Please join us for a book presentation by author Anita Savo, in conversation with Nick Jones, Nuria Sánchez Matias, and Isabella Bernstein.
Monday, March 2 in HQ 107
4:00pm-5:30pm
Anita Savo is Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University, where she teaches courses on medieval Iberian literature and cross-cultural exchange among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Middle Ages. She also teaches in BU’s MFA program in Literary Translation. Her research explores how medieval literature transmits ideas about identity and authority; how the paradigms of Iberian Studies and Mediterranean Studies can help us rethink the Spanish literary canon; and how early books and manuscripts can shed light on medieval literary culture.
Her first book, Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority (U of Toronto P, 2024), tracks the emergence of a concept of authorship in medieval Castilian literature through the literary career of fourteenth-century nobleman Juan Manuel. She is also co-editor, with Mario Cossío Olavide and Daniela Santonocito, of A Companion to Don Juan Manuel (forthcoming with Brill in 2026), a volume of essays that situates Juan Manuel and his works in their Iberian and Mediterranean contexts. She is currently working on a book titled Algarabía: Language Anxiety in Medieval Castile, which investigates how Christian Castilian writers reshaped the cultural legacy of Arabic in Spain through their depictions of the language and its speakers. Her articles and book chapters examine issues of religion, race, gender, and authority in medieval Iberian literature.
