April 8, 2005
Spanish Medievalist to Offer
Workshop
Dr.
Julian Weiss, a Spanish medievalist from King’s College London,
will give a workshop in Spanish Monday, April 18, in Room 213 Blanchard
at 4 pm
to discuss the literacy of women in early modern Spain, and then a lecture
titled “The Clerics and the Jews: Narratives of Tolerance and Persecution
in Thirteenth-Century Spain” Tuesday, April 19, at the University of
Massachusetts in Herter Hall 301 at 2:30 pm.
Weiss is currently reader in medieval and early modern Spanish studies
in the Spanish and Spanish-American studies department at King’s College
London. He previously held positions at the Universities of Liverpool (1984–1986),
Virginia (1986–1994), and Oregon (1994–2001). His teaching and
research focus upon the medieval and early modern periods, particularly the
history of literary theory and gender and cultural studies. In addition to
numerous articles on these topics, he is the author of The Poet's Art: Literary
Theory in Castile, c. 1400-60 (Oxford, 1990) and coeditor (with Michael Gerli)
of Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain (University of Arizona, 1998).
His current projects concern Renaissance literary and textual criticism
(an edition of Hernan Nuñez’s commentary on Juan de Mena’s
Laberinto de Fortuna) and the ideological formation of the intellectual in
the thirteenth century. In his lecture, Weiss will develop some ideas from
this project.
Refreshments will be served at the workshop. For those interested in
attending the workshop, the readings are available in the Spanish department.
Please contact Sue LaBarre (slabarre@mtholyoke.edu). |
