Assistant Professor of Spanish
Anita Savo teaches courses on medieval Iberian literatures and cultures, with an emphasis on cross-cultural exchange among Christians, Jews and Muslims. Her research explores how medieval literature transmits ideas about identity and authority; how the paradigms of Iberian Studies and Mediterranean Studies can help us reimagine literary canons; and how early books and manuscripts shed light on the readers and writers of the past.
Her book Portraying Authorship: Juan Manuel and the Rhetoric of Authority (U of Toronto P, 2024) tracks the development of ideas about authorship in medieval Iberia through a case study of the prolific fourteenth-century writer Juan Manuel. 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 Arabic language and its speakers. She has also published on translation and pseudotranslation in medieval Iberian literature; film and TV adaptations of medieval legends; and nineteenth-century editions and translations of medieval texts.
She has taught an iteration of TL551 Topics in Translation on translation and storytelling in the medieval Mediterranean.