Nadia Altschul

Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Medieval Spanish Literatures and Cultures


The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218

Telephone:410-516-8571
E-mail: altschul@jhu.edu

Dell House 501C

Nadia Altschul is currently engaged with relationships of culture and empire and with postcolonial approaches to medieval Spanish studies. She is the author of La literatura, elautor y la crítica textual (Madrid:Pliegos, 2005) and co-editor of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “The Middle Ages” Outside Europe (Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2009). She has published injournals such as La corónica, Neophilologus, Textual Cultures, History Compass, and Hispanic Issues Online. Her current bookproject Transatlantic Philology:Postcoloniality, Occidentalism, and the European National Epic, examinesthe role of colonialism in medieval Spanish disciplinary and intellectualhistory through the work of Venezuelan exile Andrés Bello.

Research interests and expertise:

Medieval Spanish disciplinary and intellectual history; Latin American medieval studies; postcolonial studies; philology and editorial theory; race and ethnicity in the middle ages; medieval Iberia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Iberian nationalism; temporality and ideology; digital humanities; Islamic Spain.

Nadia Altschul holds a Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.A. in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University, and a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Spanish and Latin American Literatures and in Medieval and Modern History of Art.

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