Uri Shachar teaches in the Department of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where he is also a member in the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters. The current year he is spending at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton working toward his second monograph, provisionally entitled The Fountain of All Knowledge: A Mediterranean Epistemology of Vernacular French.
Michelle M. Hamilton is Director of Premodern Studies and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where she offers courses on religious studies, Jewish studies, and Spanish literature and culture. She is also the Editor of La corónica: A journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She has published widely on multi-confessional Iberia. Publications include: Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (16th Century to the Present) (Harvard 2021); The Study of al-Andalus: The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe (Harvard 2018); Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript (Brill 2014) and In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies (Vanderbilt 2014).
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Núria Silleras-Fernández is a Professor at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado-Boulder and affiliated faculty in the Humanities Program. 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 three scholarly monographs, Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna (Palgrave: 2008 and in Spanish CSIC: 2012); Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell UP: 2015), and The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell UP: 2024). She is currently working on two book projects; one relates to gender, marriage, sexuality, and emotions, and the other one to cultural capitals, exchange, polyglossia, patronage, translation, and gender.
Ariel Fein studies the medieval visual cultures of Byzantium and the Islamic world. Her research focuses on intercultural artistic connections across the frontier zones of the medieval Mediterranean, with a particular interest in the arts of Norman Sicily and the Arab-Christian communities of medieval Egypt and Ifriqiya.
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.
Sébastien Garnier was educated at INALCO and EHESS (Paris), with additional trainings taken in foreign institutions. Agrégé in Arabic (2008) and Ph.D. in History (2019), he published in 2022 his Histoires hafsides by Brill. Specialized in the study of medieval Western Islam, he is a co-founding member of LibMed, an academic community actively working on premodern Libya. His research has shifted to “memories as local competitors”. Besides, he is supervising the forthcoming catalogue of the manuscripts kept at the National Library of Libya. Since 2023, he has become editor-in-chief for Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, a position he now shares with Prof. Arianna d’Ottone.
Susan McDonough, this year the George William Cotrell Jr member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, is an Associate Professor of history at UMBC. A scholar of women, gender and sexuality in the medieval Mediterranean, Susan is currently at work on two projects: one is solo-authored monograph on sex workers, the other, a collaboration with Michelle Armstrong-Partida of Emory University, began with Mediterranean singlewomen and has grown to include single men, migration, shared cultures of sexuality, and gender identity. Her work has been supported by fellowships with the NEH and the Newberry Library.
The History/Social Sciences and Arts departments at Bryn Athyn College in partnership with Glencairn Museum are proud to host the Spring Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association for 2021.
The theme is “Darkness and Light.” This is a hybrid event, meaning a limited number of participants may attend in-person with others participating virtually via Microsoft Teams (a Zoom-like application). For safety reasons, the DVMA meeting will follow all applicable COVID protocols. The program features three speakers followed by a visit to Glencairn Museum, located across from the Bryn Athyn College campus.
Bryn Athyn College, Doering Center Room 119; 2915 Campus Drive, Bryn Athyn, PA 19009
The final meeting of 2017-2018 of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association
Saturday, April 21, 2018, 1:00 p.m.
Bryn Mawr College, College Hall 224
$15 for regular DVMA members, Student Members Free
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