(ON LEAVE 2008-2009)
Simone Pinet, Associate Professor of Spanish and Medieval Studies, received an MA and PhD in Hispanic Literatures from Harvard University. Before coming to Cornell, she taught at Yale University. She teaches medieval and renaissance Spanish literature, and is interested in 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 (under review)
The Task of the Cleric (in preparation/research)
Edited volumes
Theories of Medieval Iberia, special issue of diacritics, coedited with Oscar Martín (forthcoming July 2008)
The Alhambra Ceilings: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, special issue of Medieval Encounters, coedited with Cynthia Robinson (forthcoming December 2008)
Articles in books:
“Los tapices de la Historia de Amadís de Gaula,” in Amadís de Gaula: 1508-2008 (quinientos años de libros de caballerías), catalogue of the exhibit at the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, October 2008-January 2009
“The Languages of Babylon: Spain’s Alexander,” (forthcoming in Alexander the Great in the Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Stephanie Schmitt and Markus Stock eds., University of Toronto Press)
“La traducción de lo visible: un tapiz del Amadís de Gaula” in Los bienes cuando no son comunicados no son bienes, ed. Axayacatl Campos García Rojas, Mariana Masera and María Teresa Miaja. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-El Colegio de México, 2006
“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), pp. 469-476.
Articles in journals:
“Shipwrecks, Spectators, Narrators and Knights: On Certain Philosophical Episodes in Books of Chivalry,” (in preparation for Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Chivalry, special issue of eHumanista, Jesús Rodríguez Velasco and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, eds.)
“Walk on the Wild Side,” (forthcoming in special issue of Medieval Encounters)
“Towards a Political Economy of the Libro de Alexandre” (forthcoming in Theories of Medieval Iberia, special issue of diacritics)
“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, Vol. 33.2 (Spring 2005): 195-208. (John K. Walsh Prize for best article in 2005)
“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)
“On the Subject of Fiction: Islands and The Emergence of The Novel,” in Robert A. Davidson and Joan Ramon Resina, eds., New Coordinates: Spatial Mappings, National Trajectories, special issue of diacritics, 33.3-4 (2003): 173-187.
“Theatrum mundi: Cervantes, el teatro y la cartografía,” Theatralia. Revista de Poética del Teatro (2003) 5:133-142.
“Babel historiada: un episodio del Libro de Alexandre,” in Literatura y conocimiento medieval. Actas de las VIII Jornadas Medievales, Lillian von der Walde, Concepción Company, Aurelio González, eds., (México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, El Colegio de México, 2003), 371-389.
“El Amadís como arte de marear: la Insola No Fallada,” Medievalia (2000), 25-34.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Spanish Literature of the Middle Ages
Mester de clerecía
Prose Fiction of the Golden Age
Books of Chivalry and the Modern Novel
Medieval and Renaissance Cartography
Critical Theory
Theories of Fiction
Theories of Space
Spanish Language and Culture
RECENT COURSES
The Task of the Cleric
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
Independent studies (graduate and undergraduate):
Sovereignty, Pedagogy, Nation-building in Late Medieval Spain: Cultures in Dialogue (Spring 2007)
Short Prose Fiction of Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Fall 2004)
Selections in Medieval Spanish Literature (Spring 2004)
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