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Name

Nadia R. Altschul

Institution or Other Affiliation

Georgetown University / University of Glasgow

About

Nadia is the author of Geographies of Philological Knowledge: Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic (Chicago 2012, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize honorable mention), La literatura, el autor y la crítica textual (Pliegos 2005), and co-editor of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “The Middle Ages” Outside Europe (Johns Hopkins 2009).
Her new book project examines the medieval and oriental character attributed to Spanish and Portuguese colonization in the Americas.