Professor of Spanish

• Cultural and Intellectual Exchange between Islam and the West in the European Middle Ages
• Cervantes
• Relationship Between Medieval and Modern Literary Theory
• Contemporary Arabic and Persian Fiction
  

• Elementary Spanish (RLSP 101-102)
  
• Advanced Composition and Conversation (RLSP 105)
• Spain's fin de siglo and the Crisis of Ideas (RLSP 202)
• Intro to Spanish Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Golden Age (RLSP 211)
• Love in the Spanish Golden Age (RLSP 217)
• Cervantes' Don Quijote (RLSP 301)
• Cervantes' Don Quijote in Translation (RSLP 303-ENGL 308-COMP 303)
  
• Studies in Spanish Literature (RLSP 403): Three Medieval Masterpieces
  
• The Nature of Narrative (COMP 111)
• The Other Cervantes (COMP 308T)
• The Cultures of Poetry (COMP 321)
• Senior Seminar (COMP 402): The Ordeal of Freedom; The Cultures of Poetry
  

• B.A., Oxford University, 1987
  
• M.A., Harvard University, 1988
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1995 "A Comparative Typology of the Medieval Go-Between in Light of the Near-Eastern, Western- European, and Spanish Cases."

• Under the Influence: Questioning the Comparative in Medieval Castile , co-edited with Cynthia Robinson, (Brill, 2004).
  
• "The representation of gender in pre-modern Persian and Arabic literature," Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Islam, Brill (forthcoming).
• Mediation And Love: A Study of the Medieval Go-Between in Key Romance and Near-Eastern Texts. (Leiden, 1999)
• "A Definition of Medieval Woman's Work." Celestinesca, 22 (ii) 1998.
• "Trotaconventos and the Dynamics of Dialectical Reasoning." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1, 1999.
• "From Nevski Prospect to Zoia's Apartment: Trials of a Russian Procuress." (Co-author) Russian Review 58, 3 (1999).
• "Reading Cervantes in a Time of War," in In the Light of Medieval Spain, ed Coleman and Doubleday (Palgrave, 2008).
• "A Handsome Boy Among those Barbarous Turks: Cervantes and the Art and Science of Desire,"  in Islamicate Sexualities, ed. Najmabadi and Babayan (Harvard, 2008).
• Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature, Greenwood Press: Three entries on medieval topics.
• Numerous reviews on Persian, French, Spanish, and Arabic literature and culture.