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Education
PhD, University of California - Santa Barbara
Publications
Books
A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages. Series: Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2011. 409 pages.
Islamic Legends Concerning Alexander the Great. Introduction, Edition, English Translation, and Notes. Binghamton, NY: Global Publications of the State University of New York at Binghamton, 2001. ISBN 1-58684-132-7. 303 pages.
Articles
2022 “Golfines and Tabardíes in Exemplo XX of El conde Lucanor: Don Juan Manuel’s View of 13th- and 14th- Century Castilian Monetary Policy.” La corónica. A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 51.1, 117-138.
2021 “Kingship, Wisdom, and Knowledge in the Arabic Alexander Romance”. Prophets, Viziers, and Philosophers: Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature (8th-11th centuries). Ed. Emily J. Cottrell. Eelde, Netherlands, Barkhuis Publishing. 65-82.
2020 “The Subversive Role of Irony in the Libro del cavallero Zifar.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 97.6 (2020): 579-594.
2018 “Apolonio’s Pecado: Kingship and Sin in the Libro de Apolonio.” Romance Quarterly 66.3: 119-123.
2017 “El morisco Mohamed Rabadán y su Discurso de la luz: cómo el humanismo se convirtió en instrumento de salvación del pueblo morisco.” eHumanista 36 (2017): 304-327.
2014 “Juan Andrés.” Christian Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Vol. 6. Western Europe (1500-1600). Ed. D. Thomas and J. Chesworth. Leiden: Brill Publishers. Pp. 79-84.
2014 “Juan Andrés’s Humanist Rhetoric in the Confusión o confutación de la secta mahomética y del Alcorán from 1515.” Revisiting Convivencia in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (ed. Connie Scarborough). Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2014. pp.377-390.
2012 “Deceptive Truth and Its Relationship to Irony in Six Exemplos from don Juan Manuel’s El Conde Lucanor” eHumanista 22 (2012): 516-536.
2012 “‘Umara’s Qissa al-Iskandar as a Model of the Arabic Alexander Romance.” In Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson, and Ian Netton (eds.) The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East. Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing and Groningen University Library. pp. 205-218.
2011 “The Alexander Romance in the Arabic Tradition.” A Companion to Alexander in the Middle Ages. Leiden, Brill. pp. 73-112.
2011 “The Alexander Tradition in Medieval Spain.” A Companion to Alexander in the Middle Ages. Leiden, Brill. pp. 231-254.
2011 "The Indian King Qaydar's Role in the Death of Dhulqarnayn in 'Umara's Alexander Romance." In Legendaria Medievalia en honor de Concepción Castillo Castillo. Córdoba: Ediciones el Almendro. Pp. 285-296.
2010 “The Goddess Nature’s Revenge and Human Nature in the Medieval Spanish Libro de Alexandre.” In Vendetta. Essays on Revenge. Ed. G. Summerfield. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing, 2010. 51-61.
2007 “Fray Antonio de Remesal’s Historia general de las Indias Occidentales y particular de la gobernación de Chiapa y Guatemala: Medieval Aspects of a Humanist History.” In Cien años de lealtad. En honor a Luis Leal. One Hundred Years of Loyalty. In Honor of Luis Leal. Ed. Sara Poot Herrera, Francisco A. Lomelí and María Herrera-Sobek. Mexico City: UNAM, 2007. 173-184.
2007 “The De Indiae Miraculis from the Pseudo-Callisthenes in Four Alexander Romances from Arabic Tradition.” In Regards occidentaux sur l’Inde. Actes du Colloque internationale des 1, 2, 3 mars 2007 à Amiens. Ed. Danielle Buschinger and Cécile Leblanc. Series: Médiévales 43. Amiens: Presses du “Centre d’Études Médiévales” Université de Picardie—Jules Verne, 2007. 187-193.
2007 “Alfonso X’s Translation of a Latin Alexander Romance in his General Estoria” In MIFLC Review 13 (2007): 81-94.
2006 “The Introductory Hadith in Qissat Dhulqarnayn and the Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre: A Study of the Relationship between the Introduction and the Main Narrative” in Etudes Médiévales 8:8 (2006): 95-101. Published by Presses du Centre d’Études Médiévales L'Université de Picardie - Jules Verne. Amiens. ISBN 2-901121-83-7.
2005 “Alexander’s Journey through the Seven Climes of Antiquity and the Structure of the Aljamiado-Morisco Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre. In Entre Oriente y Occidente: Ciudades y viajeros en la Edad Media. Ed. Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala and María Dolores Rodríguez Gómez. Granada: University of Granada, 2005. 285-306.
2003 “The Versification of a Morisco Prose Text: from the Anonymous Aljamiado Prose Libro de las luces to the Castilian Poem Discurso de la luz by Mohamed Rabadán.” In The Journal for Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies 1:2 (2003): 77-105.
2002 “Translation and the Art of Recreation: The Legend of Alexander the Great from the Pseudo-Callisthenes to the Aljamiado-Morisco Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre” in Sensus de sensu: Estudios filológicos de traducción. Ed. Vicente López Folgado. Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba (2002). Pp. 243-263.
2002 "El concepto de la tipología en la literatura aljamiado-morisca" (The Concept of Typology in Aljamiado-Morisco Literature). Actas del VIII Simposio Internacional de Mudejarismo: De mudéjares a moriscos: una conversión forzada, Teruel, 15-17 de septiembre de 1999. Pp. 875-884.
2001 "A Typological Approach to Aljamiado-Morisco Literature." Qurtuba: Estudios andalusíes 6 (2001): 187-212.
2001 "Arab Culture and Morisco Heritage in an Aljamiado Legend: 'Al-hadit del baño de Zaryeb.'" Romance Quarterly 48.1 (Winter 2001): 32-46.
2001 "Al otro lado de las marcas: la literatura en tierras cristianas (711-1029)," in a Supplement to the newspaper El Día de Córdoba, titled Omeyas: Cuando Córdoba era la capital del mundo. May 3, 2001: 56-58.
2000 "A Study of Two Potential Sources for the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of Alexander the Great: the Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre." MIFLC Review 2001. pp. 21-35.
2000 "La Leyenda de Alejandro en dos manuscritos guardados, respectivamente, en la Real Academia de la Historia y en la Biblioteca Nacional." Qurtuba: Estudios andalusíes 5 (2000): 291-294.
1996 "Royal Fame and Royal Honor in the Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre." La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature 25.1 (Fall 1996): 128-145.
Notes
“Recontamiento del rey Alisandre.” Memoria de los moriscos: Escritos y relatos de una diáspora cultural. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales de España, 2010. Catalogue for the exposition at the Biblioteca Nacional de España. 210-212, 335-336.
“Dhulqarnayn.” Encyclopedia of Islam. 6 vols. Ed. J.E. Campo. New York: Facts on File, 2009. pp.31-32.