Professor of Romance Languages
Research Interests:
Spanish and Latin American cinema, medieval media studies, early modern medicine, remediation of medieval culture in film and digital media, the rise of participatory movements from the middle ages to the present. Fictions of Well-Being: Sickly Readers and Vernacular Medical Writing in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain (University of Pennsylvania Press 2010), The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain (Cambridge UP 1996), The Mirror of Coitus: A Translation and Edition of the Fifteenth-Century Speculum al foderi (Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies 1990).