adam mahler
translator and scholar
of the medieval to modern
iberian world
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academia.edu
curriculum vitæ
“En este som de negrada”: Sounds of Blackness in the Medieval Iberian Lyric, La corónica, 52.1
“Ai flores, ai flores do verde pino”: The Ecopoetics of the Galician-Portuguese Pine Forest, Speculum, 99.3
Camilo Pessanha’s Missing City: Race, Poetry, and Urban Writing in Portuguese Macau, Portuguese Studies, 39.1
I’m also a literary translator from the Spanish and Portuguese. My first book of translations, the Macau-based poet Camilo Pessanha’s Clepsydra and Other Poems, was published in 2022 with Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth. My annotated translation and edition of Shem Tov Ardutiel's Moral Proverbs and Other Old Castilian Poems Written by Jews is forthcoming with Harvard University Press's Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.
My research and translations have been supported by grants from the US–Portugal Fulbright Commission, Spain's Ministry of Sport and Culture, and PEN America. My articles have appeared or are forthcoming in PMLA, Speculum, La corónica, and Hispanic Review, among others. I am a regular contributor to the Gulbenkian Foundation's Colóquio/Letras, for which I review contemporary Portuguese poetry.
I have an abiding interest in Judeo-Spanish, aka Ladino, and the many-layered cultural inheritance of Sephardic Jews. At Harvard and UC–Berkeley, I designed and taught the first-ever courses on Ladino language and literature. I am in the process of adapting the materials I designed for both courses into a textbook. I welcome contact with scholars and educators interested in promoting and preserving Ladino in its many forms.
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