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Michelle M. Hamilton

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities

PH.D., University of California, Berkeley

Phone: (949) 824-9451
Fax: (949) 824-2803
Email: michellh@uci.edu

University of California
340A Humanities Hall
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature from the Iberian Peninsula, Confessional identities, Manuscripts and the history of the book, Aljamiado literature, Medieval women's lyric
   
URL www.humanities.uci.edu/spanishandportuguese/spanish/medievaliberia/index.html
   
Academic
Distinctions
SELECTED AWARDS:

Humanities Research Institute, UC system, Residential Fellow 2006
N. E. H. Seminar “The Libro de buen amor in Cultural Context” U. Va. Summer 2003
Gaspar de Portolá Catalonian Studies Grant 2002
Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCB 2000-2001
Mellon Research/Travel Grant Summer, UCB 2000
Regents Intern Fellowship, UCB 1995-1999
Middle Eastern Studies Dissertation Research Grant 1999
Fulbright Research Fellowship to Israel 1992-1993
   
Publications Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. New Middle Ages Series. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. 2007 ISBN 1-4039-7984-7
   
  Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature in Medieval Iberia. Co-edited with David Wacks and Sarah Portnoy. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004. ISBN 1-58871-038-6.
2004
   
  "Rereading the Widow: The pseudo-Ovidian De Vetula, the Endrina Episode of the Libro de buen amor and their possible Judeo-Iberian models" Speculum January 2007. 97-119
   
  "The Libro de buen amor: Work of Mudejarismo or Augustinian Autobiography?" eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies. 6 (2006) 19-33. ISSN 1540 5877 http://www.spanport.ucsb.edu/projects/ehumanista/volumes/volume_06/index.shtml
2006
   
  "'Words Sweeter than Honey': The Go-Between in Al-Saraqusti's 'Maqama 9´” Journal of Arabic Literature. A Special Issue in Memory of Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes. 34:1/2 (2003) 206-219
2003
   
  Joseph ben Samuel Sarfati's ´´Tratado de Melibea y Calisto:´ A Sephardic Jew's Reading of the Celestina in Light of the Medieval Judeo-Spanish Go-between Tradition." Sefarad. 62.2, 1-19
2002
   
  "La poesía de Leonor de Carvajal y la tradición de los criptojudíos en Nueva España." Sefarad 60:1 (2000), 75-93.
2000
   
  "Celestina and the Daughters of Lilith," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 75:2 (1998), 153-172.
1998
   
  "Change and Tradition in a Sephardic romance" Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung (1996), 104-108.
1996
   
  Text and Context: A Judeo-Spanish Version of the ´Danza de la muerte'" Converso Voices. Eds. Amy Aaronson-Freedman and Gregory Kaplan. Brill.
Forthcoming
   
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Last updated 12/03/2007