Nadia Altschul

Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer
Medieval Spanish Literature
and the History of Scholarshi

The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218

Telephone:410-516-8571
E-mail: altschul@jhu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Nadia Altschul received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2002 and has been a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Spanish Medieval Studies in the German and Romance Languages and Literatures Department since then.

Her research focuses on 19th and 20th-century intellectual and disciplinary history, particularly through the lens of Medieval Studies. She has previously engaged with technologies of communication, the development of copyright and modern authorship, and comparative philological histories of Spain, France, and Germany. The present focus of her research is at the intersection of postcolonial studies and medievalism in the Latin American 19th century. Her new book project, “Transatlantic Medievalism: Postcoloniality, Occidentalism, and the European National Epic,” examines Andrés Bello’s medieval scholarship in its relations with postcolonial theory, Romantic medievalism, and Spain as an object of the European Orientalist gaze.

Publications:

Books:

---. La literatura, el autor y la crítica textual. Madrid: Pliegos, 2005.

--- and Kathleen Davis, eds. Medievalisms and the (Post)Colony. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, forthcoming.

Essays:

---. “Postcolonialism and the Study of the Middle Ages.” History Compass 6 (2008)

---. “On the Shores of Nationalism: Latin American Philology, Local Histories and Global Designs.” La corónica 35.2 (2007): 159-172.

--- and Bradley Nelson. “Transatlantic Discordances: The Problem of Philology.” Hispanic Issues Online 2 (2007): 55-63.

---. “The Genealogy of Scribal Versions: A ‘Fourth Way’ for Medieval Editorial Theory.” Textual Cultures 1.2 (2006): 114-136.

---. “Un acercamiento cultural a la edición de textos medievales: método y mentalidad nacional en Alemania, Francia y España.” Neophilologus 90.3 (2006): 383-399.

---. “Difracción, collation externa y diasistemas: de la cultura del manuscrito y la crítica textual.” La corónica 32.1 (2003): 187-204

Forthcoming:

---. “Andrés Bello and the Poem of the Cid: Latin America, Occidentalism, and the Foundations of Spain’s ‘National Philology.’” Medievalisms in the (Post)Colony. Eds. Davis and Altschul.

---. “What is Philology? Culture Studies and Ecdotics in Comparative Perspective.” Recovering Philology: Philology and its Histories. Ed. Sean Gurd.

---. “La nueva crisis de la filología editorial: cultura del manuscrito, scribal version o ¿qué es hoy la ‘literatura’ medieval?” Medievalismo/s. De la disciplina y otros espacios imaginados. Ed. César Domínguez. Spec. Issue Revista de poética medieval (forthcoming, 2008).

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