Jason Busic
is Assistant Professor of Spanish in Modern Languages at Denison University. He works on medieval and early modern Iberia with a focus on two religious minorities: the Mozarabs (Arabized Christians) and the Moriscos (New Christians of Muslim descent). He participates in conferences and has publications spanning these areas, including the “Between Latin Theology and Arabic Kalām: Samson’s Apologeticus contra perfidos and Ḥafṣ b. Albar al-Qūṭī’s Extant Works” (Medieval Encounters, 2019) and (“From Medieval to Early Modern, from Christian to Muslim: Difficult Boundaries in the Arabic Gospels and Paul’s Epistles of Biblioteca Nacional de España ms. 4971” (Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2018).
John Dagenais
is Professor of Medieval Iberian Literatures and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1981. His publications include The Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture: Glossing the Libro de buen amor (Princeton, 1994), a special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, co-edited with Margaret Greer, “Decolonizing the Middle Ages” (2000), and “Medieval Spanish Literature in the Twenty-First Century” for the Cambridge History of Spanish Literature, edited by David Gies (2004). He wrote the chapter on “The Crown of Aragon” for Europe: A Literary History, 1348–1418 (Oxford UP, 2016). He has also edited and translated Ramon Llull’s Doctrina pueril: A Primer for the Medieval World (Barcelona/London: Barcino/Tamesis, 2019.) He is currently at work on a book on Anselm Turmeda/ʿAbd Allāh al-Tarjumān and on research into Junípero Serra’s study and teaching in Mallorca prior to his missionary journey to the New World. His current digital humanities project is a real-time virtual reality reconstruction of the Romanesque cathedral and town of Santiago de Compostela as it was at the time of its dedication in April 1211. In 2011, he was awarded the Josep M. Batista i Roca Prize by the Institut de Projecció Exterior de la Cultura Catalana.
Emily C. Francomano
is Professor of Spanish Literature and Senior Scholar for the Digital Humanities at Georgetown University, where she also is a core faculty member of the Comparative Literature and Global Medieval Studies Programs. Her research on the history and theory of translation parallels her work as a translator of medieval Spanish texts into English for modern audiences. Recent publications
Marcelo E. Fuentes
is Assistant Professor of Spanish at New Jersey City University. His dissertation, “An Empire of Two Religions: Muslims as Allies, Enemies, and Subjects in the Literature of the Iberian Christian Kingdoms” examines the connections between the imperial ambitions of Peninsular Christian rulers and the ambivalent depictions of Muslims in texts from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. He has published on medieval and early modern expressions of imperialism, Islamophobia, and racism in Castilian epics and Portuguese chronicles.
Claire Gilbert
is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Saint Louis University. She trained in late medieval and early modern European history at UCLA and has since pursued work in the social history of translation and linguistics, with an emphasis on the western Mediterranean between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her publications include a book, In Good Faith: Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), and a variety of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters exploring translation and language politics in Europe and North Africa.
Michelle M. Hamilton
is the Director of Medieval Studies and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is author of two monographs, Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, (2015) and Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature (2007), as well as several articles on medieval literature and culture. She is also the co-editor/organizer of a volume of essays on Iberia and the Medieval Mediterranean (In and of the Mediterranean 2015). Her areas of specialty include the Arabic, Hebrew, and Romance literatures and cultures of medieval Iberia.
Roser Salicrú i Lluch
is Senior Researcher (Investigadora Científica) of Medieval Studies at the Department for Historical Sciences at the Milà i Fontanals Institution (IMF) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona. She holds a PhD
Anita J. Savo
is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Boston University and holds a PhD in Spanish from Yale University. Her research explores the topics of authorship, multilingualism, and language anxiety in the literatures of medieval Iberia. She is currently working on a book project about authorship and the rhetoric of authority in the works of Juan Manuel.
Noam Sienna
is a research associate of the Center for Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His work focuses on the Jewish communities of the Islamic world in the medieval and early modern periods, with particular interests in art history, material culture, interfaith relations, magic and demonology, and translation and Jewish languages. His current monograph in progress examines book culture among North African Jews in the early modern period.
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on cultural and intellectual history, gender, and literature in Medieval and early modern Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean. She is the author of two scholarly monographs, Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna (Palgrave, 2008 and in Spanish CSIC, 2012) and Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell UP: 2015). She has also coedited In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies (Hispanic Issues, Vanderbilt, 2015) and Teaching Gender Through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures (Sense Publishing, 2015). She is currently working on two book projects: one relates to gender, grief, politics, and emotions, and the other one to cultural exchange, polyglossia, patronage, and gender.