CURRICULUM VITAE

 

                                                                            ROSS BRANN

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1981                        Ph.D., New York University, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures

                                                "Structure and Meaning in the Secular Poetry of Moshe ibn cEzra"

1977                        M.A., New York University, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures

1975                        Summer Fellow, Center for Arabic Study Abroad, American University in Cairo

1971                        B.A., University of California at Berkeley, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures

1969                        Hebrew University, Jerusalem: University of California Education Abroad                                 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

                               

1989-93;1996-                Chair, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University

1998-                       Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, Cornell University

1998-99                   Maurice Amado Foundation Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Center for                                                                              Advanced Judaic Studies

1995-98                   Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University

1995-96                            Acting Director, Religious Studies Program, and H. S. Krusen Professor of World

Religions, Cornell University

1989-95                   Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies (with tenure), Cornell University

1989                        Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, SUNY Binghamton

1986-89                   Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University

1986                        Adjunct Instructor in Medieval Hebrew Literature, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

1982-86                   Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures,

                                                New York University (positive third year review, 1985)

1975-81                   Instructor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures,

                                                New York University

 

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

 

Chair, “Exchange and Interchange in Jewish and Islamic Studies,” AAR Annual Meeting, Nashville 11/00

Reader, National Humanities Center 1999-2000 Fellowship competition

Editorial Board, Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue

(E.J. Brill) [1998-     ]

Annual Conference Section Leader: Medieval Jewish Literature; Association for Jewish Studies [1995-97]

Panelist & Evaluator, National Security Education Program (NSEP) [1994-95]

Conference Organizer and Chair, Languages of Power in Islamic Spain, Cornell University [Fall 1994]

Book Review Editor and Editorial Board Member, Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue (Brill) [1993-98]

Governing Council, Center for Arabic Study Abroad [CASA], 1993

Editorial Committee, Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the

Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University [1992-   ]

Conference Organizer and Co-Chair, The Three Cultures of Medieval Spain, Cornell University [1991]

Consultant, Dictionary of Global Culture, ed. Henry L. Gates and K.A. Appiah (New York: Knopf, 1997)

Research Consultant, Biblical Poetry through Medieval Eyes: Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Writings

on Biblical Poetry and Poetics by Adele Berlin (Indiana University Press, 1991)

Editorial Consultant, The Siege by Conor Cruise O'Brien (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986)

External Examiner in Arabic, Rochester Institute of Technology (1987-1993)

Faculty, 92nd Street YM/YWHA Humanities and Jewish Omnibus (1980-86)

Reader for University Presses: University of Pennsylvania Press; University of California Press; Princeton

University Press; University of Alabama Press; State University of New York Press;

Oxford University Press  

Referee for Professional Journals: The Comparatist: Journal of the Southern Comparative                 Literature Association; Association for Jewish Studies Review; Hebrew Union College Annual; Jewish Quarterly Review; Hebrew Studies

Referee of Grant Applications: National Endowment for the Humanities; Lucius N. Littauer                 Foundation; National Foundation for Jewish Culture; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial                Foundation

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

 

                American Academy for Jewish Research

                American Academy of Religion

                American Comparative Literature Association

                American Oriental Society

                Association for Jewish Studies

                Medieval Academy of America

                Middle East Studies Association

                Middle East Medievalists

                Modern Language Association

                Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies

                Society for the Medieval Mediterranean

                World Union of Jewish Studies

 

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH

 

Books

 

 

Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain

 (submitted for publication; under contract with Princeton University Press)

 

The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Baltimore: The Johns

Hopkins University Press, 1991) 228 pp.

(recipient of the 1992 Maurice Amado Foundation National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Studies)

 

Languages of Power in Islamic Spain (ed.) [Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern

Studies & the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University, #3] (Bethesda, Md: Capitol Decisions Limited Press, 1997) 221 pp.                                                                                                                                                  

A Witness Forever: Ancient Israel's Perception of Literature and the Resultant Hebrew Bible by Isaac

Rabinowitz; co-edited and with after-words by Ross Brann and David I. Owen [Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies & the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University] (Bethesda, Md: Capitol Decisions Limited Press, 1993) 148 pp.

 

co-editor with Adam Sutcliffe, Dialogues with the Past and Present: Jewish Cultural Formation from the

Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (in progress; to be submitted to Yale University Press)

 

 

Articles and Contributions to Books

 

 “Andalusi Moorings,” to appear in Disapora 9 (2000)

 

“Writing Religion at Cornell (Reflections of a Penitent Professor),” Local Knowledges,Local

Practices: Cultures of Writing at Cornell, ed. Jonathan Monroe (forthcoming, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press)

 

“Reflexiones sobre el arabe y la identidad literaria de los judios de al-Andalus,” in Judios en tierras de

Islam: Intellectuales musulmanes y judios en contacto, al-Andalus y el                 maghreb, ed. M. Fierro                 (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, forthcoming)

 

"The Arabized Jews," in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: al-Andalus, ed. M.R. Menocal,

R.P. Scheindlin, and M. Sells (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000),

 

"Judah ha-Levi," in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: al-Andalus, ed. M.R. Menocal, R.P.

Scheindlin, and M. Sells (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000),

 

"The Fire of Love Poetry Has Kissed Me, How Can I Resist? The Medieval Hebrew Lyric in Perspective,"

in Medieval Lyric: Genres in Historical Context, ed. William D. Paden (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), 317-333.

 

“Imagenes de judios en la literatura hispano-arabe," in La sociedad medieval a traves de la literatura

hispanojudia, ed. R. Izquierdo Benito and A. Saenz-Badillos (Cuenca: Ediciones de la

Universidad de Castillia-La Mancha, 1998), 71-100.

 

 (with Angel Saenz-Badillos and Judit Targarona) "The Poetic Universe of Samuel ibn Sasson, Hebrew

Poet of Fourteenth-Century Castile," Prooftexts 16 [1996]: 75-103.

               

 (with Angel Saenz-Badillos and Judit Targarona)  "Shemu'el ibn Sason y Su Poesia Hebrea en la Castilla

del Siglo XIV," La coronica 24 (1996): 56-74

[recipient of the 1996 John K. Walsh Award, MLA Division on Medieval Spanish Language and Literature]

 

"Textualizing Ambivalence in Islamic Spain," in Languages of Power in Islamic Spain, ed. R. Brann

[Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies & Program                 of Jewish Studies, Cornell University, #3] (Potomac, Md: Capitol Decisions Limited Press, 1997), 107-135.

 

"Arabic Representations of Samuel the Nagid," in Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical and Judaic Studies in

Honor of Baruch A.Levine, ed. R. Chazan, B. Hallo, & L. Schiffman (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999): 443-465.

 

“Shemu'el ha-Nagid,” The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, eds. R.J.Z. Werblowsky and G.

Wigoder (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 633.

 

"'How Can My Heart Be in the East?' Intertextual Irony in Judah ha-Levi," to appear in William Brinner

Festschrift, ed. F. Astren, B. Hary and J. Hayes (forthcoming)

 

"Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Judah al-Harizi's Tahkemoni," to appear

in The Jews of Islamic Lands, ed. Jacob Lassner (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, forthcoming)

 

"Constructions of Exile in Hispano-Hebrew and Hispano-Arabic Elegies" [Hebrew], in Israel Levin Jubilee

Volume, ed. T. Rosen and R. Tsur (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1994), 45-61.

 

"Abulafia, Todros ben Judah ha-Levi"; Ibn Ezra, Abraham"; "Ibn Ezra, Moses"; Joseph ben Meir ibn

Zabara"; "Judah ha-Levi," to appear in the Encyclopedia of Medieval Iberia, ed. E. M. Gerli (New

York: Garland Publishing, forthcoming)

 

"Hebrew Prosody and Poetics [Medieval]," The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. A.

Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), 511-513.

 

"Ambivalence toward Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain," in Mozarabs, Moriscos and Jews, ed. Hanna

Kassis (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1993), 121-138.

 

"Reflections on the Literary Culture of the Jews of Spain," Proceedings of the 1992 Hornstein Institute for

Distinguished Leaders Brandeis University (1993), 13-26.

 

"Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Judah al-Harizi's Tahkemoni," Princeton

Papers in Near Eastern Studies 1 (1992): 1-22.

 

"Edition and Translation of T-S K 1. 18,30," apud L. H. Schiffman and M. D. Swartz, Hebrew and

Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah: Selected Texts from Taylor-Schechter Box K1  [Semitic Texts and Studies 1] (Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1992), 69-75.

 

"Of Revelry, Rhetoric, and Rabbis," Association for Jewish Studies Review 15 (1990): 119-132.

 

"The Hebrew Bible and Andalusian Hebrew Poetry: Cultural Nationalism or Cultural Ambiguity?,

Approaches to Judaism in Medieval Times 3, ed. D.R. Blumenthal (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988), 101-131.

 

"Judah Halevi: The Compunctious Poet," Prooftexts: A Journal for Jewish Literary History 7 (1987): 123-

143.

 

"The 'Dissembling Poet' in Medieval Hebrew Literature: The Dimensions of a Literary Topos," Journal of

the American Oriental Society 107 (1987): 39-54.

 

"The Functions of Rhetoric in a Medieval Hebrew Poem," in Aharon Mirsky Jubilee Volume, ed. Z.

Malachi (Lod: The Habermann Institute for Literary Research, 1986), 429-448.

 

"The Experience of Judaism under the Orbit of Medieval Islam," New York University Hagop                 Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies Occasional Papers (Number 3, 1985), 24 pp.

 

"Translation of Ms. Firkowicz 2., Hebrew-Arabic Collection, No. 1345 (Salman ben Yeruham on Ps.                30:10 regarding Jews on the Temple Mount)," apud F.E. Peters, Jerusalem (Princeton: Princeton                University Press, 1985), 193-4.

 

 

Critical Reviews

 

Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources. ed. Olivia Remie                 Constable, La coronica 27.2 (Spring 1999): 191-93.

 

Between Muslim and Jew: The Problem of Symbiosis under Early Islam, by Steven M. Wasserstrom, The                American Historical Review (June 1998): 934-35.

 

Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition: Arabic Themes in Hebrew Andalusian Poetry 

by Arie Schippers, The Jewish Quarterly Review 87 (1997): 369-72.

 

 The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel and the Soul by Raymond P. Scheindlin,                 Speculum 69 (1994): 562-64.

 

Studies in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew Poetics [Israel Oriental Studies XI], ed. Sasson                 Somekh, Journal of the American Oriental Society 114 (1994): 112-113.

 

The Hebrew Girdle Poem (Muwashshah) in the Middle Ages [Hebrew] by Tova Rosen-Moked, Jewish                Quarterly Review 80 (1990): 380-383.

 

Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature by Alan Mintz, Modern Judaism 7 (1987): 330-

333.

 

Poetics of Mediaeval Hebrew Literature According to Moshe ibn Ezra [Hebrew] by Joseph Dana, Jewish

Quarterly Review 76 (1986): 373-374.

 

A Social and Religious History of the Jews (1200-1650) Volume XVIII: The Ottoman Empire, Ethiopia,

Persia, India and China by Salo Wittmayer Baron, Iranian Studies (Spring-Summer 1984): 320-322.

 

Miscellaneous Publications

 

“The Moors,” New York University Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Andalusia:

Approaches to Islamic Spain Curricular Enrichment Program Website

 

“Jews of Cuba---a Brief Historical Sketch,” Contemporary Cuban Art Exhibit by Jewish Cuban Artists

(p.3) Cornell University Hillel & The Latin American Studies Program [March 2000].

 

"The Other 1492," Arts and Sciences Newsletter, Cornell University (Fall 1992), 4.

 

"Isaac Rabinowitz, 1909-1988," Newsletter of the American Oriental Society (Number 8 [October 1989],

10-13.

 

"Isaac Rabinowitz: A Scholar's Life," in Isaac Rabinowitz, A Witness Forever: Ancient Israel's Perception

of Literature and the Resultant Hebrew Bible, ed. Ross Brann and David I. Owen (Bethesda, Md: CDL Press, 1994), 145-148.

 

Current Research (in Progress)

 

Co-editor with Adam Sutcliffe, Dialogues with the Past and Present: Jewish Cultural Formation from the

Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (in progress; to be submitted to Yale University Press)

 

“Overdetermining Genres (A Review Essay onThe Embroidered Coat [Hebrew; 3 vols.] by Israel Levin)”

to appear in Prooftexts             

 

(with Angel Saenz-Badillos) “Shelomoh Bonafed, the Last Hebrew Poet of Sefarad,”  to appear in

Dialogues with the Past and Present: Jewish Cultural Formation from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Yale University Press)

 

“Hafsah and Abu Jacfar: A Twelfth-Century Andalusi Woman Reads and Rewrites the Arabic Love Lyric,”

preparing for submission to the Journal of Arabic Literature

 

 

HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

Maurice Amado Foundation Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

(Medieval and Renaissance Poetry), 1998-99

 

Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies, Cornell University (1998-  )

 

John K. Walsh Award, Modern Language Association, Division on Medieval Spanish Language and

Literature for “Semu’el ibn Sason y su poesia hebrea en la Castilla del siglo XIV,” co-authored with Angel Saenz-Badillos and Judit Targarona [La coronica 24] (1996)

 

Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell

University (1996)

 

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1993-94)          

 

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1993-94)

 

1992 Maurice Amado Foundation National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Studies for The

Compunctious Poet

 

Humanities Faculty Research Grant, Cornell University (1987; 1988)

 

Grant-in-Aid of Research, Lucius N. Littauer Foundation (1986; 1987; 1989)

 

NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (1985)

 

New York University Presidential Fellowship for Junior Faculty (1985)

 

Travel Grant, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University (1983)

 

NEH Summer Stipend (1983)

 

James C. Healy Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in the Arts, New York University (1982)

 

Lane Cooper Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (1980-81)

 

Doctoral Dissertation Grant, National Foundation for Jewish Culture (1978-79)

 

Doctoral Examinations Grant, National Foundation for Jewish Culture (1977-78)

 

NDFL Fellowship in Arabic (NDEA Title VI) (1975-77)

 

Summer Fellow, Center for Arabic Study Abroad, American University in Cairo (1975)

 

University Scholarship, New York University (1974-75)

 

Phi Beta Kappa, University of California at Berkeley (1971)

 

Bnai Zion Award, University of California at Berkeley (1971)

 

Honors at Entrance, University of California at Berkeley (1967)

 

 

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

 

Keynote Address, “Reflections on Jewish Culture and Identity in Medieval Iberia,” Wine Women and Song,

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Conference on medieval Iberian literature, University of California at Berkeley, April 2001 [invited]

 

“Al-Andalus: A Historical Introduction” and Chair, Andalusian Aesthetics: the Artistic Legacy of Islamic

Spain, the 2000 Hagop Kevorkian Symposium in Near Eastern Art and Civilization, Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University (March 3, 2000) [invited]

 

“Mapping Representations of Jews and Muslims,” University of Pennsylvania, Center for Advanced Judaic

Studies Annual Colloquium, Dialogues with Past and Present (April 1999)

 

“Arabo-Islamic Culture,” The Debate about Women, Men, and Gender in Medieval Culture, Fordham

University (March 1999) [invited]

 

“Reading Muslim Authors on an Eleventh-Century Jew of Granada,” University of Pennsylvania Hillel

Faculty Seminar (December 1998)

 

“Situational Marginality in the Arabic Representations of Samuel ibn Naghrila,” University of                Pennsylvania, Center for Judaic Studies Seminar, October 1998 [invited]

 

"Andalusian Moorings," Worlds on Worlds: Comparative Literature and Globalization, University of

Oregon (May 1997) [invited]

 

“New Reflections on The Compunctious Poet, Medieval Studies Club: Columbia University,                 University of Pennsylvania, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York (May 1997) [invited]

 

“Power in the Portrayal: Hispano-Arabic Representations of Samuel Ha-Nagid,” UCLA, Department of

                History (April 97) [invited]

 

“Rethinking the Foundations of Sefardi Literary Culture: The Case of Judah Halevi,” Northwestern

University, Department of Religion  (March 97) [invited]

 

"The Jews in Muslim Spain: A Problematic Literary Identity," Judios en tierras de Islam, Consejo  

Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and the Universidad de Alacala de Henares (February 97) [invited]

 

“Judah Halevi---A Transgressive or Foundational Figure in Sefardi Culture?” Universidad Complutense de                Madrid, Departamento de Hebreo (February 97) [invited]

 

"Images of Jews in Hispano-Arabic Literature," Universidad de Castillia-La Mancha, The Museum of

Toledo, Spain  (Sept 1996 ) [invited]

 

"Judah Halevi---A Transgressive Figure in Hispano-Jewish Culture," UCLA Center for Medieval and                Renaissance Studies (January 1996) [invited]

 

"Textualizing Ambivalence in Islamic Spain: Arabic Representations of Ismacil ibn Naghrila," Languages

of Power in Islamic Spain, Cornell University (November 1994)

 

 "Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain," 29th International Congress on Medieval

Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 1994)

 

"Textualizing Ambivalence: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain," Christians, Muslims

and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Interaction and Cultural Change, University of Notre Dame (February 1994) [invited]

 

"Historicizing Genre in the Medieval Lyric," [Roundtable] MLA Annual Meeting, (December 1993)

[invited]

 

 "Power and Poetry: Constructions of Exile in Hispano-Hebrew and Hispano-Arabic Elegies," Circa 1492:

The Impact of the Reconquista on Muslims and Jews, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (November 1992) [invited]

 

"Power and Poetry," 1492: Middle Eastern and North Africa Perspectives, University of Michigan

(October 1992) [invited]

 

"The Profane and the Sacred: Hebrew Poetry and Prose in the Middle Ages," SUNY New Paltz (October

1992) [invited]

 

"Hispano-Hebrew Literature and the Cultural Ethos of the Jews of Spain," Hornstein Institute Brandeis

University, The Jews of Spain: Community, Conflict and Continuity (1992) [invited]

 

"The Other 1492," Goodbye, Columbus: Media, Historiography and Representation, Cornell University,                Society for the Humanities (1992)

 

"Constructions of Exile," En Torno a Sefarad, Encuentro internacional de historiadores, Universidad

Nacional de Educacion a distancia, Toledo, Spain (1991) [invited]

 

 "Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Hispano-Hebrew Rhymed Prose," The                Three Cultures of Medieval Spain in Perspective: A Workshop-Remembrance of 1492, Cornell                University (1991)

 

"Constructions of Exile in the Hebrew Poetry of Muslim and Christian Spain," 2nd International

Sephardic Studies Conference, SUNY Binghamton (1991)

 

 "Representations of Muslims and Jews in Judah al-Harizi's Tahkemoni," Wayne State University                International Conference: The Jews of Islamic Lands (1990) [invited]

 

"The Hebrew Bible and Andalusian Hebrew Poetry," Cornell University (1986) [invited]

 

"Literature as the Language of Politics in Israel," NYU-Princeton Summer Institute (1986)

 

 "Judah Halevi: The Compunctious Poet," Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston   (1985)

 

 "Closing Remarks," The Dead Sea Scrolls Conference in Archaeology and History: International                Conference in Memory of Professor Yigael Yadin, New York University (1985)

 

 "The Hebrew Bible and Andalusian Hebrew Poetry: Literary Consciousness and Literary Imagination,"                19th Annual Conference, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY                Binghamton: The Bible in the Middle Ages: Its Influence on Literature and Art (1985)

 

"The Compunctious Poet," University of California at Berkeley (1984) [invited]

 

 "The Compunctious Poet," American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, Dallas (1983)

 

"The Hebrew Poet in Muslim Spain as Equivocator," American Oriental Society 194th Meeting, Baltimore                (1983)

 

 "The Jewish Experience under the Orbit of Islam," NYU-Princeton Summer Institute: The Rebirth of the                Near East Under Islam (1983)

 

 "Ambivalence toward Hebrew Poetry in Jewish Andalusia," 12th Medieval Workshop: The Mozarabs,                University of British Columbia at Vancouver (1982)

 

"The Ethos of Andalusian Jewry as Reflected in Medieval Hebrew Poetry and Judeo-Arabic Poetics,"                American Oriental Society 193rd Meeting, Austin (1982)

 

 

CORNELL UNIVERSITY SERVICE

               

                Cornell Adult University, Millenarians and Millenarianism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

(with Professor Laurence Moore) [7/00]

Study Tour Leader, On the Edge of the Muslim West (Morocco), Cornell Adult University [5/00]

West Campus Planning Group, 1998-2000

                College of Arts and Sciences, Clark Teaching Award Selection Committee, 1998; 2000

                CU Hillel Faculty Advisor, 1997-98

                Harry Caplan Fellowship Selection Committee, 1997

                Admissions Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1997, 1998

                College of Engineering Teaching Award Selection Committee, 1997, 1998

                Humanities Council: 1992-93; 97-2000

                Faculty Advisor, Arab-Jewish Students Dialogue Group, 97-98

                Faculty Sponsor, Persian Students Association, 1996-98

                Faculty Sponsor, Anti-Racism Action League Club, 1997-98

                Cornell 101 (Freshmen Experience Pilot Program), 1996

                Faculty Sponsor, Jewish Issues Discussion Club, 1995-97

Study Tour Leader, The Three Worlds of Medieval Spain Adult University [10/95]

                Acting Director,  Religious Studies Program, 1995-96

                Steering Committee, Religious Studies Program: 1995-

                Writing in the Majors Program [NES 339]: Fall 1994; Spring 96; Spring 98

                Near Eastern Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies: 1994-96

                Cornell Adult University: guest lecturer, The Twelfth Century, 1994

                Faculty Seminar in Writing Instruction: 1992

                Near Eastern Studies, Department Chair, 1989-93; 96-2000

                Freshman Colloquium, College of Arts and Sciences: 1989

                Faculty Supervisor for J.S. Knight Writing Program: 1987; 1989-1993; 1996-97

                Chair, M. Tenenbaum Jewish Studies Prize Committee: 1989       

                Faculty Fellow, Campus Life: 1988-89, 91-98

                Steering Committee, Program of Jewish Studies: 1988-91; 92-

                Director of Graduate Studies, Near Eastern Studies: 1988; 1991; 1998

                Islam and the Struggle for World Justice Conference Planning Committee: 1988

                Instructor, Holland International Living Center Seminar: 1987

                Faculty Sponsor, Bernard Lewis, A.D. White Professor-at-Large: 1987

                Coordinator, NES Brown Bag Lunch Series: 1987

                Religion and Literature Planning Group, Religious Studies Program, 1992-93

                Program Member: Religious Studies; Jewish Studies; Medieval Studies                                

 

 

CORNELL UNIVERSITY COURSES TAUGHT

 

Critical Reading and Writing (Eng 131.02)

Introduction to Near Eastern Civilization (NES 197; 198)

The Hebrew Literary Tradition (NES 231)

The Lyrics of Love and Death: Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Poetry in Translation (NES 233)

Jews and Arabs: Cultures in Confluence and Conflict (NES 234)

Israel: Literature and Society  (NES 236)

Cultural History of the Jews of Spain (NES 239)

Hebrew Bible and Arabic Qur’an in Comparative Perspective (NES 299)

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Comparative Perspective (NES 293)

Advanced Hebrew (NES 301-302)

Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Spain: Literature and Society (NES 339)

A Mediterranean Society and its Culture: the Jews under Classical Islam (NES 371)

Medieval Biblical Hebrew Exegesis [NES 428]

Medieval  Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew Poetics [NES 432]

Medieval Hispano-Hebrew Poetry and Prose (g) [NES 620]

Medieval Biblical Hebrew Exegesis (g) [NES 628]

Islamic Spain (g) [NES 639]

A Mediterranean Society and its Culture (g) [NES 671]

Medieval Arabic Literary Texts (g) [NES 691-692]

Medieval Hebrew Literary Texts  (g) [NES 691-692]

 

Ph.D. Dissertations Chair and Committee Member

 

David Shasha (M.A., NES 1989) [Chair]; cAzza Madian (Music, 1991); Scott Noegel (NES, 1994); David Regenspan (M.A. NES 1995) [Chair]; Susan Van Deventer (Romance Studies, 1997); Ann Brener (NES, 1999) [Chair]; Yoon Jong Yoo (NES, 1999); Yiyi Chen (NES, 2000)

 

In progress

 

Omer Bajwa (M.A., Communications)

Vincent Williamson (Romance Studies)

Jeff Diamond (Romance Studies)

Deborah J. Miller (History)

Colin Smith (NES)

Ronit Seter (Music)

 

 

                                                                                                                                    9/2000