S. J.
Pearce
Research Topic
In the Language of All Nations: Invention of the Arabic Translator in Thirteenth- Century Castile and Provence
Bio
S.J. Pearce is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese Langauges and Literatures at New York University. Her current monograph project is tentatively titled In the Taifa Kingdoms: The Medieval Poetics of Modern Nationalism. Her first monograph, The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2017), is the recipient of the La Córonica International Book Award, presented annually at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI.
Pearce received her PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University in 2011. She has previously held research fellowships at the Katz Center (2012–13) and at the Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan (2018–19). Together with Adam Bursi and Hamza Zafer, she co-edited His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror (Brill, 2020), and she is the editor of the forthcoming volume Convivencia: The History of an Idea under contract with Lockwood Press.
