wacks

Full Name
David Wacks
First Name
David
Last Name
Wacks
Affiliation
Faculty
Title
Professor of Spanish
Phone
541-346-4029
Office
105C Friendly Hall, 1233 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1233
Office Hours
On leave through Spring 2025
Departments
Medieval Studies
Romance Languages
School of Global Studies and Languages
Affiliated Departments
European Studies
Judaic Studies Program
Teaching Level
Doctoral
Masters
Undergraduate
Interests
Medieval Iberian literature and culture, Sephardic studies, Mediterranean Studies
Profile Section
Education

A.B. English Literature 1991, Columbia University
M.A. Spanish Literature and Language 1997, Boston College
Ph.D. Hispanic Literatures and Languages 2003, University of California at Berkeley

Websites

http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu

Research and teaching interests
Courses taught

Fall 2014: SPAN 341 Hispanic Culture through Literature I, SPAN 407/507 Spanish Islamic Literature

Winter 2014: JUDST 212, Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History

SPAN 150: Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World
SPAN 316: Survey of Peninsular Literature > 1800
SPAN 333: Introduction to Narrative
SPAN 399: Languages of Iberia (August 2020 in Oviedo, Spain)
SPAN 407: Wine, Women, and Song: Medieval Iberian Poetry

SPAN 407: Women Writers of Medieval Spain 
SPAN 407: Love
SPAN 407: Spain and Islam
SPAN 407: Medieval Romance (Caballero Zifar, Tirante el Blanco, Amadís de Gaula)
SPAN 407/507 Kabbalah (Period 1)
SPAN 407/507: Story Collections from Medieval Spain (Period 1)
SPAN 407/507: Medieval Sephardic Literature (Period 1)
SPAN 407/507: Sephardic Culture (Period 1)
SPAN 607: Classics of Medieval Castilian Literature (Period 1)
SPAN 607: Celestina en su salsa (Period 1)
RL 623: Culture, Canons, and Commodification

Publications

 

Medieval Iberian Crusade Fiction and the Mediterranean World (University of Toronto Press: 2019).

The Study of al-Andalus: The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe (co-edited with Michelle M. Hamilton) (Cambridge: ILEX Foundation; Harvard University Press, 2018)

Double Diaspora: Sephardic Cultural Production Before and After 1492. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.

Framing Iberia: Maqamat and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2007. [Paperback edition 2010]

Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature in Medieval Iberia. (co-edited with Michelle M. Hamilton and Sarah J. Portnoy) (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2004).

See a complete list of publications here

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