David Wacks is Professor of Spanish in the School of Global Studies and Languages’ Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. He earned his PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley in 2003. In 2006 he was Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. He is author of Framing Iberia: Frametales and Maqamat in Medieval Spain, (Brill, 2007), winner of the 2009 La corónica award, Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production before and after 1492 (Indiana University Press, 2015), winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture, and Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World (University of Toronto Press, 2019). His current book project, People of the Book: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia, is under review at Oxford University Press. He blogs on his current research at http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu.
