David Wacks
Associate Professor of Spanish
Contact info:
Office: FR 102
Office Hour: http://bit.ly/H7kWtJ
Phone: 6-0950
wacks@uoregon.edu
Homepage: go to faculty profile and click link
MA Program: Spanish Period 1
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
[full CV] [book projects] [blog on medieval iberian and sephardic research and teaching]
Research and teaching interests:
My research focuses on the confluence of Romance, Hebrew, and Arabic literary cultures in Medieval Spain. My book, Framing Iberia: Maqamat and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain (Brill, 2007), is a study of the intersection of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism as reflected in story collections written in Castilian, Catalan, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic. My current project is Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature (1200-1550), bridging pre- and post-1492 literary practice.
Courses taught:
Spring 2012: SPAN 316 [syllabus]
Summer 2012: SPAN 316, SPAN 333 Intro to Narrative [draft syllabus] (both Session 1)
Fall 2012: SPAN 316, SPAN 407/507 Sephardic Literature (MA Period 1)
SPAN 150: Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World
SPAN 316: Survey of Peninsular Literature > 1800
SPAN 333: Introduction to Narrative
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 407/507 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, 2, 3, or 4)
SPAN 607: Classics of Medieval Castilian Literature (Period 1)
SPAN 607: Celestina en su salsa (Period 1)
RL 623: Culture, Canons, and Commodification
