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Academic Degrees: A.B., Mathematics and Philosophy, Harvard
University; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; A.M. and Ph.D. Religion
and Literature, Harvard University
Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature;
Medieval, Arabic, Latin and Hebrew Literatures; History of Religions;
Comparative Literature.
Major Publications:
Las Coplas de Yosef: Entre la Biblia y el Midrash en la poesía
judeoespañola. (with Laura Minervini). Madrid: Gredos, 2006.
Alfonso de la Torre's 'Visión Deleytable': Philosophical Rationalism
and the Religious Imagination in 15th Century Spain. Leiden:
Brill, 2001
Selected Recent Articles:
"Huellas hebraicas en la poesía del Marqués de Santillana." In
Encuentros and Desencuentros: Spanish Jewish Cultural Interactions.
Carlos Carrete Parrondo et al (eds). Tel Aviv: University Publishing
Projects, 2000. pp. 161-211.
"La maldición del can: la polémica antijudía en el Libro del
caballero Zifar." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool),
78.3 (2001): 275-295.
"Tassels or Skirts? Some Notes on a Lexicographic Gloss in the
General estoria." Romance Philology, 54 (2001): 331-350.
" 'Commo a cuerpo santo': el prólogo del Zifar y los furta
sacra hispano-latinos." Bulletin Hispanique, 102.2
(2001): 345-368.
" 'Your dove-eyes among your hairlocks': Language and Authority
in Fray Luis de León's Respuesta que desde su prisión da a
sus émulos." Renaissance Quarterly Studies, 54.4 (2001): 1197-1250.
"El canto del ave: música y éxtasis en la Cantiga de Santa
María 103." In Literatura y espiritualidad. María Pilar
Manero (ed). Barcelona, (2003) 35-59.
"El laberinto y sus reveses en Juan de Mena." Medioevo Romanzo.
2005 (forthcoming).
"How the Go-Between Cut Her Nose: Two Ibero-Medieval Translations
of a Kalilah wa-Dimnah Story." In Under the Influence.
Leyla Rouhi and Cynthia Robinson (eds). Leiden: Brill, 2004 (forthcoming).
Current Projects:
"The Hawk Is Not Worth Less": Jews and Judaism in Medieval
Castilian Literature. A book-length monograph on Jewish characters,
authors and influences in medieval Spanish literature through
the 15th century.
"Pio latrocinio": traslaciones de santos en la España medieval.
A study and anthology of medieval Hispano-Latin narratives on
the translation of saints and the theft of relics.
Courses Taught 2006-2007:
Literature 157. From Type to Self in the Middle Ages
Spanish 204. Love and Power in 14th-Century Castille: Juan Ruiz and Juan Manuel
Other
courses taught:
[Comparative
Literature 112. Religion and Literature in the Middle Ages]
[*Comparative Literature 210. Comparative Themes in the Literatures of Medieval Spain: Seminar]
[Comparative
Literature 211. Mysticism and Literature]
[Spanish 114. Medieval Spanish Poetry]
[Spanish 120. Medieval Spain in the Poem of the Cid]
[Spanish 201. History of the Spanish Language]
[Spanish 286r. Seminar: Autobiography in Pre-Modern Spain]
For more information, go to the Comparative
Literature course listings or the
Romance Languages and Literatures listings.
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