About
I am the Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture with the Harvard Fine Arts Library. I am also a scholar of medieval Arabic popular literature. My dissertation (completed 2018) is entitled, “Wives, Witches, and Warriors: Women in Medieval Arabic Epic.” Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
MA, University of Pennsylvania, Arabic & Islamic Studies
BA, Hamilton College, English/Creative Writing Publications
Wives, Witches, and Warriors: Women in Arabic Popular Epic. Diss. University of Pennsylvania, 2018.
https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI10809311
“Reclaiming the Women of Arabic Popular Epics.”
ArabLit, 2 August 2018,
https://arablit.org/2018/08/02/reclaiming-the-women-of-arabic-popular-epics/.
“A Thousand and One Translations.”
Public Books, 4 August 2018,
https://www.publicbooks.org/a-thousand-and-one-translations/.
“A Guide to Online Visual Resources in Middle East, North Africa, and Islamic Studies.”
HAZINE Blog. 22 August 2019,
http://hazine.info/visual-sources-middle-east-north-africa-islamic-studies-online/.
“Harvard Fine Arts Library’s Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection” (video).
Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online.
https://bit.ly/WelchIntroVideo.
Projects
“Details, Delight, and Documentation: The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection” (digital exhibit).
Archnet. http://bit.ly/ArchnetWelch.
