Leyla Rouhi

Professor of Spanish

At Williams since 1993
lrouhi@williams.edu
27 Weston, x3485

[Areas of Expertise and Interest]:

Cultural and Intellectual Exchange between Islam and the West in the European Middle Ages
Cervantes
Relationship Between Medieval and Modern Literary Theory
Contemporary fiction in Farsi

[Courses Taught]:  (RLSP/COMP)

Elementary Spanish (RLSP 102)
Advanced Composition and Conversation (RLSP 105)
The Generation of 1898 (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)
Studies in Spanish Literature (RLSP 403)
The Nature of Narrative (COMP 111)
The Other Cervantes (COMP 308T)
The Cultures of Poetry (COMP 321)
Senior Seminar (COMP 402)

[Education]:

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."

[Recent Publications]:

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).
Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature, Greenwood Press: Three entries on medieval topics.
Numerous reviews on Persian, French, Spanish, and Arabic literature and culture.