Research/Creative Work
Islamic Legends Concerning Alexander the Great. Introduction, Edition, English Translation, and Notes. Binghamton, NY: Global Publications of the State University of New York at Binghamton, 2001. ISBN 1-58684-132-7. 303 pages.
1. ‘03 refereed journal: "A Typological Approach to Aljamiado-Morisco Literature." Qurtuba: Estudios andalusíes. Pp. ?
2. ‘00 refereed journal: "A Study of Two Potential Sources for the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of Alexander the Great: the Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre." Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference Review 2001. pp. 21-35.
3. '01 refereed journal: "Arab Culture and Morisco Heritage in an Aljamiado Legend: 'Al-hadit del baño de Zaryeb.'" Romance Quarterly 48.1 (Winter 2001): 32-46.
4. '00 refereed journal: "La Leyenda de Alejandro en dos manuscritos guardados, respectivamente, en la Real Academia de la Historia y en la Biblioteca Nacional" (The Legend of Alexander in Two Manuscripts Held, Respectively, in the Real Academia de la Historia and the National Library of Madrid). Qurtuba: Estudios andalusíes 5 (2000): 291-294.
5. '96 refereed journal: "Royal Fame and Royal Honor in the Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre." La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature 25.1 (Fall 1996): 128-145.
6. Coming refereed. “The Versification of a Morisco Prose Text: from the Anonymous Aljamiado Prose Libro de las luces to the Castilian Poem Discurso de la luz by Mohamed Rabadán.” In The Journal for Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies.
Invited Essays & Conference Proceedings.
1. ’02 invited: “Translation and the Arat of Recreation: The legend of Alexander the Great from the Pseudo-Callisthenes to the Aljamiado-Morisco Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre” in Sensus de sensu: Estudios filológicos de traducción. Ed. Vicente López Folgado. Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba (2002). Pp. 243-263.
2. ’02 Proceedings: "El concepto de la tipología en la literatura aljamiado-morisca" (The Concept of Typology in Aljamiado-Morisco Literature). Actas del VIII Simposio Internacional de Mudejarismo: De mudéjares a moriscos: una conversión forzada, Teruel, 15-17 de septiembre de 1999. Pp. 875-884.
3. '01 invited: "Al otro lado de las marcas: la literatura en tierras cristianas (711-1029)," ("On the Other Side of the Front: Literature in Christian Lands (711-1029 A.D.") in a Supplement to the newspaper El Día de Córdoba, titled Omeyas: Cuando Córdoba era la capital del mundo. May 3, 2001: 56-58.
4. Coming proceedings. “La versificación de un texto aljamiado-morisco en prosa: del anónimo Libro de las luces al poema castellano Discurso de la luz de Mohamed Rabadán.” Actas del IX Simposio Internacional de Mudejarismo. Mudéjares y moriscos: Cambios sociales y culturales. Teruel, Spain: Centro de Estudios Mudéjares, 12-14 de septiembre de 2002.
Santa Barbara. “The Itinerary of Alexander through the Seven Climes of Antiquity according to the Aljamiado-Morisco Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre.” Santa Barbara, CA. Fifth Annual Middle East Studies Regional Conference. March 22, 2003.
“La versificación de un texto aljamiado-morisco en prosa: del anónimo Libro de las luces al poema castellano Discurso de la luz de Mohamed Rabadán.” Actas del IX Simposio Internacional de Mudejarismo. Mudéjares y moriscos: Cambios sociales y culturales. Teruel, Spain: Centro de Estudios Mudéjares, 12-14 de septiembre de 2002.
"Qissat Dhulqarnayn: an Andalusian Arabic Version of the Legend of Alexander the Great." Third Annual Middle East Studies Regional Conference. Center for Middle East Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara. Saturday, March 24, 2001. Received $250.00 for this presentation.
"A Study of Two Potential Sources for the Aljamiado-Morisco Legend of Alexander the Great: the Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre." Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference. Radford, VA October, 2000.
"La interpretación figurativa en la literatura aljamiado-morisca." VIII Simposio Internacional de Mudejarismo: De mudéjares a moriscos: una conversión forzada. Centro de Estudios Mudéjares, Teruel, Spain. Sept. 15-17, 1999.
"An Aljamiado-Morisco Tale of Rape and Marriage." Session on Medieval Spanish Literature. The Eighty First Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Inc. July 30-August 3, 1999 in Denver, Colorado.
"Morisco Heritage and Andalusian Culture in an Aljamiado Tale: "'El baño de Zaryeb'", Lexington, 52nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Spring 1999 .
"The Hero of the Hispano-Arabic Alexander Romance Qissat Dhulqarnayn: Between al-Askander and Dhulqarnayn," Kalamazoo, Michigan, 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Spring 1999.
"Morisco Religious Identity: Aljamiado Stories of the Prophets from the Judeo-Christian Tradition," University of Miami, Seventh Annual Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies "Identity," Winter Quarter 20-21 February, 1998.
“Typology in Hispano-Arabic Alexander Romances.” Paper presented at the 51st Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, April 16-18, 1998.
“Alexander the Great and Judgment Day”. Paper presented at The Apocalypse in Medieval Times (and in Modern Times), a joint conference sponsored by the Southwest Medieval Association and the Texas Medieval Association at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, October 4-6, 1996.
“¿Eran Alejandro Magno y sus hazañas una prefiguración para el Profeta Mahoma y la expansión del Islam?” Paper presented at the Coloquio VI: Jornadas Medievales, a conference organized by the Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico City, September 23-27, 1996.
“The Seven Climes of the Ancient World and the Narrative Structure of the Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre”. Paper presented at the session entitled Of Virgins and Kings: Myths and Maps in Medieval Literature held at the 6th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brasilian Literature, University of Texas at Austin, April 19-20, 1996.
“Aspectos occidentales y orientales del Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre”. A one hour presentation at a forum organized by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB, Santa Barbara, June 9, 1995.
"A Character Study of the Morisco Alexander the Great in the Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandre". Paper presented at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, session on Peninsular literature before 1700. Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 4-6, 1993.
"Mysticism and Magic in the Renaissance: A comparative study of the work of Giordano Bruno and San Juan de la Cruz". Paper presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, session on Golden Age poetry. Washington, Univ., St. Louis, October 14-16, 1993.
Book Reviews.
Requested by the publisher. Cantarino, Vicente. Civilización y cultura de España, 4/e. Prentice Hall.
A list of honors and awards.
Auburn University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures research award, Spring 2001.
Certificado de Honor y Mérito de Sigma Delta Pi (Honor and Merit Award from the National Spanish Honor Society), Fall 2000
Outstanding Professor for Fall 1999, recognition by Auburn Panhellenic Council.
Committee member of graduate thesis: Magda Doyle: Fall 00; Maggie Overbeay: Expected Spring 2003.