Narrative
My work explores the interaction of Arabic, Jewish and Romance cultures and texts in the medieval Mediterranean, with particular emphasis on medieval Iberia. I have also investigated Crypto-Jewish literature and identity in the Iberian World, and post-colonial Saharan traditions in contemporary Spain. My current work focuses on Spanish courtly texts written in Hebrew characters and carried to Italy by Sephardic Jews. Select publications include: Representing Others: The Go-Between in Medieval Iberian Literature (Palgrave 2007) and "Rereading the Widow" (Speculum 2007).
Specialties
- Cultural Contact in Medieval Iberia
- Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
- Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe
- The Medieval Mediterranean and its Legacy
- Sephardic Traditions
Educational Background
- 2001 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Hispanic Languages and Literature
- 1995 M.A. University of California, Davis, Spanish Language and Literature
- 1992 B.A. University of Texas, Austin, Spanish Language and Literature
Selected Publications
- Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature. 2007. Palgrave Macmillan for the New Middle Ages Series. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. ISBN 978-1-4039-7984-1
- 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
- "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.
- "Spain and the Jews: Hispanism and Sephardic Studies” forthcoming Journal for Medieval Iberian Studies 2009
- 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.
Selected Awards
- N. E. H. Seminar “The Medieval Mediterranean and the Emergence of the West” Barcelona, summer 2008
- Humanities Research Institute, UC system, Residential Fellow 2006
- N. E. H. Seminar “The Libro de buen amor in Cultural Context” U. Va. Summer 2003
- Gaspar de Portolá Catalonian Studies Grant, Barcelona 2002
- Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grant in Morocco, summer 1998
- Fulbright Research Fellowship to Israel 1992-1993
Sample of Courses Taught
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