Professor, BA, MA, PhD (Harvard)
Room 305 Northrop Frye Hall, (416) 585-4456,
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Josiah Blackmore, Professor of Portuguese & Spanish Studies, holds a PhD from Harvard University. He teaches medieval and early modern Iberian literatures and cultures, and his research interests include Camões and monsters, deviance, and the forbidden in literature and history. He is author of Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa (2009) and Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire (2002). Professor Blackmore has contributed numerous articles to peer-reviewed journals and collections. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Centre for Medieval Studies, Centre for Comparative Literature, the Sexual Diversity Studies and Book History and Print Culture Programs.
Specialty Courses:
| Undergraduate: | Discovery and Conquest: Literature and Nationhood Transatlantic Africa and Brazil Camões |
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| Graduate: | Books and Borders Conquest and Chronicle The Politics of Print |
Selected publications:
- Ed., The Songs of Antonio Botto, trans. by Fernando Pessoa. University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
- Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
- "Imagining the Moor in Medieval Portugal." diacritics 36.3-4 (2006).
- Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
- Ed. Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Duke University Press, 1999.
