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Dinner with Professor Maria Rosa Menocal at the American Club (March 25)

Dear member

You are invited to dinner with Yale Professor Maria Rosa Menoca. She is a professor in the Humanities department at Yale and alumni of Penn.

Dinner is on March 25th and please see the following flyer for details.

http://www.pennhk.com/event_download/Dinner_Professor_Maria_Rosa_Menocal_Yale_Club_Flyer.pdf Areas of Interest: Comparative medieval lyric; the intellectual history of the study of the Arabic and Hebrew aspects of medieval Spanish identity; the formation of Castilian culture in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Her books include The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History: A Forgotten Heritage (1987) Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Boccaccio (1991) and Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric (1994). The Literature of Al-Andalus in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature series was co-edited with Raymond Scheindlin and Michael Sells, and in 2002 Little, Brown published The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Christians, and Jews Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, which has since been translated into eleven languages.

Cheers

Penn Club

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