave and Material Manifestations of the Cult of the Dead in Old Babylonian Sippar.” AKKADICA, vol. 143, no. 1, 2022, pp. 59–100.

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Teaching

My current teaching load includes Classical Arabic III ("the Case of the Animals" by the Ikhwân s-Safâ), Arabic Literary Texts I and II, and parts of Culture in Perspective: the Near East and the Islamic World (topic: Jesus and Mary in the Qur'an), Cultural History of the Orient (topics: the Ka'ba; the Translation movement) and Oriental Literatures: the Near East and the Islamic World(topic: pre-Islamic poetry).