Simone Pinet
Associate Professor of Spanish and Medieval Studies

(ON LEAVE 2008-2009)

Simone Pinet (Ph.D. 2002 Harvard University, A.M. 1998 Harvard University, B.A. 1996 UNAM) is Associate Professor of Spanish and Medieval Studies. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in medieval and renaissance Spanish literature and culture; the approach in these courses tends to be interdisciplinary, addressing literary cultures, theories of space, poetics, books of chivalry and prose fiction in general, theories of fiction, cartography, and critical theory.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

El baladro del sabio Merlín: Notas para la historia y caracterización del personaje en España. México: JGH, 1997. Bibliotheca Litterarum Humaniorum, Krinein, no. 2.

Archipelagoes: Insularity and Fiction in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

The Task of the Cleric: Three Studies on the 'Libro de Alexandre' (in progress).

Courting the Alhambra: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Hall of Justice, coedited with Cynthia Robinson (Brill: Leiden, 2009).

Edited volumes

Theories of Medieval Iberia, coedited with Oscar Martín, special issue of diacritics 36.3 (Fall 2006).

Courting the Alhambra: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Hall of Justice, coedited with Cynthia Robinson, special issue of Medieval Encounters 14.2-3 (2008).

               
Book chapters

“Los tapices de la Historia de Amadís de Gaula,” in Amadís de Gaula: 1508 (quinientos años de libros de caballerías), Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España/Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2008 [October 9, 2008-January 19, 2009], 403-405.

“The Languages of Babylon: Spain’s Alexander,” in Alexander the Great in the Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Stephanie Schmitt and Markus Stock, eds., University of Toronto Press (forthcoming).

"The Genealogy of Chivalric Monsters: Some Sixteenth-Century Spanish Examples," in Gender and Science in the Early Modern World, Kathleen Perry Long, ed. (forthcoming).

“Literature and Cartography in Spain: Etymologies and Conjectures,” in The History of Cartography: The Renaissance, vol. 3, part I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, 469-476.

“La traducción de lo visible: un tapiz del Amadís de Gaula,” in Los bienes cuando no son comunicados no son bienes, Axayácatl Campos García Rojas, Mariana Masera, and María Teresa Miaja, eds. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-El Colegio de México, 2006, 107-117.


Journal articles

“Introduction," with Cynthia Robinson, to Courting the Alhambra: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Hall of Justice, special issue of Medieval Encounters 14.2-3 (2008).

 “Walk on the Wild Side,” Medieval Encounters 14.2-3 (2008): 367-387.

"Why Theory?" with Oscar Martín, introduction to Theories of Medieval Iberia, special issue of diacritics, 36.3 (Fall 2006): 3-6.

 “Towards a Political Economy of the Libro de Alexandre,” in Theories of Medieval Iberia, special issue of diacritics 36.3 (Fall 2006): 44-63.

“The Knight, the Kings, and the Tapestries: The Amadís Series,” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 30.3 (2006): 537-554.

“Para leer el espacio en el Poema de Mio Cid: breviario teórico,” La corónica, 33.2 (Spring 2005): 195-208.

“Será todo en cabo a un lugar: Cartografías del Libro de Alexandre,” Actes del X Congrés internacional de l’Associació Hispànica de literatura medieval, Rafael Alemany, Josep Lluís Martos, and Josep Miguel Manzanaro, eds. Valencia: Institut Universitari de Filologia Valenciana, 2005).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medieval Iberian literatures and cultures
Medieval and renaissance cartography
Mester de clerecía
Books of chivalry and the modern novel
Medieval and renaissance fiction
Art/literature interactions
Rhetoric, historiography, poetics
Critical theory

COURSES TAUGHT

The Task of the Cleric
The Seven Deadly Sins
Medieval Spanish Literature: A Graduate Survey
Theory of the Novel: Modernity’s Subjects
Mappings in Medieval and Modern Hispanisms (co-taught with B. Bosteels)
Fictions of Wonder: Variations of the Marvelous in Hispanic Literatures
Faith, Love, and Adventure in Medieval Spain
Theater of the Golden Age