Born in Cuba and raised in Philadelphia, Maria Rosa Menocal received her Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Bryn Mawr College and at Pennsylvania and then, for the last 16 years, at Yale, where she is now the R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and director of the Whitney Humanities Center. Author of the critically acclaimed Shards of Love , a provocative treatment of the origins of European lyric poetry, Professor Menocal has published widely in the field of medieval literature and culture. Her co-edited volume, The Literature of Al-Andalus in the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature series, is a recent example of her special interest in the vibrant mixed cultures of Spain. Maria Rosa Menocal is also the mother of two children, and lives mostly in Manhattan, where she cooks and writes, though not always in that order.

Books by María Rosa Menocal

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

by María Rosa Menocal