Education and Academic Degrees:

1982: Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union [Domincan School of Philosohy and Theology] and University of California, Berkeley
Areas: Medieval religious and intellectual history, Medieval Jewish-Christian relations, Paleography and textual criticism.
1976: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Emphasis: Medieval Spanish literature
Collaterals: Italian literature, French literature, Romance philology.

Research Appointments and Honors:

2009: Awarded a Research Expense Grant from Boston College (Summer-Fall)                                                                                                  1994-95: Visiting Research Scholar, Université Charles de Gaulle, Lille, France
1990: Visiting Research Associate, Westfield College, University of London (summer)
1989-90: Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies. Princeton

Publications:

	"Playing and Praying: What's Luck Got to Do with It?" In: Alan Wolfe and Erik C. Owens, eds. Gambling: Mapping the American Moral Landscape.  Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2009, pp. 291-97, 439-40.
	Alborayque. 2 Vols. 1: Estudio preliminar, edición y notas. 2: Facsímil. Biblioteca de Barcarrota, no. 6. Editora Regional de Extremadura. 2005.
	"Alfonso de Valladolid" [A Study of His Hebrew and Spanish Manuscripts]. In Diccionario filológico de literatura medieval española. Eds. Carlos Alvar and José Manuel Lucía Megías. Madrid Castalia, 2002. 140-52.
	"‘Alea Jacta Est’: At the Gaming Table with Alfonso the Learned." The Journal of Medieval History 24 (1998): 333-45.

Lectures:

“A Converso Wannabe: Hernando el Marrano and Late-Fifteenth-Century Anti-Jewish Satire.” Forty-Seventh Midwest Modern Language Association Convention. Milwaukee, 11 November, 2005.

“Funny, They Don’t Look Jewish’: Confusing Converts in Medieval Spain.” Inaugural lecture of Jewish Studies Program, Boston College. 11 October, 2005. Available on “Front Row,” Boston College’s series of public lectures.

“Les origines historiques et légendaires du Cid: du Poema de mio Cid à Le Cid de Corneille” (French Library & Alliance Française, Boston, February, 2004).

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