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Associate Professor
Spanish and Portuguese

Research interests:

  • Cultural Contact in Medieval Iberia
  • Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
  • Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe
  • The Medieval Mediterranean and its Legacy
  • Sephardic Traditions



Selected Publications:

 “Hispanism and Sephardic Studies” Journal for Medieval Iberian Studies 2 (2009): forthcoming

The Musical Book: Judeo-Andalusi Hermeneutics in the Libro de buen amor ” forthcoming spring 09 La corónica

Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature. 2007. Palgrave Macmillan for the New Middle Ages Series. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. ISBN 978-1-4039-7984-1

“Rereading the Widow: The Pseudo-Ovidian De Vetula, the Endrina Episode of the Libro de buen amor and Their Possible Judeo-Iberian Models,” Speculum 82.1 (2007): 97-119.

Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature in Medieval Iberia. Co-edited with David Wacks and Sarah Portnoy. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004. ISBN 1-58871-038-6.“

La poesía de Leonor de Carvajal y la tradición de los criptojudíos en Nueva España.” Sefarad 60:1 (2000), 75-93. 

 “Text and Context: A Judeo-Spanish Version of the ‘Danza de la muerte’” Converso Voices. Eds. Amy Aaronson-Freedman and Gregory Kaplan. Leiden: Brill. Forthcoming 2009.

Courses:

Hebrew Poetry and Maqamat of Medieval Iberia
The Other Middle Ages: Medieval Iberia
Literature of the Religious Minorities of Medieval Iberia
Al-Andalus: The Example of Medieval Islamic Spain
Medieval Iberia: España de las tres culturas (Tricultural Spain)
Conquest & Trauma in Iberian Literature and Culture