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	Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-5275, USA Office (949) 824-9451 Fax (949) 824-2803 michellh@uci.edu

Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature in Medieval Iberia

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
	Medieval Iberian literature and culture
	Medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature from the Iberian Peninsula
	Manuscripts and the history of the book
	Aljamiado literature
	Medieval women's lyric
EDUCATION
September 2001	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY. Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literature.
May 1995	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS. Master of Arts.
May 1992	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN. Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS
1. 2000	"La poesía de Leonor de Carvajal y la tradición de los criptojudíos en Nueva España." Sefarad 60:1 (2000), 75-93.
2. 1998	"Celestina and the Daughters of Lilith," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 75:2 (1998), 153-172.
3. 1996	"Change and Tradition in a Sephardic romance" Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung (1996), 104-108.
4. 2002	"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
5. 2003	"'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
6. 2004	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.
7. 2006	"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
Forthcoming 2007	"Rereading the Widow: The pseudo-Ovidian De Vetula, the Endrina Episode of the Libro de buen amor and their possible Judeo-Iberian models" forthcoming Speculum January 2007
Forthcoming	Text and Context: A Judeo-Spanish Version of the ´Danza de la muerte'" Converso Voices. Eds. Amy Aaronson-Freedman and Gregory Kaplan. Brill.
Forthcoming	Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature. Contracted with Palgrave Macmillan. New Middle Ages Series. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler.
CONFERENCES
1. December 27-29, 2001	"Negotiating Cultural and Sexual Boundaries: The Medieval Go-between as the Outsiders‚ Insider" MLA, Program Arranged by the Division on Spanish Medieval Language and Literature. New Orleans.
2. April 27-29, 2001	"Poetry and Desire: Sexual and Cultural Temptation in the Hebrew Maqama Tradition." Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Poetry in Medieval Iberia. Berkeley, CA.
3. December 30, 2000	"Cultural Assimilation and Gender" in Minhat Yehuda, Sone ha-nashim (The Gift of Yehuda, Enemy of Women) MLA 2000, Washington DC.
4. April 14, 2000	"`Last Forever, Oh Evening': The Moroccan Wedding and the Sephardic Legacy" California Folklore Society 2000. Berkeley.
5. December 28, 1999	"Virgins and Bawds: Celestina as Divine Punishment" MLA 1999, Rereading Celestina session. Program Arranged by the Division on Spanish Medieval Language and Literature. Chicago.
6. September 22-26, 1999	"Un nuevo testimonio de la Danza de la muerte" Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval VIII Congreso Internacional, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander.
7. March 1999	"La mora and the Rhetoric of Reconquest" Boston College Romance Language Conference.
8. 1998	"The poetry of Leonor de Carvajal" MLA 1998, Special Session on Crypto-Jewish Literature, San Francisco.

Link:

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/spanishandportuguese/spanish/medievaliberia/index.html