David A. Wacks

Academic Interests

Commons Groups

HC

MLA

Recent Commons Activity

started the topic Online talk on Sephardi Diasp… in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean
started the topic Summer Workshop: “Sephardic… in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean
deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa … in the group LLC Medieval Iberian
deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa … in the group CLCS Mediterranean
deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa … in the group CLCS Medieval

Commons Sites

HC

Open Iberia/América

About

Medieval Iberian Literature and Culture
Sephardic Studies
Open Access Publishing

Education

AB English Literature, Columbia University 1991

MA Spanish Language and Literature, Boston College 1997

Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley 2003

Blog Posts

Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome” (Open Iberia/América, 2023-11-14)
Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) (Open Iberia/América, 2023-11-14)
Leyenda de la Doncella Carcayçiyona (Aragón, ca. 1587) (Open Iberia/América, 2022-01-24)
Omar Patón, Memorial de ida y venida hasta Makka (Memoir of the journey to and from Mecca) (Castile, 15th c.) (Open Iberia/América, 2021-12-06)
Anónimo, La danza general de la Muerte (s. XV) (Open Iberia/América, 2021-10-18)

Publications

Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World (University of Toronto Press, 2019)

Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015).

Framing Iberia: Maqamat and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2007. [Paperback edition 2010]
- Winner of the 2009 La corónica International Book Award for the best monograph published on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- Reviewed by Ryan Szpiech in Medieval Review, 5 September 2008.
- Reviewed by Auroria Salvatierra Ossorio in Sefarad 68.1 (2008): 233-36.
- Reviewed by Jonathan Burgoyne in Speculum 83.4 (2008): 1052-53.

Projects

People of the Book: Retellings of the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia

Open Iberia/América: An online, open access collection of teaching units on primary texts from the Premodern Hispanic world

Participating member of Symbioses: General estoria

Upcoming Talks and Conferences

http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/agenda/

Memberships

MLA

Medieval Academy

Asociación Española de Estudios Hebraicos y Judaicos

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Prof Span

U of Oregon