Romance Languages and Literatures

Tom is a visiting doctoral student in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, where he is supervised by Max Sternberg and Tim Chesters. He holds a BA in French and German and an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies, both also from Cambridge. For...

Adam Mahler is a doctoral candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, where he specializes in medieval and early modern Iberian literature as well as environmental and ethnorepresentative writing. His articles have appeared or...

• Regions: Europe, France
• Time Period: 18th century
• Themes: Cultural History; French Literature; History of the Book; Intellectual History; Political History; Social History

I retired in 2015 as Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and...

• Times: 16th to 17th centuries
• Regions: France, North America
• Theme: French Literature

Emily is a PhD candidate in French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She has experience teaching all levels of language and literature both at Harvard...

Research Interests: Fables, framed stories and wisdom literature in the Middle Ages. I am also interested in the history of Medieval Iberia in general and the history and theories of translation. I have also been studying the representation of non-human...

• Region: Iberia
• Time: 15th Century; 16th Century; 17th Century
• Theme: Iberian Literatures

Research Interests: Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature; Aljamiado and Morisco Literature; Religiosity and Cultural Hybridity in the Hispanic World...

• Region: Iberia; Latin America
• Time: 14th century; 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century
• Theme: Colonialism; History of Empire; History of Gender and Sexuality; History of Religion; History of the Book; Maritime Humanities; Luso...

Josiah Blackmore is Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.  He specializes in the literature and culture of medieval and early modern Portugal, with an emphasis on the...

• Region(s):Italy; Europe
• Time Period(s): 14th century; 15th century; 20th century
• Theme(s): Renaissance culture; intellectual history; modern and contemporary Italian novel; literature and politics