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Professor Girón-Negrón was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and has
been teaching at Harvard since he obtained his doctoral degree
in 1997. In his teaching and in his research, he seeks to elucidate
the interplay between the languages and literatures of medieval
Spain and to do so against the cultural backdrop of Iberian religious
history. The bulk of his efforts have been devoted in particular
to Spanish literary works from the Middle Ages through the 17th
century. As a literary historian, Girón-Negrón is primarily interested
in the formative impact of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations on
the premodern development of Ibero-Romance, Arabo-Andalusian and
Hispano-Jewish belles lettres. Within medieval and early
modern studies, his broader interests include mysticism and literature,
approaches to lyric, Romance and Semitic historical linguistics,
theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages, medieval
and Renaissance literary theory, comparative philology, religion
and literature, oral poetics and multilingual aesthetics.
He is the author of Visión Deleytable: Philosophical Rationalism
and the Religious Imagination in 15th Century Spain (Leiden:
Brill, 2001), Las Coplas de Yosef: Entre la Biblia y el Midrash
en la poesía judeoespañola (Madrid: Gredos, 2006-with Laura
Minervini) and about three dozen articles and reviews (see selected
bibliography below). His current projects include a book-length
monograph on the 16th century Comentario al libro de Job
by Fray Luis de León and a collection of essays on religion and
literature in medieval Iberia tentatively entitled El canto
del ave y otros estudios.
Prof. Girón-Negrón is currently the Director of Graduate Studies
in Spanish for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
He is also a Faculty Member in the Committee on the Study of Religion,
the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies
and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. In 2009-2010,
he will be co-directing with prof. Brad Epps the Hispanic Seminary
at the Barker Center for the Humanities and also conducting a
workshop with Prof. Bernard Septimus on the medieval Spanish translations
of the Hebrew Bible.
Academic Degrees: A.B., M.T.S., PhD Harvard University
Research Interests: Spanish Literature (Medieval
and Golden Age); Arabic and Hebrew Literatures (Middle Ages);
History of Religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle
Ages); Historical Linguistics; 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.
"Muerte, cates / que non cates": el "discor" 510 de fray Diego
de Valencia en el Cancionero de Baena." Revista de
Filología Española, 82 (2002): 249-272.
"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.
"En el corazón del Quijote: la cuestión de la épica en prosa"
(with Francisco Márquez-Villanueva), Spain's Multicultural
Legacies - Studies in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead. Adrienne
Martín y Cristina Martínez-Carazo (eds.). Delaware: Juan de la
Cuesta, 2008. pp. 96-120.
"Dionysian Thought in 16th Century Spanish Mystical Theology,"
Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite, eds. Sarah Coakley
and Charles Stang (Wiley-Blackwell 2009), 163-176.
"De al-Mu'tamid a Shem Tov: Fortune ibero-medieval d'une epigramme
arabe," Horizons Maghrébins (2009) Forthcoming.
Other courses:
Literature 157. From Type to Self in the Middle Ages
Comparative Literature 112. Religion and Literature in the Middle
Ages
Comparative
Literature 211. Mysticism and Literature
Comparative Literature 252. The Literatures of Medieval
Iberia: Approaches and Debates in their Comparative Study: Seminar
Span 110: Hispanic Literature: The Middle Ages
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 286r. Seminar: Autobiography in Pre-Modern Spain
Freshman Seminar 34j: Medieval and Early Modern Love Poetry
For more information, go to the Literature and Comparative
Literature course listings or the
Romance Languages and Literatures listings.
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