María Rosa Menocal

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María Rosa Menocal is a renowned scholar of medieval culture and history. Menocal earned a B.A., M.A., and Ph. D from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1986, she taught Romance philology at Penn.

In 2002, Menocal wrote an acclaimed book called "The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain," which has been translated into many languages, including an introduction by Yale Sterling Professor Harold Bloom. Menocal is currently director of the Yale Whitney Humanities Center.

[edit] Other Publications

• The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History: A Forgotten Heritage
• Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccacio
• Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric
• She is the co-editor of The Literature of Al-Andalus in the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature series.

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• Words without Borders, The Online Magazine of International Literature [1]
• The Culture of Translation [2]

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