Collegiate Affiliation
Director,
Premodern
Spanish & Portuguese Studies

Michelle M. Hamilton is Director of Premodern Studies and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where she offers courses on religious studies, Jewish studies, and Spanish literature and culture. She is also the Editor of La corónica: A journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She has published widely on multi-confessional Iberia. Publications include: Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (16th Century to the Present) (Harvard 2021);  The Study of al-Andalus: The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe  (Harvard 2018); Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript (Brill 2014) and In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies (Vanderbilt 2014). 

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • MA: Hispanic Languages & Literatures, University of California, Davis, 1995 -
  • BA: Spanish Language & Literature, University of Texas, Austin, 1991 -
  • PhD: Spanish (& Arabic) Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley, 2001 -

Specialties

  • Cultural Contact in Medieval Iberia
  • Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
  • Hebrew and Arabic cultures of Europe
  • The Medieval Mediterranean and its Legacy
  • Sephardic Traditions
  • Mediterranean Studies
  • Religious Studies & Philosophies