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David Arbesú is Professor of Spanish at the University of South Florida, serving as Head of the Spanish Section and Graduate Program Director for the MA in Spanish within the Department of World Languages. He has presented at over 70 national and international conferences on medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature. His research specializes in manuscript studies, codicology, and palaeography, with significant contributions to Golden Age textual scholarship and Florida colonial history. Arbesú has discovered key historical manuscripts including Pedro Menéndez de Avilés' conquest records and legal proceedings concerning colonial Florida, demonstrating interdisciplinary expertise in literary analysis and historical documentation. Recent publications (2018-2023) reveal sustained focus on critical editions of medieval Spanish texts like Sendebar and Libro de los gatos , alongside colonial Florida manuscripts. His work consistently bridges philological precision with historical context, producing authoritative editions that illuminate textual transmission and cultural frameworks of Iberian literature. Arbesú serves on the Editorial Board of Harvard UP’s Dumbarton Oaks’ Medieval Library Spanish Series and as Book Review Editor for La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures , maintaining active leadership in scholarly publication standards.

• Medieval Spanish Literature
• Renaissance Literature
• Manuscript Studies
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Dale Shuger is a Professor of Spanish & Portuguese in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University. His academic career includes roles as Visiting Assistant Professor (2012-2013), Assistant Professor (2013-2023), and Associate Professor (2018-2023) before his current position since 2023. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University (2008) and a B.A. from Harvard University (2001). Shuger’s research focuses on early modern Spanish literature, heterodox religions, and popular culture in Spain and colonial Latin America. His work bridges literary analysis with cultural history, exploring topics such as mysticism, the Inquisition, and symbolic practices in early modern texts. His publications include God Made Word: An Archaeology of Mystic Discourse in Early Modern Spain (2021) and articles on Cervantes, puppetry, and religious symbolism. His research has been supported by grants like the COR International Travel Fund and the Lurcy Award. Shuger has led Tulane’s Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014-2017) and currently serves on the School of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee. He advises Spanish majors and has supervised one thesis in the past five years.

• Early Modern Spanish Literature
• Heterodox Religions
• Popular Culture in Spain
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Lucia Binotti is a Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), with dual affiliations in the Department of Romance Studies and interdisciplinary Digital Humanities initiatives. She serves as Graduate Advisor for Hispanic Linguistics and Director of the Honors Study Abroad Program in Rome. Her work bridges traditional philology with cutting-edge digital scholarship, emphasizing immersive learning experiences through virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. Binotti holds a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara (1990), an MA (1985), and a BA (1984) in Romance Philology from the Università degli Studi di Pisa. Her research focuses on linguistic identity, cultural heritage preservation, and innovative educational platforms like Amirabilia—the world’s first experiential learning platform. Notable projects include nXimena (healthcare training for Latinx abuse survivors) and Entiendelo (a linguistic/cultural navigation app for Latinx communities). Her scholarly interests span Early Modern Spanish literature, digital humanities applications, and the intersection of technology with social justice. She has directed grants totaling over $500K for projects involving AR/VR integration in education, including collaborations with the UNC Health Science Library and NCSU’s DELTA initiative. Recent awards include the John K. Walsh Award (2010) and Digital Innovation Fellow status (2014). Grants & Leadership: CFE-Lenovo Technology Grants (2018–2019) for AR/VR expansion iLRN 2020 International Co-Chair XR Faculty Learning Community Leader (UNC) Teaching: Courses span from introductory Hispanic literature to advanced topics like medieval intellectual history and digital humanities methodologies. Binotti’s work emphasizes ‘place, presence, and perspective’ in Cyber-Humanities education, particularly addressing marginalized communities through technology-driven solutions.

• Digital Humanities
• Immersive Learning
• Hispanic Sociolinguistics
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Nizar F. Hermes serves as Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia, concurrently holding the position of Director of Graduate Studies. His office is located in 141 New Cabell Hall, with Spring 2025 office hours held Tuesdays from 12:00-3:00 PM. He maintains dual professional email contacts through the university system. His academic foundation includes: PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Toronto Dr. Hermes' research program centers on North African and Mediterranean literary traditions, with deep specialization in premodern Arabic-Islamic cultural production. His work investigates poetic representations of urban spaces, cross-cultural encounters between the Islamic world and Europe, and the transmission of literary heritage across the Mediterranean. Particular attention is given to Maghribī poetic imagination, elegiac traditions, and the intersection of literature with food history and refugee experiences. His methodological approach combines close textual analysis with historical contextualization to reveal continuities in Arab literary consciousness. Analysis of his recent publications (2014-2025) reveals three dominant scholarly trajectories: 1) The literary reconstruction of North African cities through poetic elegies, 2) Cross-cultural encounters documented in Arabic travel literature and folk poetry, and 3) The representation of European 'others' in medieval Arabic texts. His 2024 monograph 'Of Lost Cities' synthesizes these threads while his edited volume 'The City in Arabic Literature' (2018) establishes foundational frameworks for urban studies in Arabic literary criticism. No scientific awards or fellowships were documented in the source materials. While his role as Director of Graduate Studies indicates active mentorship responsibilities, specific student advisees and grant funding details were not provided in the available documentation. His scholarly output demonstrates sustained engagement with graduate education through publications on teaching methodologies for Arabic humanistic literature. No dedicated research laboratories or formal collaborative teams were referenced, though his co-edited volumes and multi-author publications suggest active participation in scholarly communities focused on Mediterranean studies and comparative literature.

• North African and Mediterranean Studies
• Premodern Arabic-Islamic Studies
• Comparative and World Literatures and Cultures
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D. Eric Holt is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of South Carolina, affiliated with the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and the College of Arts and Sciences. He has held academic appointments since 1994, including visiting roles at Georgetown University and lecturing positions in Ecuador and Spain. His expertise spans Hispanic linguistics, historical linguistics, second language acquisition, and phonological theory, with a focus on Optimality Theory and its applications to Spanish and Portuguese. Educated at Occidental College (BA), Georgetown University (MS, PhD), and with extensive summer programs in linguistics, Holt's research explores sound change, dialectology, and L2 pronunciation acquisition. He has supervised numerous graduate theses and dissertations, including notable works on connected speech perception and language contact phenomena. His teaching portfolio includes advanced courses on Spanish linguistics, phonetics, and historical language evolution. Holt has led international study programs in Spain, Costa Rica, and Ecuador, and contributes to academic service as an associate editor of Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics and through professional organizations like Phi Beta Kappa. Holt's grants include funding for research on L2 speech perception and技术创新 in pronunciation teaching. He has presented globally at conferences such as NWAV and LSA, and his work appears in top journals like Probus and Georgetown University Round Table . His current projects include books on Optimality Theory in Spanish linguistics and debunking language myths.

• Hispanic Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Second Language Acquisition
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Małgorzata K. Citko-DuPlantis is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Tennessee’s Department of World Languages and Cultures, within the College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, alongside M.A. and B.A. degrees from Polish institutions (Collegium Civitas and University of Warsaw). Her research interrogates the instability of premodern knowledge systems, focusing on the Man’yōshū’s evolving cultural significance across medieval and modern eras. She challenges the canonical fixation on a single manuscript of this foundational poetry collection, arguing its role as a malleable cultural construct. Her work spans interdisciplinary areas including digital humanities, medieval Japanese poetry reception, and contemporary pop-media depictions of premodern Japan. Citko-DuPlantis has authored/co-authored monographs and peer-reviewed articles in English, Polish, and Japanese, with notable works like Clashes of Dragons and Dragonflies (2012) and her forthcoming monograph Embracing Instability: Imagining “Man’yoshū” in Medieval and Modern Japan . She has been awarded grants from the Japan Foundation, Fulbright, and MEXT, and has presented at major conferences such as the Association for Asian Studies and MLA. Her research awards reflect sustained scholarly impact, complemented by multilingual competence in languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Citko-DuPlantis actively engages with both academic and public spheres, bridging historical textual analysis with modern cultural phenomena.

• Japanese Literature and Culture
• Premodern Cultural Studies
• Digital Humanities
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Jaime Rodriguez Matos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fresno, where he has been employed since 2018. His academic career includes prior roles as Lecturer at Fresno State (2016-2018) and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (2007-2016). Education: Ph.D., Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University M.Phil., Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University M.A., Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University B.A., Spanish Language and Literature, University of New Hampshire Rodriguez Matos specializes in Latin American poetry, nihilism, infrapolitics, and temporal theory. His work interrogates the intersections of philosophy and literary form, particularly focusing on the deconstruction of time in works by José Lezama Lima, Eduardo Lalo, and Álvaro García Linera. Current research explores neo-revolutionary rhetoric and anarchic political thought in Latin America. His published and forthcoming articles address themes such as Lacanian critiques of hegemony, the ontologies of the present, and the formless in Caribbean politics. Rodriguez Matos has presented at international conferences including the Latin American Studies Association and the University of California, Irvine Humanities Commons cluster. Selected Publications: Writing of the Formless: José Lezama Lima and the End of Time (Fordham University Press, 2017)

• Latin American Literature
• Comparative Literature
• Nihilism
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Samuel Sotillo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at North Carolina State University. He specializes in Spanish literature, second language teaching, and the integration of technology in education. He co-founded A Contracorriente Press in 2011 and leads the Spain: Language and Culture in Valencia summer program. His research spans Venezuelan literature, medieval Spanish texts, and the intersection of literature with digital technologies and politics. Education: B.S. in Information Security (East Carolina University), M.A. in Spanish Literature and Culture (NC State University). Research Interests: Sotillo’s work explores contemporary Venezuelan literature, the legacy of Jorge Luis Borges, and the application of IT tools in language education. He has published analyses of historical figures like Eric Hobsbawm and technical papers on network security protocols such as EAP and IPv6. Professional Roles: Former NCSU Faculty Senator, Director of the Valencia study abroad program, and contributor to academic presses and journals. His technical expertise includes cybersecurity, VoIP encryption, and open-source software frameworks like Zope. Recognition: While no specific awards are noted, his contributions to academic publishing (e.g., A Contracorriente Press) and pedagogical innovation highlight his impact in both humanities and technical fields.

• Second Language Teaching
• IT in Education
• Venezuelan Literature
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Joan Ramon Resina is a Professor at Stanford University in both the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and the Department of Comparative Literature. He serves as Director of the Iberian Studies Program under the Freeman Spogli Institute. Ph.D., University of Barcelona (1988) Ph.D., UC Berkeley (1986) Research interests include Catalan cultural studies, modernism, historical memory, philosophy of language, and urban modernity. His work interrogates the intersections of literature with political and cultural transformation. Recent publications focus on Iberian transnationalism, the Catalan independence movement, and Visconti’s cinematic philosophy. These works span interdisciplinary methodologies in cultural critique and historical analysis. Scientific awards include prestigious Alexander von Humboldt and Fulbright fellowships, reflecting his international scholarly recognition. Contact : jrresina@stanford.edu | Office: Pigott Hall, Bldg 260, Rm 224 | Office Hours: Tu/Th 12-1PM

• Catalan Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• Modernism
• New Ruralism
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Brian A. Catlos is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and Research Associate in Humanities at the University of California Santa Cruz. He serves as Director of the CU Mediterranean Studies Group and Co-Director of The Mediterranean Seminar, an international scholarly forum with over 1,900 members worldwide. His academic appointments span multiple disciplines including Religious Studies, History, Ethnic Studies, Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Jewish Studies. Dr. Catlos specializes in Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations, Medieval Mediterranean history, and ethno-religious minorities in pre-modern contexts. His research focuses on the complex dynamics of religious and ethnic identity in medieval Europe and the Islamic world, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. He explores how religious minorities navigated political power structures while maintaining cultural and religious identities under majority rule. His publications reveal a consistent focus on challenging simplistic narratives about religious conflict in medieval Mediterranean societies. Rather than portraying these societies as defined primarily by religious division, his work emphasizes the practical accommodations, economic interdependencies, and complex identities that characterized daily life across religious boundaries. His research demonstrates how religious identity often functioned alongside other social markers like language, profession, and regional affiliation. Catlos has received numerous prestigious awards including the Medieval Academy of America's Charles Homer Haskins Medal (2018), the Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Prize (2014), and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. His books have been translated into numerous languages including Spanish, German, Polish, Korean, Russian, and Chinese. 2024 Guggenheim Fellow Medieval Academy of America's Charles Homer Haskins Medal (2018) Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Prize (2014) American Historical Association's James A. Rawley Prize American Historical Association's Premio del Rey Boulder Faculty Association Award for Excellence in Research (2015) As an educator, Catlos mentors MA students interested in Mediterranean Studies and Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations, with recent students securing fully-funded PhD positions at Princeton, Brown, and Rochester. He has received multiple teaching and leadership awards from the Boulder Faculty Association. His current research includes 'An Age of Convergence: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean' and 'James the Conqueror: A Crusader King in an Age of Faith and Reason.'

• Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations
• Medieval Mediterranean history
• Ethno-religious minorities
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Michael J Ferreira is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in Hispanic Philology, Linguistics, and Luso-Brazilian Literature. His research focuses on lexicography, textual edition, and paleography, with a particular emphasis on historical Portuguese language materials. He co-directed the Corpus do português project, a monumental 45-million-word digital corpus spanning 700 years of Portuguese language history, funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant (2004-2006). Education: Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001) M.A. in Luso-Brazilian Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994) B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison His scholarship includes editing and transcribing Old Portuguese texts, directing the Dictionary of the Old Portuguese Language Project, and co-authoring 501 Portuguese Verbs . He teaches courses applying computational methods to philological analysis, offering workshops in Brazil and Portugal on paleography and digital text edition. Ferreira’s work bridges traditional philology with modern digital humanities, emphasizing accessibility and preservation of historical linguistic materials. Grants & Awards: National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access Grant (2004-2006) Professional Roles: Editor of the Portuguese Series at the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies Coordinator for the DC Area Celpe-Bras Exam His current projects include expanding the Corpus do português and advancing the Dictionary of the Old Portuguese Language. Ferreira collaborates internationally, training scholars in digital methodologies for textual analysis and preservation.

• Lexicography
• Textual Edition
• Paleography
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Fabio López Lázaro is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and Director of the Center for Research in World History. Born in Spain, he immigrated to Canada as a political exile’s child and earned his BA (1985) from the University of Western Ontario, MA (1989) from Simon Fraser University, and PhD (1996) from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on global and maritime history between 1300-1700, with specialties in piracy, medieval Mediterranean trade, and colonial Latin America. Notable works include *The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez* (2011), which reinterpreted a 17th-century ‘novel’ as an eyewitness account of pirate-empire entanglements. Teaching & Awards: He has taught at Stanford, Arizona State, Calgary, and Santa Clara Universities. Awards include the University of Calgary Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award (2000) and Santa Clara University’s Research Excellence Award (2011). Research Trends: Recent publications analyze transnational religious comparisons (2023), global theoretical frameworks (2021), and the role of piracy in shaping early modern political economies. His work bridges legal history, maritime studies, and cross-cultural exchanges. The Center for Research in World History, under his leadership, promotes interdisciplinary global history projects. Grants & Advising: While no grants are listed here, his advising focuses on graduate students exploring medieval maritime networks and colonial Latin American histories. He actively contributes to academic initiatives like the Bentley World History Funds and hosts the History Forum.

• Global History
• Transnational History
• Medieval Maritime History
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Alani Hicks-Bartlett is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She holds affiliations with the Department of Italian Studies, the Program in Early Cultures, the Program in Medieval Studies, the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Her research integrates gender, race, disability studies, and critical theory, focusing on Medieval and Early Modern literature across English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish traditions. She explores themes like artistic failure, disability representation, and (proto)feminist writing. Educated at Bryn Mawr College (BA, MA), Middlebury College (MA, DML), and UC Berkeley (PhD), her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, and others. Recent publications analyze race in Shakespeare, disability in Arthurian Romance, and exemplarity in Petrarchan intertexts. She teaches courses on Early Modern theater, medieval gender studies, and literary theory. Her current book project examines disability narratives in Petrarch, Montaigne, and Cervantes, linking bodily diversity to selfhood and political health. She has held fellowships at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies and the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

• Medieval and Early Modern Literature
• Gender Studies
• Disability Studies
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Matthew Joseph Pettway is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literature at the University of South Alabama. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies (2010) and M.A. (2001) from Michigan State University, and a B.A. (1999) from Eastern Michigan University in Business Spanish and Media Production. Education: Ph.D. in Hispanic Cultural Studies, Michigan State University (2010) M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Literatures, Michigan State University (2001) B.A. in Business Spanish and Media Production, Eastern Michigan University (1999) His research focuses on African-Cuban Studies , Afro-Caribbean Spirituality in Literature , and Critical Race Studies . He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals like PALARA , Zora Neale Hurston Forum , and Afro-Hispanic Review , with recent work on Afro-Brazilian kinship and Cuban ethnographic interviews. Key publications include studies on Juan Francisco Manzano's poetry, Afro-Cuban ritual poetics, and comparative analyses of Caribbean literature. His forthcoming work explores Third-Gender Identity in Medieval Portugal and Afro-Cuban spirituality in Latinx literatures. Scientific Awards: Langston Hughes Visiting Professorship Pettway has taught at multiple institutions including College of Charleston and University of Kansas, offering courses on racial politics, African-based spirituality, and advanced Spanish literature. His teaching spans from 2007 to present, including team-taught courses on Cuban culture.

• African-Cuban Studies
• Afro-Caribbean Spirituality in Literature
• Black Cuban Colonial Narrative and Poetry
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Noémie Ndiaye serves as Associate Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern English Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. Her research sits at the intersection of early modern literary studies, critical race studies, theater and performance studies, and comparative literature, with specific focus on racial, gender, and identity formation processes. She has taught at UChicago since 2019 after earning her PhD from Columbia University in 2017 (with prior studies at École Normale Supérieure, Paris). Her research interests revolve around theatrical representations of race across early modern Western Europe, particularly examining how performance culture transformed blackness into a racial category. She employs transnational, comparative, and transhistorical frameworks to analyze racialization through cosmetic, vocal, and kinetic techniques of impersonation. Additional research threads include visual culture, gender and sexuality studies, translation practices, and the intersections of race with capitalism and globalization in early modern contexts. Ndiaye's publications reveal consistent focus on racial triangulation and transnational performance networks , with recent work expanding beyond Blackness to examine representations of Muslim, Jewish, Indigenous, Romani, and Asian characters in European theater. Her scholarship demonstrates methodological innovation through contrapuntal theater history and visual culture analysis, often connecting early modern racial formations to contemporary structures of white supremacy. 2023 Bevington Award from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society 2023 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from The British Academy 2023 Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2024 PROSE Award for Art Exhibitions 2022-2023 William Nelson Prize for best article in Renaissance Quarterly Ndiaye actively collaborates with visual artists and theater makers through UChicago's Black Baroque programming and co-curated the 'Seeing Race Before Race' exhibition at the Newberry Library. Her teaching spans undergraduate courses on Black Shakespeare, representations of Islam in early modern England, and graduate seminars in Early Modern Critical Race Studies, emphasizing intersectional trans-inclusive feminism and transnational approaches.

• Renaissance Literature
• Critical Race Studies
• Performance Studies
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