About
Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture
Sephardic Studies
Open Access Publishing Education
AB English Literature, Columbia University 1991
MA Spanish Language and Literature, Boston College 1997
Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley 2003 Work Shared in CORE
Books
Articles
Book chapters
- Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “Cómo Santa María ayudó a la emperatriz de Roma”
- Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome”
- Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566)
- Francisco Núñez Muley, Petition (Granada, 1566)
- Legend of the Damsel Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587)
- Leyenda de la donçella Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587)
- Omar Patón, Memorial de ida y venida hasta Makka (Castile, 15th c.)
- Omar Patón, Memoir of the Journey to and from Mecca (Castile, 15th c.)
- Anónimo, La danza general de la Muerte (s. XV) (Spanish version)
- Sefarad
- Anonymous, The Dance of Death (La danza general de la Muerte) (English version)
- Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [Spanish version]
- Mocedades de Rodrigo (ca. 1300) [English version]
- Pablo Tac, Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (Roma, ca. 1840)
- Pablo Tac, Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California (Rome, c. 1840)
- ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (Spanish version)
- ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (English version)
- Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (Spanish version)
- Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (English version)
- Sendebar (1253) Spanish version
- Sendebar (1253) English version
- Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (Spanish version)
- Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (English version)
- Conversos e identidad
- Conversos and Identity
- Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (1679) (English .doc)
- Juan Latino. “Del advenimiento de una era de paz” (De natali serenissimi) (1572) (Spanish .doc)
- Juan Latino, “On the Birth of Untroubled Times” (De natali serenissimi) (1572) (English .doc)
- Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor 2 (Spanish .doc)
- Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor 1 (Spanish .doc)
- Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor 2 (English .doc)
- Siete Infantes de Lara (Castile, ca. 1290) (Spanish .doc)
- Siete infantes de Lara (Castile, ca. 1280) (English .doc)
- Ramon Muntaner, Crònica (Valencia, ca. 1330) on the Catalan vengeance (1305-1307) (Spanish .doc)
- Ramon Muntaner, Crònica (Valencia, ca. 1330) on the Catalan vengeance (1305-1307)
- Alfonso X, General estoria (Castile, ca. 1280) section on Actaeon (Spanish .doc)
- Actaeon in Alfonso X’s General estoria (Castile ca. 1280)
- María de Zayas y Sotomayor, “La fuerza del amor” (Spanish .doc)
- Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor 2 (English .pdf)
- María de Zayas y Sotomayor, “Power of Love” [English .doc]
- Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor 1 (English .pdf)
- Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor 1 (ca. 1335) (English .docx)
- Don Juan Manuel, Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) (español .pdf)
- Don Juan Manuel, Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) (español .docx)
- Don Juan Manuel, Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) (English .pdf)
- Don Juan Manuel, Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) (English .docx)
- Cantar de Mio Cid [español .pdf]
- Cantar de Mio Cid [español .docx]
- Cantar de Mio Cid
- Cantar de Mio Cid
- Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (1679) [Spanish PDF]
- Whose Spain is it, anyway?
- An Interstitial History of Medieval Iberian Poetry
- Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew translations in the sixteenth century
- Is Spain’s Hebrew Literature ‘Spanish’?
- Between Secular and Sacred: Abraham ibn Ezra and the Song of Songs
Conference papers
Syllabi
Blog Posts
Book reviews
- Review of Memorial de ida i venida hasta Maka: la peregrinación de ʿOmar Paṭōn ed. by Pablo Roza Candás
- Review of Calderwood, Eric. Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
- Rev Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity
- Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull
- Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas by Emily Colbert Cairns
- Review of López-Morillas, Consuelo, ed. El Corán de Toledo. Oviedo: Trea, 2011.
- Review of Wacks, David A., Review of Decter, Jonathan. Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe. Indiana UP, 2007.
- Review of Maravillas, peregrinaciones y utopías: literatura de viajes en el mundo románico. Ed. Rafael Beltrán. Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, 2002.
- Review of Mocedades de Rodrigo. Ed. Leonardo Funes, with Felipe Tenenbaum. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis. 2004
- Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain
- Review of Young, Douglas C. Rogues and Genres: Generic Transformation in the Spanish Picaresque and Arabic Maqāma. Newark: Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004
- Review of Díaz-Mas, Paloma. Sephardim: The Jews from Spain. Ed. and trans. George K. Zucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Review of Ryan Szpiech ,Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic. (Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 328. $59.95. ISBN: 9780812244717.
- Review of Hook, David, ed. The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2015
- Review of Robinson, Cynthia. ‘Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.’
- Review of Tabea Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014. 230pp.
Other
Blog Posts
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Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome”
(Open Iberia/América,
2023-11-14)
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Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566)
(Open Iberia/América,
2023-11-14)
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Leyenda de la Doncella Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587)
(Open Iberia/América,
2022-01-24)
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Omar Patón, Memorial de ida y venida hasta Makka (Memoir of the journey to and from Mecca) (Castile, 15th c.)
(Open Iberia/América,
2021-12-06)
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Anónimo, La danza general de la Muerte (s. XV)
(Open Iberia/América,
2021-10-18)
Memberships
MLA
Medieval Academy
Asociación Española de Estudios Hebraicos y Judaicos
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship