Henry Berlin

PhD

Henry Berlin.

Henry Berlin

PhD

Henry Berlin

PhD

Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
College of Arts and Sciences

Scholarly Interests

History and theory of the emotions; Medieval rhetoric and poetics; Literature, philosophy and theology; Iberian Studies

Education

  • PhD, Romance Studies, Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Cornell University, 2011
  • MA, Romance Studies, Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, Cornell University, 2009

Selected Publications

  • Alone Together: Poetics of the Passions in Late-Medieval Iberia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Toronto Iberic 59.
  • “The Galician-Portuguese Cantigas, the History of Emotion, and Lyric as Genre.” The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity. Ed. E. Michael Gerli and Ryan Giles. London: Routledge, 2021. 345-62.
  • “Gonçalo Anes Bandarra: The Craft of Prophecy and the Literature of Apocalypse.” Hispanic Issues On Line 23 (2019): 31-54.
  • “Ramon Llull and His Contemporaries.” A Companion to Ramon Llull and Lullism. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, vol. 82. Ed. Amy M. Austin and Mark D. Johnston. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 18-45.
  • “Eucharistic Thought and Imperial Longing in Portugal from Amadeus da Silva’s Apocalypsis Nova (1502) to António Vieira’s História do Futuro (1663-1667).” Beyond Sight: Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200-1750. Ed. Ryan Giles and Steven Wagschal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 225-42.
  • “Alfonso de Madrigal, el Tostado, on the Politics of Friendship.” Hispanic Review 84.2 (2016): 147-69.

Courses Taught

  • SPA509: Poetics of the Passions in Medieval Iberia
  • SPA449: Travel, Trouble, and Truth in Medieval Spanish Literature
  • SPA301: Survey of Spanish Literature: Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
  • SPA207/208: Conversation and Composition

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