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Forthcoming Book:
Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari: Songs of Love and Devotion. Preface by Michael Sells. Classics of Western Spirituality Series. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, forthcoming 2009.
Recent publications:
"Prophecies of Apocalypse in 16th-century Morisco Writings and the Wondrous Tale of Tamim al-Dari." Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 13:3 (2007), 566-601.
Reading the Mystical Signs in the Songs of Abū al-Hasan al-Shushtarī” in Muwashshaḥāt: Proceedings of the International Conference on Arabic and Hebrew Strophic Poetry and its Romance Parallels, School of Oriental & African Studies, London, 8-10 October 2004." London: RNR Books and School of Oriental and African Studies, Music Department, 2006 (23-35).
“The Mystical Language of Daily Life: Vernacular Sufi Poetry and the Songs of Abū al-Hasan al‑Shushtarī.” Exemplaria 17:1(2005): 1-32.
“That Still-flickering Light: Reading and Teaching the Women Poets of al-Andalus.” La Corónica, 32:1 (2003)79-87
Other Publications:
“Beastly Colloquies: On Plagiarism and Pluralism in Two Medieval Disputations Between Animals and Men” Comparative Literature Studies 39.3 (2002): 179-200.
“Anselm Turmeda: The Visionary Humanism of a Muslim Convert and Catalan Prophet” IN The Foreigner in the Middle Ages. Ed. Albrecht Classen, New York: Routledge, 2002 (172-191).
“Petrus Alfonsi” IN Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: Al-Andalus. Eds. María Rosa Menocal and Raymond Scheindlin. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2000. (282-291)
Research Interests:
- Cultural and literary relations between Muslims, Christians and Jews in medieval Spain
- Hispano-Arabic poetry
- Al-Andalus in the contemporary Arab political and cultural imagination
Honors and Awards:
2009 American Institute for Magreb Studies (AIMS) Research Grant (Morocco)
2006 CUA Provost's Award for Research and Scholarship
2000-2001 Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (Morocco)
2000 CASA III fellow (Center for Arabic Studies Abroad) at the American University in Cairo, Egypt
Sample Courses:
New grad course: Love in the Medieval Mediterranean: Theory and Practice (Spring 2010)
New undergrad course: Flamenco (Music, Poetry, Dance) in Spanish Culture (Spring 2010)
Sp. 320 Translation I (Fall 2009)
Sp. 609 Historia de la(s) lengua(s) española(s) (Fall 2009)
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