Home > People > Faculty > Luis Girón Negrón

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature (Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish)

Office: Dana Palmer House 104 and Boylston Hall G-23 Phone: 617-495-2567 Office hours fall 2008: to be announced. Email: giron@fas.harvard.edu

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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

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Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Medieval, Arabic, Latin and Hebrew Literatures; History of Religions; Comparative Literature.

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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

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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 28 (2004): 129-166.

"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, 2005, pp. 231-259.

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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.

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Courses Taught 2008-2009:

Spanish 110. Hispanic Literature: The Middle Ages (fall)

Literature 157 (formerly Comparative Literature 111). From Type to Self in the Middle Ages (fall)

Comparative Literature 211. Mysticism and Literature: Seminar (spring)

Other courses taught:

[ Spanish 120. Medieval Spain in the Poem of the Cid ]

[ Spanish 201. History of the Spanish Language ]

[ Spanish 204. Love and Power in 14th-Century Castille: Juan Ruiz and Juan Manuel ]

[Spanish 220. Jews and Judaism in Medieval Spanish]

Comparative Literature 210. Comparative Themes in the Literatures of Medieval Spain: Seminar

For more information, go to the Romance Languages and Literatures course listings or the Comparative Literature listings.

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Last updated on July 8, 2008